hello everyone today's video is about the half pass i've had a lot of requests for a half past
video half passes are hard and they can be really awkward to ride at first so definitely you want to
make sure that your horse leg yields well and also that your horse bends well those are kind of the
two prerequisites before you start working on half passes you also want to be able to ride a shoulder
and you need to be able to add a circle you also need to be able to ride haunches in or traver
before you start working on your half passes and if you're having a lot of trouble with
your half passes always go back to those basic exercises so basically the aids for a half pass
if i'm going to ride a left half pass the aids for the half pass are i'm going to have my
inside leg at the girth my outside leg is going to be behind the girth so when i say at the girth i
mean like about here is at the girth where my toe is at the girth so this is not at the girth at the
girth is kind of your neutral leg position behind the girth is about here and in the half pass you
actually kind of bring like your whole thigh a little bit back to help move the shoulder over
for the half pass so my outside leg is back here now if i'm riding again a left half pass
it's really important that as my horse is moving to the left that i'm sitting over my left seat
bone so centrifugal force is going to kind of throw you over to the right but to ride a left
half pass you want to be sitting on your left seat bone left leg at the girth right leg behind the
girth with your reins your left brain is telling the horse to look in the direction of travel and
the way that i set up the half pass for you guys in the videos is i have you go on the diagonal
first and then develop punches in so that will help you to get that bend and your outside reign
helps to bring the shoulder over in the half pass so those are the aids for the half pass be sure
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and we're going to get started with showing you guys some exercises to help you with your half
pass the big difference between leg yield and half pass is that half half has bend in the body
so i'm going to start getting my horse ready to ride a half bath by doing some shoulder in
and some circles boy good boy and then
good boy the way that i'm going to prepare him for the half past is we're gonna do some haunches in
oh boy so half past is basically just haunted in on the diagonal
so you should be able to see here how his haunches are to the inside he's bending around my left leg
and when i ride a half pass i'm basically just going to think about
riding haunted then on a diagonal so i'm going to turn and go straight to f
now i'm going to make haunted in and keep his shoulders going straight towards the letter f
bending flexed and left i need to be sitting to the left flexion left sitting to the left there
so same thing for the right haunted and right and always it's a good idea to school your haunches in
before you try your half pass because haunted then really is the preparation for half pass
and then to ride the half half i'm going to just go straight to k and then bend him at the body
and make pontiff in toward k now i'm sitting on my right c bone i'm bending him to the right
and that's my half pass
another really good exercise that you can do
to improve your half passes is to start with shoulder and ride a few steps of half pass
right shoulder in again
ride a few depths of half past
and ride shoulder in again
and like everything make sure
that you do it in both directions so now i'm gonna rise shoulder in right half pass
shoulder in right
half
shoulder and right
and the reason that that's a really good exercise to work on your half passes is
that the shoulder in helps to create the bend in the body that you need for the half pass so
between the shoulder in and the half pass and the shoulder and then the half pass you have the same
bend in your horse's body also be sure to check out my free rider assessment
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