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hello everyone i'm amelia in today's video we're going to cover the medium trot and the
trot lengthening so let me know in the comments if you're showing what level you're showing at first
level you have trot lengthenings at second level and all the way up to the grand prix you have
medium trot the biggest difference between a trot lengthening and a medium trot is the amount of
collection and uphill balance but the basic idea is the same that both in a trot lengthening and
in a medium trout you want to get a longer stride without the horse getting quicker and so in order
to get a longer stride without the horse getting quicker you really have to maintain suppleness
your horse has to be really supple and round and loose in the back so give this video a thumbs up
if you're excited let me know in the comments if you're showing and if this video is helpful also
i'm going to be doing a free webinar on may 1st to help get you guys ready for show season be sure
to sign up for that in the links below and check us out on facebook so this is mercurio and we're
going to demonstrate our trot lengthening our medium trot he has a really nice trot lengthening
although sometimes he gets a little carried away and i have trouble bringing him back from it
so the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to start out
working on a circle and doing some transitions in the trot on a circle so
i'm just going to take up the contact here and i'm going to pick up the trot
and just kind of establish the tempo that i want make sure that i am riding an accurate 20 meter
circle make sure that i'm happy kind of with the frame and then from here what i'm gonna do
is i'm gonna ask him to get just a little bigger bigger bigger in the trot and then
come back again half hour half hop half hot half hot and again bigger bigger bigger there good boy
and then come back again half i'll give half i'll give half i'll give half i'll give and
again forward forward forward forward back half half half half all good so what i'm doing to get
him to go more forward is leg press press press press with my calf what i'm doing to
come back is half a half hold half half out with my rings make sure to do this in both directions
and don't overdo it you know like the medium trot the trot lengthening is hard on your horse so
this isn't something that you want to come out and drill every day you want to really work on
suppleness and the basic roundness and throughness of your horse
um i do not drill this every day so again forward bigger come come come come half hold half
forward forward forward forward half off that fall half hot so now i feel like okay i have
pretty good control of that on the circle line the circle really helps because you have a little bend
in your horse so you don't have to pull so much the next step is to put it on the
diagonal so the first thing is to ride a good a really good corner like i wasn't so happy with
those corners so i really want to think about bending in the corner he needs to be off my
inside leg straight across the short side bending in the next corner get him straight
and take a minute to get your horse straight and uphill and then no then develop your medium trot
and then to come back from the trot i'm going to make a circle because he got just a little
bit strong on me there so i'm just gonna practice that again the most important thing
for your medium trot and for your trot lengthenings is the beginning and the end of it so
neither one of those was very good this last time we're going to try it again so i'm going to go
through the corner bend now i have traffic so i'm just going to turn it v instead get him straight
and up and then forward forward good follow and ho hat fault half pulled path out good boy
that one was really good good job buddy so you could see that one was really good because the
beginning good boy the beginning i really took my time i had a good corner
i got him straight towards the letter i took that time to get him uphill and then i started it and
that's really important like you're better off to start your medium trot or your trot lengthening
just a little bit on the late side but to do it well rather than thinking like the second you
turn oh shoot i have to start it and then when you start it's kind of sloppy and out of balance so
really make sure to have a good corner get your horse straight get your horse uphill
then start your medium trot i also you noticed how i was practicing it on the three quarter diagonal
or the half diagonal but again you don't want to just practice like full diagonal after
full diagonal working it on a circle where you go a little forward and a little back
work on it on a half diagonal or a little shorter line because again it's
it's more useful to do little short bouts and to work on the transitions like go a little come back
go a little come back as opposed to just drilling sending your horse forward
for the whole diagonal so hopefully this gave you guys some ideas to improve your scores this
summer on your trot lengthenings and again if if your hat if your horse just gets quicker
and they don't lengthen work on suppleness work on leg yields work on stretching your horse down
i'll link some videos below that work on that but that's really going to be the best thing
to help your trot lengthening it is working on getting a horse more supple and more through
working on the lengthening itself isn't really necessarily going to help
so thanks for watching and we'll see you next wednesday for another video goodbye mercurio
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