Perfect Your Canter Transitions in One, Two, Three!

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Ah, the canter transition! It seems like it should be so easy, yet it’s not easy at all. Many riders struggle with their canter transitions. Perhaps your horse speeds up and rushes in the trot, picks up the wrong lead, comes above the bit, or refuses to transition to the canter at all! The canter is unique because the aids to ask for the canter are different for every horse and rider. Sometimes it can take a while for you to figure out the exact aids and timing your horse needs to pick up the canter well!
If you are struggling with your canter transitions, don’t worry! In this week’s video, I will be going over three simple steps to help you improve them! These three steps are the exact checklist I go through with every horse I ride! Here are my three steps to pick up the canter:
1. Achieve a self-going trot. Before you even think about asking your horse to canter, they need to be able to maintain a nice forward, round, and active trot without constant reminders to keep going. Try a few walk-trot transitions to get your horse more connected, responsive, and in front of your leg.
2. Achieve the correct bend. To pick up the correct lead, our horses need to be bent correctly in the direction of travel. I recommend picking up the canter in a corner or on a circle line to help get the correct bend. The aids for bending are inside leg pushing your horse into the outside rein, outside leg supporting behind the girth, and the inside fingers asking for flexion.
3. Half-halt before you ask for canter. The half-halt is important because it helps balance your horse, and also prepares your horse for what is coming next. Half-halt before you give your horse the canter aids to let them know something is coming. The universal aids for the canter are inside leg at the girth and outside leg behind the girth.
As you are working on your canter transitions, focus on your rider position as well. It is common for riders to lean forward and pull during the canter transition. This is incorrect, and makes it harder for your horse to pick up the canter! Make sure that you keep your shoulders back and your hands down.
I hope these three quick tips help you improve your canter transitions! Let me know if this helped you and your horse in the comments below!
Happy Riding!
Amelia
P.S. Need more help with your canter? Check out my FREE mini-course PDF all about the Canter!
00:00 Intro
00:50 Step #1- Self-Going Trot
02:25 Step #2 - Correct Bend
03:16 Step #3 - Half-Halt
04:29 Rider Position
05:21 Outro

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@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Check out my FREE PDF mini-course all about the Canter! amelianewcombdressage.com/canter-with-confidence-o/

@lorialbers6583 9 ай бұрын

We definitely need the most help with the half halt before the canter aid.😊

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Half halts can be tricky! Check out my half-halt workshop if you want to dive in more: dressage-training-progress.teachable.com/p/all-about-half-halts

@Luc_Eq 20 күн бұрын

I love all of your videos Amelia! This pony I’m riding never picks up the correct lead on the right rein so I went on a few websites and watched your videos and hopefully today my ride is better ❤

@jessicapang7000 9 ай бұрын

I’m so looking forward to this.

@deirdrepratte9231 9 ай бұрын

Great video! I will be rewatching this one. ThanksQ!Q!

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@ruthrackham2983 3 ай бұрын

this is helpful, I need to get the horse trotting without constant reminder from leg aid so I can collect myself to give the half halt and canter transition aids.

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@patriciamilke1915 3 ай бұрын

Perfect for helping my hunter friends learn the aids to ask my Dressage horse how to canter. They love my horse but always say I am figuring out how to get him to canter. I ride both ways so I guess I take it for granted that It’s really not all that different and I Don really think about it. This is great and non intrusive coming from you rather than me.

@AimeeandApollo 8 ай бұрын

Great video! I definitely struggle keep the top half of my body still! I do tend to lean forward. I'm going to give all these tips a go. Thank-you

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 8 ай бұрын

You got this!

@Khoyal 9 ай бұрын

I hope your back is feeling better. I think about you all the time when I watch your videos sending you big healing. Prayers for your back. Thank you for always such awesome information. The way you teach over the airwaves is very very helpful. Thank you thank you 😊

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Yes it is better! Thank you so much!

@Khoyal 9 ай бұрын

@@AmeliaNewcombDressage Oh, good :)

@heatherlea5411 9 ай бұрын

#1 at the moment. Will be doing lots of transitions.

@writerspen010 9 ай бұрын

This is the perfect video for me, as I recently had a fall trying to get a canter going (still relearning after a long hiatus). How'd you know I needed this?

@martazambrzycka9309 9 ай бұрын

I find my canter transitions completely random. There are rides where I just nail them (last week), and there are rides where my arms, seat and legs are totally disconnected and not at all cooperating (yesterday). There are rides where I am sitting straight, relaxed and breathing and there are these where I tip forward, grip with my knees and pull back on the reins. I cannot figure this out!

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

We all have off days! Focus on going through this checklist for each transition. It will help!

@khadanse-DJ-KHA 9 ай бұрын

thanks you for this great video! I would need more details about half-halt , what do I have to do exactly with leg seat hand?

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Here is a video that might help you: amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/how-to-ride-a-half-halt/

@veronikav4856 9 ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure this is not a technical issue on my end but if you listen to the audio of the video with non-mono sound headphones, there’s only audio in the right ear because my music is otherwise fine. Just wanted to let you know :)

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for letting me know!

@rachelmacgowan86 5 ай бұрын

This is excellent, thank you very much. I will focusing on these three steps next time I'm out on my horse.

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Let me know how it goes!

@rachelmacgowan86 5 ай бұрын

@@AmeliaNewcombDressage Just to let you know I focused on the 3 steps over the weekend. And it worked. I really enjoyed having a plan so-to-speak. It needs Continuous refinement and practice which I intend to do. Thanks again, Amelia.

@anniecampbell8554 9 ай бұрын

Keeping my upper body upright and my hands down is definitely my challenge for now

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Both so important! Check out my free rider position mini course to help: amelianewcombdressage.com/free-rider-fitness-mini-course-o/

@blanc.and.noir. 9 ай бұрын

Any walk to canter tips?

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

I have a great video that might help! These three tips can also be applied to canter-walk as well! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kK5jjLaQ2b2UpZc.html

@anneconverse3060 9 ай бұрын

How about a video on downward transition, canter to trot? My horse has a big trot and that first step out of canter to trot really tosses me all over the place.

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Check this out! amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/the-trot-canter-transition-2/

@higginsba 9 ай бұрын

All 3 😬 some lesson horses jump in to it so easily I’m not sure if I am giving the correct aids or if they are just anticipating it, as others I struggle w and end up w my knees & legs scrunched up & fwd as I keep trying to give the aids. Do you keep your outside leg back the whole time you want to remain in canter? You mention returning to reg position, but then he stopped & I’ve had that happen as well (you may have asked him to stop but I usually haven’t)

@ElizabethPayet 9 ай бұрын

Keep your outside leg back. You don’t want to scrunch your outside leg to his side, but it still should be there to signal a canter

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

This video will help you even more: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atRohahmvsjVpmQ.html

@diannadegrasse8106 9 ай бұрын

Step #3

@maryemerypalmer 8 ай бұрын

Kindly explain”Inside leg to outside rein” when get more forward motion in trot pre-canter. Does that mean bend around inside leg and slightly open/release outside rein to release resistance to bending his neck inside where rein still has relatively more contact with bit/his mouth? You refer to “bend” for canter but are you describing bend to the inside for pre-canter trot? Terminology match to concepts are tricky for me. Thank you!

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 8 ай бұрын

Great question! Check out this video for more help: amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/2960/

@bethmeyers4995 25 күн бұрын

My horse is an OTTB who is 14 years old. She can be very fast at the canter at times but the worst is to the right. She often puts her head down and does small hops and takes me across the arena. I can lunge first and she is very quiet but as soon as I ask on her back she becomes different. She is wonderful at the trot and with walk trot transitions. The canter trot transitions are very hard and bringing her back, especially to the right becomes very hard. I try to use my seat and legs but don't seem to get any results. Even circling doesn't work well. Not sure where else to go with her.

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 25 күн бұрын

We have many students with OTTB's. Have a look at this video amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/the-key-to-smooth-canter-transitions/?KZfaq&General

@56Seeker 7 ай бұрын

What does "in front of the leg" mean?

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 7 ай бұрын

It means that when you put on a leg aid, he responds right away. :) great question

@joygowland7810 9 ай бұрын

My horse struggles in the canter. She is ok out hacking but still puts in a few small bucks when transitioning and a few strides in. She refuses to canter in the school tho! When i sit quietly with the aids on, she gets angry, hollows, runs into an unbalanced trot and starts to fling her legs about. I take aids off, rebalance and ask again, same thing happens. Shes 6 and has had 9 months off schooling due to her having a meltdown from doing too much so gave her a good break. I'm thinking of lunging her with voice commands to get her confident in her own canter before trying to ride the transition so i can have an established voice aid to back up the leg aids until she accepts them. Any thoughts on this issue? shes a friesian x standardbred so i knew canter transitions may be more difficult for her

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Great idea to try some canter work on the lunge line. Always a good idea to ensure your saddle fit is good and no vet issues either. Otherwise, it may take some time to get her strength back! Keep up the great work.

@joygowland7810 9 ай бұрын

@@AmeliaNewcombDressage Thank you! We will try the lunge work. Saddle is checked and fine, no vet issues that have been picked up. Shes a bit sassy and easily frustrated. She can canter in the school when she wants to, shes done some lovely transitions previously on her terms when shes in the mood to cooperate. Its just when i ask for it and shes not up for working that we get the refusals and tantrums. Could be a confidence thing?

@yangliu6433 2 ай бұрын

I am not sure how to keep balance when taking step 3. I worry if I will lean forward and fall of the horse.

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 2 ай бұрын

Have a look at my free course on Canter: amelianewcombdressage.com/canter-with-confidence-o/

@barbstrona1 9 ай бұрын

Because of Mikey’s issues: 22, wonkey right rear leg, walks like a human model crossing legs with every step ( kind of) and falling, i have been told that until i get him to trot perfectly balanced (LOL), i am supposed to oly canter from a walk. He LOVES to canter and he leaps into it. Trainer says he leaps to avoid pain. But we are both happy. I am trying not to lean back in chair seat and not to grip with my calves.

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Great work Mikey and Barb!

@Hamza-cx9pl 2 күн бұрын

Should i keep my outer leg in short position?

@AmeliaNewcombDressage Күн бұрын

Slightly behind the girth

@phatato 9 ай бұрын

I do a good job of keeping my hips moving with the horse during the canter, but my hands don't follow as well as they should

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

This video might help! amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/hands-elbows-and-arms-in-canter/

@juliedolan5949 5 ай бұрын

Hi Amelia i need help on all three steps 😮. Again i have been giving mixed signals to my beautiful coming up 6 year old mare LuLu. She must be soo confused. But looking on the positive, you have helped me identify that it is my fault we dont have much success at canter and now you have shown me how to better communicate with Lulu we can work through this slowly Thank you Julie❤

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 5 ай бұрын

You and Lulu have got this!

@amber_equine 9 ай бұрын

Hi, can you please help me out a bit? I have an ottb who has been retrained by myself, we started a few months ago. Lately, in the past month, she won’t go forward at all. I am now too scared to mount her as she kicks out when trying to mount and when I get on. She has the best personality, very loving and never does anything like this on the ground. I’ve tried getting on bareback and even without the bridle and she does the same. I’ve tried so many things, like take her out of the arena, make sure no other horses are around, get someone to lead her and had someone behind her moving stuff around to try and get her to go forward. I love her so much and I feel like all this time spent on her has just gone to waste.

@AmeliaNewcombDressage 9 ай бұрын

Hi there! I always recommend groundwork for trouble shooting - check out this video: amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/3-groundwork-exercises-for-a-relaxed-and-focused-horse/. It may also be helpful to have a vet asses to make sure she isn't in any pain or ensure your saddle is fitting correctly.

@amber_equine 9 ай бұрын

@@AmeliaNewcombDressage hi yes, I’ve just found out the reason why she is like this😁! The saddle didn’t fit her properly and was too long for her back, she now has a roached back but a relative is helping me fix this. We also found out that she has ulcers.