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Hello everyone, So today we are doing one tempi changes with no stirrups. This is Natasha she's
a confirmed grand prix horse and fun fact about Natasha, she is by Negro so she's a half
sister to the famous Valegro. So I'm going to talk you through my tempi changes on her
and I sometimes actually like to practice my tempi changes without stirrups because
I have a bad habit in the tempi changes of kind of pitching forward and like
leaning out of the saddle so doing tempi changes without stirrups or just flying changes without
stirrups will really help you to stay more connected into the saddle so first off um before
you do your one tempis you want to just do a few like three tempis and two tempis just to make sure
that the aids are all working correctly. I'm gonna do these before I explain to you guys
how to ride and ask for the one tempis. So first things first I'm going to get a nice canter,
make sure that my horse is straight and then shoulder fore.
Get a nice canter, nice corner, get your horse straight, and one and two and three and four
and five and six and I'm trying to give a little bit the inside rain in each change and really feel
like I'm sitting and then for the one tempis, aid, aid, three four five six seven eight
nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen. Good girl Natasha good girl good girl
good girl and then walk-in reward good girl.
So there you go it's possible um I'm going to give her a little walk break and then I'm
going to do a few more tempi changes but I just wanted to talk you guys through. So
when basically your aid for the flying change is that you switch your leg. So like for right
lead canter, your left leg is behind the girth. So if I'm in right leg canter my left leg is here.
if I'm going to do a change to the left my left leg goes forward here and my right leg goes back
that is the aid for the flying change. When you're doing tempi changes you have to count.
So you notice like for the two tempis, it was one-aid, one-aid, one-aid
for the one tempi so here's the crazy thing about the one tempis is the one tempis are
like skipping. So there actually is not a full canter stride in the one tempi so when you're
asking for the one tempis it's basically just leg leg leg leg leg leg you have to switch your legs
before the horse does the flying change otherwise you're too late when you ask for the one tempis.
So I'm gonna go back again and do the two tempi's hopefully and the one tempis. Sometimes horses
like once you do the one tempis it's hard to get them to do the um the two tempis again
because they get kind of stuck in the mode for the one tempis so I'm going to take her up here,
pick up the canter, it's always super important like your walk canter transition is
really really important for your tempi changes so if you're having problems with your tempi changes
go back and just practice canter walk canter walk canter walk. Make sure that the first canter stride
is really crisp and through like that and then I'm gonna start with my two tempis again
one and two and sit sit sit give the inside rain give right give left give left give left
girl that's kind of what I'm thinking in my mind for the one tempis make her a little rounder
make her a little quicker she's not round enough I've gotta wait and now start eight
eight eight eight eight eight eight eight eight eight eight eight eight good girl
good girl. So good girl she's obviously like super confirmed with the one tempis before
you introduce the one tempis you want to make sure that your two tempis are really good and
that your horse reacts to a light aid for the change like that you're not having to
give this huge kick and throw yourself to the side and then the way that you start with the
one tempis. I start them on the quarter line and I just do one one canter right
one one canter right
one one good girl
good girl so that's how you start introducing the one tempis. I call those tick tocks.
Where you just go change outside change inside change outside change inside and get to where
you can do like three tick tocks on one long side then start adding to like four or six
and then eventually you'll be able to do your 15 one tempi's for the test. So i hope this video
was helpful let me know in the comments if you're working on your tempe changes
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like this with the amazing natasha and she's really a special horse she has a lot of talent for
the tempi changes and in our freestyle we actually do two tempis on a half circle into one tempest
so she is um very talented and it's really fun to ride the one tempe is on her
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