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Post by kateanne0 on Apr 13, 2017 8:04:46 GMT
What is your instructor asking you to do?
No offence to you but are you completely balanced in the saddle? It could be a rider positional problem. Does your horse strike off correctly on the lunge?
Try turning your head to the left as you ask for canter to see if this helps. (I'm not an instructor but this helped with one of my grandchildren.)
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Post by bugs on Apr 19, 2017 19:09:04 GMT
I find a pole in the corner or on the circle wher you are going to ask for canter useful. I was also taught to lay the whip on the horses shoulder as you are asking for canter at pony club years ago as it stops you lifting your inside hand to high when you are trying too hard. Not sure whether it's true or not but never had any issues with wrong leads with any young ponies so must be something in it!
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Post by gillwales on Apr 23, 2017 4:54:19 GMT
First make certain you are sitting square in the saddle with your leathers of equal length.
Second; horses are like us are right and left handed, there will always be one rein they prefer, work on the other far more and stopp cantering on her favourite rein for the time being.
Third, do lots of circle work, starting in walk and work up, ignore canter for the tie being. you have to ensure she is bending arounf your inside leg without falling in on her shoulder.
Forth. Your postition is vital! You must be sitting tall with your shoulder, hip and heel in a vertical line ( except when you put your outside leg back to hold the bend). Concentrate on this in walk. Schooling in walk is very important and few people do it, it is the one pace when you can also consider what you are doing and how you transmit aides. Lots of cirlce work, decresing and increasing the size of the circle, use lateral work to increase the size- this will help get the correct bend and ensure she is wrapped around the inside leg.
Fifth. Once you have worked upto trot circles go onto a 10 m circle in a corner and once you feel both you and she are balanced and in harmony give a very strong canter aide backed up with a voice command, this should help you get the correct lead, if not bring back to trot straight away and keep repeating until she leads on canter. Go onto a bigger circle, tell her she is good. bring back to trot, pat her, go back onto the smaller circle and repeat. End on a good note! Establish this before going bck and working on both reins. Always school her first on her bad rein then change. I have always managed to get the corret lead this way, even when one pony had not gone on the left lead for 5 years; it is a matter of putting your mare in a place where it is impossible for her to do anything but go on the correct lead.
If your instructor cannot verbally explain what she wants you to do ask her to get onto your mare and show you.
good luck and please let us know how you get on.
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Post by honeypot on Apr 23, 2017 7:02:47 GMT
First make certain you are sitting square in the saddle with your leathers of equal length. Second; horses are like us are right and left handed, there will always be one rein they prefer, work on the other far more and stopp cantering on her favourite rein for the time being. Third, do lots of circle work, starting in walk and work up, ignore canter for the tie being. you have to ensure she is bending arounf your inside leg without falling in on her shoulder. Forth. Your postition is vital! You must be sitting tall with your shoulder, hip and heel in a vertical line ( except when you put your outside leg back to hold the bend). Concentrate on this in walk. Schooling in walk is very important and few people do it, it is the one pace when you can also consider what you are doing and how you transmit aides. Lots of cirlce work, decresing and increasing the size of the circle, use lateral work to increase the size- this will help get the correct bend and ensure she is wrapped around the inside leg. Fifth. Once you have worked upto trot circles go onto a 10 m circle in a corner and once you feel both you and she are balanced and in harmony give a very strong canter aide backed up with a voice command, this should help you get the correct lead, if not bring back to trot straight away and keep repeating until she leads on canter. Go onto a bigger circle, tell her she is good. bring back to trot, pat her, go back onto the smaller circle and repeat. End on a good note! Establish this before going bck and working on both reins. Always school her first on her bad rein then change. I have always managed to get the corret lead this way, even when one pony had not gone on the left lead for 5 years; it is a matter of putting your mare in a place where it is impossible for her to do anything but go on the correct lead. If your instructor cannot verbally explain what she wants you to do ask her to get onto your mare and show you. good luck and please let us know how you get on. I agree with all of this, plus a trick which works 98% of the time. You raise a pole on the ground coming out of the corner at the short end of the school, just the outside wall end. It only has to be about a foot high, just enough to make them jump. Do your work it trot, you can ride over the bottom end of the pole that should be on the floor. We you are ready on circle in trot you jump the higher end of the pole coming out of the bend,the pony should pop out their inside leg and land in canter on the correct leg, do one circuit of canter and praise. We used to have a pony who did this all the time. Its just working out what makes it easy for them to understand and stops you from becoming tense. |
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Post by sarahp on Apr 23, 2017 8:10:11 GMT
All good advice above, but the problem could stem from a number of different reasons, all of which need different remedies. I'd start with a good instructor to help find the cause, which could be rider, maybe saddle fitting or a physical problem with the horse which could be secondary to either of the above or totally unrelated!
I personally always had trouble with canter transitions, related to the fact that I have one hip rotated outwards causing me to sit with one hip more forward than the other. By the time I'd understood that, thanks to my trainer, the saddle itself was affected which caused a problem in the horse's back. Sorted horse, saddle and myself (well as far as I could with my basic conformation) but by then it had became a problem in my head so that I rode them badly. This is when a simple metal "trick" can come in, like the above PC stick usage, or a phrase from the trainer to think of while doing it. I explain all this to illustrate that it can have a complex root and multiple remedies to try.
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