I agree because I feel like different instructors say it slightly different. Like I had one person who cued using they're leg back for the inside leg for lopping. Other people tell you to do the outside leg back and others tell you that you need also slightly pull they're outside reign. While others say you need to do a half hault while doing those two things, I guess the exact pattern. I am a routined person so, I guess they are all the samething really, but I guess as she said with your horse finding a method and sticking to that cue for your horse.
I'm impressed how still your lower leg is during that springy trot! You're truly at one with that beautiful horse. Thank you for clear instructions and demo.
Omg thank you SO MUCH, I’ve been having a lot of trouble with leaning forward a lot in my canter and it helped so much to see how to properly use your legs so you don’t tip forward a lot.
I recently restarted riding lessons and my trainer keeps saying we're going to do cantering soon, so I'm really glad to have found your excellent, very thorough tutorial. INSTANT SUBSCRIBER. :D
You have really good body position when you ride. I like to always go back to the basics when riding and asking the horse for anything. Body position is super important. Releasing your hips, and moving the pelvis with the horse is super important. Soft relaxed lower back and relaxed shoulders are critical. Relaxing the shoulders takes conscious effort at first. Practice shrugging shoulders then releasing and letting them hang every day over and over again. I hope your viewers look at your body position and examine how they can achieve that same look.
This is the most helpful video ever about cantering! This made great improvement and i'm very happy. Thank you! Do you think you could do a video of landing on the correct lead off of a jump? If so that would be amazing!❤
A request: if possible.. a beginners guide to jumping and the two point position would be great!! You got yourself a new sub:) Second request: maybe a vid on how to canter with two point as well!(I know I’m commenting late)
I don't know why, but your jacket color is just compliments your horse's coat color, I don't own a horse, but I love taking notes about this stuff if I ever get into riding lessons and whatever
Just been browsing you tube and tips for prelim 19, got sidetracked and watched your video. I shall try this on my next lesson and hope I get a better transition. I reckon I fall into trap of a faster trot, then I grip, heal comes up, faster trot, bouncing 🙄, start over again. Not with every horse, but the less experienced ones. Good to see your leg position so clearly and the way you explain it all. 👌
Im a beginner rider and Im still learning to trot but the way you explained is amazing! Many people take hours to explain what you just explained in 6 minutes! Thanks a lot! I subbed!
Thanks so much! I'm just learning. And it's so hard how to know how they make the horse start cantering. I was told by my trainer to just give a gentle kick while trotting and the horse will start cantering! But that doesn't always work.
Thank you for such clear explanation. Just one question....do you keep the outside leg back all through the canter? What about the inside leg...fobyou need to apply pressure all through or just to start the cater off? Would appreciate your help!@
My name is Brittny Bocchino. I just started learning how to canter, and my question is when you canter to the right, the outside leg goes behind the girth, and the inside leg stays at the girth?
Hi Zara thanks for this. Very well explain. My question is if you want to do a slow canter up a hill what do you then do with your legs, if you are not on a circle. Regards Mary
OMG your video is sooo good, thank you for expaining this to me finally! Lol PS: Please do sth about your sound because my ears (and probably others ears too) are hurting 😆
hii do u have tips on how to keep my stirrups to go in the middle of my boots? like when i canter it always slides half way into the middle of my boots
I know this video has been made a long time ago but is the outside leg supposed to stay back or go back to neutral position? I’ve read many articles and watched many videos but they said different things
My biggest issue is I can canter from walk but not trot. I have a hard time using the right cues while in trot. The bit about sitting trot is something I haven't heard yet. I will try to sit a few strides before going into canter. Thanks!
i fell off my horse two days ago. my lesson was today she started galloping and i’m wondering what i’m doing wrong. i will try at my next lesson. all i do is ask for the canter. i realized i am using the inside leg to ask for the canter not the outside. thanks
I've started recently taking riding lessons again after 10 years and I'm now learning to canter. My instructor told me I have to use my inside leg to ask for gallop (I don't think we have a word for cantering here but watching your video I would say I canter instead of galloping) , otherwise the horse canters on the wrong lead. Do you ask differently for canter and gallop? I'm a little bit confused as to which way is the right one to canter.
Actually, l do find the canter explanations of this lady incomplete. There are actually several cues at almost the same time which have to happen. When riding your horse on a large circle you first tighten your core muscles and take your upper body slightly behind the vertical to create forward movement. Then you put some pressure with your inside leg while closing (not pulling) your outside hand and bringing the outside leg slightly back. This enables the horse to make his first Canter jump correctly starting with the inside leg. At least this is what l learned when starting dressage riding many years ago. And l don't think that any of this has changed ...
My horse is rescued And I only cantered him once. He does not really listen to me if I ask him to trot or cancer and I'm Trying my hardest because he does not even want to walk. 😅
I was kind of confused when you started explaining a "good trot", in my experience, limited to mainly arabian horses yelling "CANT" with a kick, would do the job.
Did anyone else stare at a horses ears when they first learned to ride instead of looking dead ahead like in a car on the road? Lo i had a bad habit of wanting to look at my horse
Make sure you always look where you want to turn and I’m also trying to stay out of that habit! But just know to trust the horse your riding because they normally know what to do, something I’m doing rn is I’m paying attention to where I wanna turn and I’m trying not to look down Ik this probably doesn’t explain it well but hope this helps :)
@@catorceee thank you so much, you explained it perfectly!! I’ve been working really hard on it and I’m mostly out of that habit now! My horse is a 4yr old ottb mare who I had just started working with and I think it was mostly because we didn’t have a bond or any trust between us yet, she also throws some nasty bucks/rears but now that we’ve been working together for a while it’s all coming along really nicely!!
@@fbbffhfffe631 that’s amazing! And I wish I lived on a barn and had horses but I’m still young and my dad doesn’t wanna live out in the country but I take riding lessons and go to horse camp, I love the horses and I love to canter!
Cool it a little. You're shouting most of the time. Overly dramatic presentation is overly annoying. But good video demonstration, nice transitions. Well trained horse. Just calm down and relax your speech a little.
You actually explain what you are doing, so many videos say ‘ask for canter’ and I’m like but howwwww 😂 thank you
😂👌 glad you enjoyed ! Xx
I know
Same!! What’s with that?! This video is so clear!
I agree because I feel like different instructors say it slightly different. Like I had one person who cued using they're leg back for the inside leg for lopping. Other people tell you to do the outside leg back and others tell you that you need also slightly pull they're outside reign. While others say you need to do a half hault while doing those two things, I guess the exact pattern. I am a routined person so, I guess they are all the samething really, but I guess as she said with your horse finding a method and sticking to that cue for your horse.
Same they always just say ok now I'll ask for canter and don't tell you how
The dog chasing them was so adorable-😭
He is called Vinny ! He is 11 years old and still loves to chase them !
and staying out of the way is too cute rightttt
Excellent explanation. This has helped me figure out where I have been going wrong on this transition. Thank you!
Glad you found it helpful :) good luck in your training xxx
Me too😊
Just now learning to canter. This is best verbal explanation and physical showing I’ve found. Going to try this with my next ride. Thanks so much!
Robert Doc Waltz The most difficult stride to master the most comfortable when you do :)
I'm impressed how still your lower leg is during that springy trot! You're truly at one with that beautiful horse. Thank you for clear instructions and demo.
The BEST video I’ve found on cantering- every step broken down clearly, Thankyou very much!
So glad you found it helpful !! Xx
Omg thank you SO MUCH, I’ve been having a lot of trouble with leaning forward a lot in my canter and it helped so much to see how to properly use your legs so you don’t tip forward a lot.
Yay! Glad this helped 😊😊
This is great resource for newbie. I finally understand about the right canter lead and transitions from your video. Keep up the good work!
This is the best video I've seen yet on how to canter. Thank you for posting it.. I'm only a beginner.... At 56...🙈🙈.
Never too old!!
I recently restarted riding lessons and my trainer keeps saying we're going to do cantering soon, so I'm really glad to have found your excellent, very thorough tutorial. INSTANT SUBSCRIBER. :D
You have really good body position when you ride. I like to always go back to the basics when riding and asking the horse for anything. Body position is super important. Releasing your hips, and moving the pelvis with the horse is super important. Soft relaxed lower back and relaxed shoulders are critical. Relaxing the shoulders takes conscious effort at first. Practice shrugging shoulders then releasing and letting them hang every day over and over again. I hope your viewers look at your body position and examine how they can achieve that same look.
This is the most helpful video ever about cantering! This made great improvement and i'm very happy. Thank you! Do you think you could do a video of landing on the correct lead off of a jump? If so that would be amazing!❤
A request: if possible.. a beginners guide to jumping and the two point position would be great!! You got yourself a new sub:) Second request: maybe a vid on how to canter with two point as well!(I know I’m commenting late)
I don't know why, but your jacket color is just compliments your horse's coat color, I don't own a horse, but I love taking notes about this stuff if I ever get into riding lessons and whatever
Just been browsing you tube and tips for prelim 19, got sidetracked and watched your video. I shall try this on my next lesson and hope I get a better transition. I reckon I fall into trap of a faster trot, then I grip, heal comes up, faster trot, bouncing 🙄, start over again. Not with every horse, but the less experienced ones. Good to see your leg position so clearly and the way you explain it all. 👌
Thank you this was very helpful to me. I've been having lessons for a few months and no one told me about putting your outside leg back
brilliant, thank you so much. I've just started cantering and haven't a clue what i'm actually doing. You explained this so well, SUBSCRIBED!! :)
Thanks for making this video my little sis really needed this ❤ can you maybe make a video how to trot asking ur horse for trot
That was so well explained. Next lesson, how to canter a dog :-)
Im a beginner rider and Im still learning to trot but the way you explained is amazing! Many people take hours to explain what you just explained in 6 minutes! Thanks a lot! I subbed!
so glad you found it helpful ! Thanks for the sub xx
Thanks for the lesson ❤❤❤
Thanks so much! I'm just learning. And it's so hard how to know how they make the horse start cantering. I was told by my trainer to just give a gentle kick while trotting and the horse will start cantering! But that doesn't always work.
Omg this is good because i moved up in a riding school to cantering ty
Best of luck with your catering ! Xx
Thank you so much this was so helpful
That horse is very beautiful btw
Hello Zara! , so thank you so much zara ! I have never ridden my own horse cause i rode smbodys horse but thank you so much zara!
This was very helpful. Thanks so much!❤
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for such clear explanation. Just one question....do you keep the outside leg back all through the canter? What about the inside leg...fobyou need to apply pressure all through or just to start the cater off?
Would appreciate your help!@
Once you have asked for canter your outside leg can go back to normal :)
Inside leg keeps the pressure on for bend xx
Your horse is gorgeous omg
Dear Zara! I found your video very inspirating to my students, so I took it over and made subtitles on our language. I hope, you don't mind... THX!!!
This makes me so happy !!!
My name is Brittny Bocchino. I just started learning how to canter, and my question is when you canter to the right, the outside leg goes behind the girth, and the inside leg stays at the girth?
Thank you for explaining the canter to us
Thanks! I always get confused about which leg to move back!
Could you explain more about inside leg? It looks like little bit forwards and press?!!
thx so much ill try this tomorrow on my training and i ill come back and update
thank u I learnt how to canter 3 weeks ago and this really helped me!!
This helped me so much great video great rider beautiful horse
gosh your horse has a nice easy canter movement.
Well explained!
this helped a lot thankyou!!
Your very welcome
X
Hi Zara thanks for this. Very well explain. My question is if you want to do a slow canter up a hill what do you then do with your legs, if you are not on a circle. Regards Mary
If I want to canter, do I have to pull the inside rinse and outside leg? Thank u for the nice video
OMG your video is sooo good, thank you for expaining this to me finally! Lol
PS: Please do sth about your sound because my ears (and probably others ears too) are hurting 😆
im on it ! XD xx
@@ZaraMuradDressage thank you
Loved this video. Very informative
my left ear enjoyed this :D
Excellent!!..👏
I have a question do I keep my outer leg behind the girth all the time when I am cantering?
Do you ask for it with Both legs or only one leg? And you keep the other one in the forward position?
hi, you keep the inside leg pressure on,asking for the body bend, then the outside leg comes back. So yes pressure from both :)
hii do u have tips on how to keep my stirrups to go in the middle of my boots? like when i canter it always slides half way into the middle of my boots
Maybe try shortening your stirrups?
Or push more weight into your stirrups?
They stirrup should be on the ball of your foot, right behind the toes 💗
I know this video has been made a long time ago but is the outside leg supposed to stay back or go back to neutral position? I’ve read many articles and watched many videos but they said different things
my horse doesn’t know how to trot to canter very well, only walk to canter. the beginning helped a lot!
Very helpful, thanks.
My biggest issue is I can canter from walk but not trot. I have a hard time using the right cues while in trot. The bit about sitting trot is something I haven't heard yet. I will try to sit a few strides before going into canter. Thanks!
when you are in canter... how do you ask them to go back to trot??
Thank you so much for this video!? Where is your horsey from? I'd love to own one in that colour tone palamino ❤
Thank you . We bred him at home xx
very well explained
How do you canter on a hack? I used to go off voice commands (clicking my tongue) and that worked fine!
i fell off my horse two days ago. my lesson was today she started galloping and i’m wondering what i’m doing wrong. i will try at my next lesson. all i do is ask for the canter. i realized i am using the inside leg to ask for the canter not the outside. thanks
Ahh! Glad this helped ! Best of luck in your next lesson ❤️
Dog photo bomb
Beautifully ridden!
I've started recently taking riding lessons again after 10 years and I'm now learning to canter. My instructor told me I have to use my inside leg to ask for gallop (I don't think we have a word for cantering here but watching your video I would say I canter instead of galloping) , otherwise the horse canters on the wrong lead. Do you ask differently for canter and gallop?
I'm a little bit confused as to which way is the right one to canter.
Are you dutch by any chance?
Actually, l do find the canter explanations of this lady incomplete. There are actually several cues at almost the same time which have to happen. When riding your horse on a large circle you first tighten your core muscles and take your upper body slightly behind the vertical to create forward movement. Then you put some pressure with your inside leg while closing (not pulling) your outside hand and bringing the outside leg slightly back. This enables the horse to make his first Canter jump correctly starting with the inside leg. At least this is what l learned when starting dressage riding many years ago. And l don't think that any of this has changed ...
My horse is rescued And I only cantered him once. He does not really listen to me if I ask him to trot or cancer and I'm Trying my hardest because he does not even want to walk. 😅
this helped me a lot thank you
I was kind of confused when you started explaining a "good trot", in my experience, limited to mainly arabian horses yelling "CANT" with a kick, would do the job.
if you are going to the left do you use your right leg to ask for canter and if you are going to the right do you use your left leg to ask for canter?
yes so if i am going left handed, my right leg would come back and vise versa :)
What breed is your horse?
Audio is only coming out of the left audio channel. Might want to fix this.
excellent explanation, just to need upgrade your wireless mic
So much money though :(
Thank you so much omg
Aww glad you enjoyed xx
great explanation! but most horse have different aids for canter, no hate xx💕
inside leg bend, outside leg back - sorry I'm v dim - what do you mean by that? (Loved the vid, by the way)
Put your outside leg back. If your trotting and the wall is on your right hand side put your right leg back. Vice versa 💗
My 14 hand pony is green so idk what lead he's on need to get him to learn how to lope in general
Idc* just teaching him how to is what I need .... Idc about lead as long as I can teach him how to lope, been trying he will lunging but not ridden.
רגל אחת או שני הרגליים שאני מנסה קנטר?
One leg. Outside leg swings back
TYSM it really works
Thank for watching ♥️
Did anyone else stare at a horses ears when they first learned to ride instead of looking dead ahead like in a car on the road? Lo i had a bad habit of wanting to look at my horse
I still do that :( have you got any tips to stop and remind yourself to look up
Make sure you always look where you want to turn and I’m also trying to stay out of that habit! But just know to trust the horse your riding because they normally know what to do, something I’m doing rn is I’m paying attention to where I wanna turn and I’m trying not to look down
Ik this probably doesn’t explain it well but hope this helps :)
@@catorceee thank you so much, you explained it perfectly!! I’ve been working really hard on it and I’m mostly out of that habit now! My horse is a 4yr old ottb mare who I had just started working with and I think it was mostly because we didn’t have a bond or any trust between us yet, she also throws some nasty bucks/rears but now that we’ve been working together for a while it’s all coming along really nicely!!
@@fbbffhfffe631 that’s amazing! And I wish I lived on a barn and had horses but I’m still young and my dad doesn’t wanna live out in the country but I take riding lessons and go to horse camp, I love the horses and I love to canter!
lol the dog xD
My boy Vinny keeping us in the school 😂😂
My mum just sent this to me because my horse is a mare and won’t go forward
Want the dog
Cool thank you
Glad you enjoyed :)
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thank you for explaining so good,but next time plss dont speak into the microphone
How tall is that horse you look so tiney on him😆
I’m 5ft and he is 17.3 🥸🥸🥸
im i the only one who realised that when they started cantering the dog was running with them
he loves to join in !!
Am i the only one who cant here whet she is saying in the video
I think it will work
Sound quality hone to pot and maybe next time get who ever filming to try and stay with you and not all over the place
Don’t watch this if your wearing headphones 🎧! 😂
nanny plum
Cool it a little. You're shouting most of the time. Overly dramatic presentation is overly annoying. But good video demonstration, nice transitions. Well trained horse. Just calm down and relax your speech a little.
She’s just making sure you can hear her
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