Why does my horse buck when asked to canter
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- If you're having problems with your horse bucking when asked to canter, going over poles. If you're in the youtube search engine asking:
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There's a good chance your horse is working with a posterior pelvic tilt that is resulting in them not using their topline properly. Check out this video and if you think this is your problem, feel free to email or message us for extra support.
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Great explanation of how posture affects movement in the horse. Particularly appreciated your details and arrow pointing in what it means “to be on the forehand”. Thank you. Nicely done.
so educational! thank you
My horse bucked every time I asked for canter early in his training. My trainer told me to sit back and ask for canter and ride through it. He bucked 4 or 5 times each time I asked for canter for over an hour. I stayed on although I was certain I would die. LOL. My trainer was talking to me and giving me courage the entire time and at the end of the hour he pretty much had given up with the bucking although every once in a while he would buck a little. I always remembered to lean back when asking for canter which was the key in staying on. Years later I asked for canter and forgot to lean back that one time. I sailed over his head and he jumped me as i fell in front of him. I landed hard and hurt my shoulder but I was never afraid to ask for canter after that. Also I ALWAYS leaned back. I honestly think he did it because he was so damn lazy. LOL.
Hi! My horse has been having this exact problem for the past 3 months, at first we thought it had something to do with the saddle but I've been using it on him for about a year now and we haven't had any trouble with it until now. He does the same head bob you showed where they try to get a break from the tension as well. His main area of discomfort I've noticed is on the left lead (particularly when rounding the corners). I was just wondering, what exercises do we need to start doing to get him less hollow and start working on his hind end?? Is there any particular reason that makes him start being more hollow like this? If so how can I fix it and make sure it doesn't happen again?
There are quite a few exercises we use in our equine athlete program. The biggest one being that you want relaxation to contact not submission. If the under neck is on and bracing it will block the action of the shoulder and hindquarters coming through.
So what is the solution and what exercises can we do to help them not have that posterior pelvic tilt?
There are a number of things to pay attention to. Firstly you want to be strong, secure and balanced over your lower leg so that you have independent control over your hands (ie they aren't flailing, you aren't balancing on the horses mouth and you can use your hands effectively and smoothly) so that you can build trust and confidence from your horse in your hands. We then want our horse to seek our hands for direction. When we are using rein contact we aren't using it for neck flexion we are using it for hock flexion (ie getting the horse to sit deeper into the hocks) and we are keeping the action dynamic (ie changing direction, tempo, pace and frame consistently). This encourages them to anticipate what is happening next which gets them to work harder to balance and switch on their core. Then we are doing stretches that encourage the horse to seek the contact and stacking them up in to good posture (ie getting the hind legs to track up evenly, getting even articulation of the shoulders so they aren't balancing in to one more than the other and doing what I call pony push ups to get the thoracic sling working and strengthening) with the cues we have been working on in our lateral work. This is what gets the topline to switch on and establish relaxation and swing (for which we also need mental relaxation)
More than anything else the what creates the false rotation of the pelvis is driving the horse forward into a restrictive or unbalancing hand while the horse is on the forehand. When we ride the energy into contact we want our horse to come up through the whither not ground the forehand (which is what also makes our horse heavy). So what often ends up happening is the rider feels the heaviness and gets the horse lighter with submission to bit pressure resulting in the horse working behind the bit which creates all the postural misalignments starting with the false rotation of the pelvis.
We have a step by step process for the cuing and the conditioning exercises to get our horses engaging their topline for good posture stacking that we teach in our school and in our online program, "equestrian athlete"
Hey! So my horse has huge problems cantering especially on right lead. She will do bunny hops, drop her shoulder in, and sharply turn into the arena most of the times when I ask her to right lead canter. She will only right lead canter in certain parts of the arena. In the other parts, there is nothing I can do to get her to canter. Any ideas?
Hey Maggie, sorry I only just saw this comment! Have you been able to resolve it? Most likely it has to do with her balance being in to her right shoulder rather than in to her right hind and because that's where her balance is, she is not able to lift the shoulder for the strike off and is rather dropping her shoulder and falling in to the canter. It is hard to know without video. We have a gait analysis where we offer coaching over video if you do still need help.
The most important thing is getting the half halt to work to transfer weight properly into the hindquarters to get them to lift off the forehand. Most often half halt isn't working properly to transfer weight off the forehand into the hindquarters and they just end up tucking their nose deeper.
We also need to be doing lots of transitions down into long and low and up in to a working frame to engage the thoracic sling so that the horses are strong enough to lift through the shoulders. This is another problem the horses can have is that they become too supple through their topline. We see this when they stand base narrow through the shoulders. This means their thoracic sling is not working and they are compensating through different posture evasions. We need to use the transitions from long and low to working frame as like a push up to get them to strengthen and not just supple their topline. We can also do this in to upward transitions, poles and grids to add the extra challenge to the "push up"
Hi! I emailed you and was wondering if you could help me and my daughter! I cannot tell if this is the reason why my daughter's TB has this issue. He does throw a buck with her when she asks for the canter. It is very frustrating for her and emotionally I believe she wants to give up. We tried not cantering for 10 days to give him a break as she has been riding him for a month and a half. He is new to her and he was out of work for a while b4 she started riding him. I did send you an email. Please let me know if you can help. Videos or video chat. I'm open to anything. Thanks!
Hi Hillary, I've just replied to your email! Thank you for sending it in
I have an issue with my Arab mare, she bucks everytime I ask for a canter when in riding in my yard, but when I ride her on the road she canters without bucking what do you think I should do?
Hi Eden, I've forwarded your comment to Katie who should be able to reply during the week :)
It might be a balance issue? If she's ok out I'm assuming shes on long straight lines and can balance and organise her legs in to canter whereas if she's bucking in a yard maybe it's because she doesn't feel like she can balance and organise her legs for turns? You'd be surprised by how much training our horses need to balance with us on their back
@@EquestrianMovement Thank you so much! Our yard is kinda hilly should I just avoid riding in our yard?
@@MyMareFlickaAndFriends the hills could definitely be a contributing factor I normally start with cantering up the hills and trotting down until they feel balanced in trot and then maybe transitions heading down the hill.
I’m riding a horse on property. We don’t have an arena so we only do trail riding. The horse will only trot when he wants to and he will never canter. When he doesn’t want to go faster he will buck or root around with his head. I was not the one to start him, so I’m not sure how he developed these problems. It is so hard to work with him because I can only do it on the trail in the mountains (desert). If I use a crop or rounded spurs he stops and refuses to move. How can I solve this problem?
I had this problem once all I did was when they stopped I got a long riding crop/dressage whip and rounded spurs and I just sat there whipping on the bum and kicking with my spurs until the horse moved forward even if it’s just a step most horses will buck,kick out, rear so if they do circle as tight as possible making the horse as uncomfortable as possible but if you keep repeatedly doing it they learn forward means no whip or spurs it sounds super mean but I promise with time it works and I have done it with 2 different horses❤️
@@abuckingbay1328 I tried the spurs and he bucked. Though, as soon as I decided to take off the spurs he would move forward and was very good and responsive. I think having him know that I could spur him makes him comfortable enough to move. Thanks for the advice!
It very well might be stomach ulcers. Depending on how he was started, his old owners might have started under-saddle work before he was ready or done too much with him in a short period of time which stressed him out because he wasn’t able to process everything they were asking him to do. Under high stress, it’s much easier for horses to develop stomach ulcers and a lot of times when you ask a horse with ulcers to move forward by using spurs or if you kick them every stride, they’ll either refuse to move forward or kick out. The problem could even be a tack fitting issue, the saddle could be too long in the back and causing him to buck. Chances are if your horse is acting like that, he could be experiencing some pain or discomfort and it’s worth getting those things checked out before labeling the issue as behavioral. Hope this helps! 💕
@@Primrose.ponies Thanks for the response. He gets annual vet care and I wasn’t using spurs or kicking him. His saddle is a good fit, too. He is a very interesting horse.
@@hannahsms3816 Ah I see, thanks for letting me know! He does sound rather interesting, perhaps he’s just more reactive and excitable than most horses then 😆
Good demonstration, but please take a course in speech articulation. It is difficult to understand you because you have what I call "lazy speech." Slow down, articulate your consonants, be conscious of how you use your mouth (you often try to talk without opening your mouth) and you will be a super communicator!