How to ride a Shallow Loop Serpentine
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Shallow-Loop Serpentines
You know how much I love the bend-efits of the serpentine right? Suppleness, straightness, bend, focus… the list is as long as the serpentine itself!
In this week’s video, I’m showing you how to do the perfect shallow-loop serpentine with Mercurio, with footage both on the ground and in the air!
Most serpentines go all the way across the arena, but a shallow loop goes only to the centreline. You go from one corner, into X and then back to the corner.
The shallow-loop serpentine is great for getting you to focus on making the bend in the right place without having to just rely on the other side of the arena!
This is a wonderful exercise for suppleness and for getting your horse on the aids.
It’s really important to change the bend through each turn, moving the horse around your inside leg and guiding with your outside leg, giving the desired outcome of nice curvy lines .
What we don’t want is to come steep off the corner in a straight diagonal line, go straight on the centre line and then step back out to the other corner on a straight line again. We want nice arching curved lines and good bend throughout, not geometric lines
Here's some tips to get great shallow-loop serpentines.
If you’re having trouble getting your horse to bend, do a ten meter circle at X to remind them to bend in the body and then go back to the rail.
Any time they resist the bend, ask for a ten meter circle in the direction in question.
Setting out cones is a great way to give you and your horse focus and make you aware of the accuracy of where you both need to be.
Watch the video with tandem footage from the ground and the air, where Mercurio and I show you what to do, what NOT to do, and some handy fixes for when things aren’t bending your way!
Thanks for watching and Happy Riding!
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The drone footage really allows you to see the bend and smoothness of the loop.
That was really helpful to me because I had not been emphasizing the bend and was told that the change in posting diagonal was unnecessary. I prefer the change and the bend--they both make sense. I also like the addition of the 10 meter circles to get more bend at all 3 points. The drone footage makes all of this so much more visible! Thank you
You're welcome, I'm glad it was helpful!
The drone view is fantastic! Really helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Love seeing it from above :)
Nicely done. I'm liking the use of 10m correction circles. allows us amateurs to get our legs correct.
Yes! It really does help!!
Yay the shallow loop is back for the 2023 T3 test 😊 thanks for the video!
Yes!! You’re right. It is!
Love the drone footage!
I like shallow loop that comes out to the quarter line instead of all the way out to X. Gives them something to concentrate on when they are rushing off in trot or getting stressy after canter. Good to do in trot and ask for canter as you come back to the outside track, with a horse that rushes into canter. I love them just as much as using circles.
I do too! It's a great exercise any way you need to use it!
Thanks for this video, I have trouble getting nice bends and the idea of a 10 meter circle is a good idea!
Yes! It really does help!!
Very nice video. Enjoyed it very much.
The overview is extremely helpful!!
So glad you liked it!
Hi Amelia; I'm here paying attention; thank you so much for the PDF; looking forward to joining online as well as your Facebook Group; again, thanks a million!!!
You are so welcome!
As a primarily life long hunter/jumper - I am LOVING all your videos for new flat work goals to stay challenged while I take it easy riding out this pregnancy. Your channel is a wonderful resource of things to polish myself, grow my 4 year old OTTB and teach my young beginner daughters their foundations ! Love the drone footage too ! Great to see it all coming together in the big picture.
Like how you use the cones
I love serpentines. They are a great exercise that helps my horse relax. The drone footage was really great to see suppleness.
Thank you a million. You helped me so much. ❤️
That makes me so happy to hear!
Nice exercise to supplement lateral work and promote bend/change of direction. I also really like six loop serpentines (basically serpentines between the quarter lines) or 10 meter figure eights (same thing, only shorter). This really helps to open the rib cage and flex the spine. Thanks for another great video!
I have been going TO the end letters (K, H; M,F) instead of a bit inside of them, so THANK YOU for the very helpful aerial view!
Will try tomorrow.
I have done these . It's wonderful to practice the movement. The bird's-eye view is superb!
Yes!! They are a great exercise!!
Great to see from above. Would like to see position of cones from above too.
Love the drone shots, the views are very helpful! I look forward to trying this exercise tomorrow. It is always nice to find new exercises that help your horse be more supple and have better bend and balance.
Thank you
Was just doing this this am.on my FEI guy to get him looser thru his top line! Cool video from above and side by side! Like the idea of adding the circle too!
Loved this video, in.particular the tip to add a 10m circle if you are struggling to get enough bend. The drone footage is an awesome addition. Makes one really feel.like you are riding the figures.
Hi Amelia your videos are good it is like having a one on one lesson with an instructor. And the fine detail you go into makes all the difference. Thankyou so very much for your videos.
Wonderful!! Glad to hear this is helpful!
You've been spying on us again, haha- how did you know we were just working on serpentines?
And shallow loop at that, you must know my instructor or something, lol!
Awesome as always, don't know what I would do without your videos!
So helpful to see the exercise from above and from the side. It looks so easy and simple but actually this is an incredible movement to teach your young horse. It really does show the holes ... love it. Thank you bunches!
In Belgium we call this a Gebroken Lijn that means a Broken Line 😅
Thank you 💕💕
I love your teaching and the drone footage really helps to see the bend in the horse - Thank you!!
You are so welcome!
Will do it in my riding this coming week. Tks Amelia.
Thank you so much for sharing.
This looks like a great exercise and the drone view was very helpful. Thank you Amelia for the excellent video (as usual)! I remember watching a clinic where the clinician had the rider do several full loop serpentines with circles at each bending point. I was amazed at what a difference it made to the horse, who started to bend better, balance better and to use her hind end more effectively. I will try this one. Also helpful would be a video on the counter canter shallow serpentine.
Yes please on the counter canter shallow Serpentine.
Yes, please break down the counter canter shallow loop serpentine! I struggle with keeping my seat on this exercise.
This is fantastic! Love the side by side footage
Mercurio !!! Love this horse. Such a good worker.
Love the drone footage! Super helpful!
What a perfect video, everything useful is in it!! 👍👍👍👍 Thank you so much for sharing🤗🤗
Tx Amelia, yes drone footage is very helpful
Really great video, can’t wait to try it & the views from above really helpful. Thanks Amelia!
wow lovely to watch - thankyou. will try that for sure
Very helpful. I never knew when to change the bend
Wow, this helped me so much! My instructor has me do this exercise, but as I am fairly new to dressage, I struggled with knowing what this is actually supposed to look like. Thank you so much!! And the drone footage also helps me to visualize it!
super helpful🙆♀️Thank you 👍
great exercise. the drone video is quite helpful.
Thank you for all that you do for us! Loving the Drone footage
The drone footage is so cool! I tried to do this exercise and what I struggle with is preventing the horse falling in or out in certain places where he tends to do it, and how not to counterbend him to get back on track.
Thank you for the video and drone footage. Good to see from above.
Yay!! Glad it is helpful!!
Ok I cheated I sprayed letter's on the middle of the areana, I LOVE YOUR GREY SOOOOOO JEALOUS.
Just love the Arial shots.
Thank you for the video, the drone footage is a great visual! Cant wait to try this!
I am a beginner and we were doing this in my lesson yesterday! Like the 10 m circle and cones tips. I will incorporate these when I practice.
How are these the same or different from broken lines?
Thanks so much for the great videos and descriptions!
Interesting question. I would also.like clarification on this as our tests call for broken lines and not a Serpentine.
Hi Amelia. 👋 I have been working on those Shallow Serpentines with Glory to quarter line even. It works when he gets up or anxious to calm him and supple him. I am so excited about our next clinic in March 2022.
Great!! 👍🏽 I will try out this serpentine in my riding class. I’ll forward this video to my instructor too! Thanks for always sharing Amelia!! 🤗 great job!!!!!
Great video Amelia, as always. Will try this and focus on all the things you pointed out ☺
Great video I was trying this yesterday but I only went to the 1/4 line. Next time I will will put out the markers and try adding the 10m circles! Thank you so much for the help!!
Hi you are horse Rider
Great explanation, thanks Amelia. My question is where do you position your markers please?
They're standard arena markers :)
Would be fun to see you ride your horses in the videos. More dressagehorses ❤
Could you please tell me eactly where you are setting up the cones for this exercise? I loved the drone!
Try putting them at each loop, so one at F, X, and M. Or H, X, and K. Hope that helps!
So I am not confident with sitting trot. I am comfortable posting trot. When executing this movement, shallow loop serpentine, I understand the bend from one to the other and back again...I am wondering if I change the posting diagonal through the bends?? In other words as I travel down the long side bend left, bend right, bend left again...do I change posting diagonal as well or maintain the same posting diagonal from end to end ? Hopefully, I am explaining myself, well enough. Possibly, you can give me more clarity on the correct posting diagonal to ride the loop? Thank you!
Hi Katherine,
Great question! Yes, if you are posting the trot, you do want to change your posting diagonal each time your change bend. Posting on the correct diagonal makes it easier for the horse to carry you and helps them to keep their balance. Here are a couple videos that might help you with your sitting trot as well: th-cam.com/video/7ggq2GlEaUo/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/EdHcbd9SU5E/w-d-xo.html
I noticed while in the rising trot that sometimes you changed your diagonal and sometimes you didn't. Which is preferred in a show? Thank you!
Hey there! Either is good and up to you - I would just be consistent both directions in the test!
hello! don't you change post in the shallow loop serpentine? thank you in advance!
Hi there! Up to you - both are correct!
What are your small center cones called? Love them for working on our accuracy but bot sure were to buy from?
They are soccer cones and I got them from Amazon!
What exercise do you recommend, if the horse is stif on the inside rein when bending?
Try this and remember to work in both directions amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/3-steps-to-round/?TH-cam&General
Hi Amelia, I was just going through some of your videos again, trying to find one that helps with the aids for counter-canter circles. The serpentine we now have down quite pat and we're working on figure 8s in canter without simple change. They "sort of" work in that he maintains collection and Schwung. However, I'm now the problem in confusing him in trying to make the counter-canter circle nice and round and not some mutated egg shape. 🙄The issue is that I maintain the aids for the canter on one lead and simply adjust weight and outside leg to ride a normal canter circle. But now I am *still* giving the aids for a canter one a given lead - while trying to adjust for a circle in the other direction! Giving me a lot of trouble. If you've covered this already, do you have the link to that video, please? Thanks!
Is a change in posting diagonal necessary for the shallow loop? I practice it both ways, and feel like I can get the new bend without changing, but is it more correct to change post? esp in test?
Great question! Either is appropriate. Some people like to change diagonal with the change of bend to demonstrate that they are doing it appropriately.
Thank you Amelia. Would I be correct in my observation that both the beginning and the end of the shallow serpentine have the same bend as for a 10 m circle? When you came past C and headed towards H, the amount of corner that you used and the bend at H, looked as though had you continued on a circle instead of going towards X, you would have had a perfect 10m circle at H, and another one at K. Is that right? It’s not like coming out of a 20 m circle?
Yes! A good way to practice is by actually riding those circles - that will help you get the feel of the bend
Thank you@@AmeliaNewcombDressage
Hello amelia, i am doing our first 5m loop in an upcoming show. Do i need to change my posting diagonals while doing a 5m loop from m-f
You can if you want but it is not required.
Do you have a shalloe loop 5 meter video?
Good suggestion!
Hi Amelia, on the loop do i chage my diagonal ?? when on the bend ? the reason im asking is im entering a dressage test one two and 3 loops need to know if i change my diagonal on the bend? Tina xx
It is actually optional to change your diagonal! But if you were to change, I would change as you are changing your bend.
@@AmeliaNewcombDressage Thanks I did and got great results xx
My horse cannot do a ten metre circle yet.
That's ok, keep working on it!
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Love the drone footage!!!