Develop the Canter Lengthening/ Medium Canter
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- Are you just learning how to lengthen the Canter? Do you want to know how to teach your horse to really develop his stride in the medium canter? This video takes you step by step through how to do that!
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How to ride Medium Canter/Canter Lengthenings
After covering this topic for the trot last week, we’re naturally going to stride straight into the canter this week!
Here’s a link to the trot video in case you missed it!
• How to Ride the Medium...
The canter lengthening first appears in 1st level, and then medium canter is asked from 2nd Level to Grand Prix. The big difference between lengthening & medium canter is that medium maintains collection, but in canter lengthening, you want to show a lengthening of the stride.
The trickiest thing is the transition into and out of the medium canter but here are some tips to help you get your horse thinking about developing their canter, and help you get those all-important points this show season!
Firstly, give your horse a nice long warm-up before you start working on medium canter work.
Start on a 20m circle and pick up the canter establishing contact, tempo, and frame on an accurate circle.
Using your calf, start asking the horse for a bigger canter just for a few strides, before bringing them back again with a half-halt-give repetition.
Repeat this process and do the same in the opposite direction.
Note! Always ask for your increase or decrease on the uphill part of the canter!
Also important to note is the significance of your seat trajectory. Your seat moves in a circular motion as the horse’s back goes up, level and downhill with the motion of the canter.
For collected canter, we make a circle motion, but to lengthen the canter and make the strides bigger, we swish the saddle in a longer oval from back to front of the saddle
We’re not driving from the hips for longer stride, but using your leg, pressing from the calf and swinging the hips.
Once you are comfortable with this on the circle, you can try it on the long side. Here’s the steps to really develop the medium canter along the rail:
- Ride a really good corner.
- Get the bend off the leg and then take the time to ride them straight and uphill.
- Push on and ride a slower and bigger medium canter along the rail.
- Use a small circle to bring them back from the medium canter strides
- Then go back to the rail and repeat
- You’ll eventually get to the point that the circle is not necessary and a little shoulder-fore and half-halt will bring them back to the collection.
- Don’t over-drill this exercise as it takes a lot of building up. Shorts bursts of quality work will lead to more improvement!
Watch the video where I demonstrate this on Mercurio. He has some lovely clearly demonstrable stride lengthening but as you'll see in the video, the correct setup is important to nail the development of the gait. Have a look and let me know in the comments if you find it helpful!
Thanks for watching!
Using the mane as your indicator! Makes it so much easier to gauge then just "feel it". Great video! Thank you!
You're welcome, glad it helped!
I was just working on this with my coach last night! I'm showing First Level this year with my QH Paint! I'm super excited!
I made a free mini course on showing. Go here to get a copy amelianewcombdressage.com/free-competition-pdf-a/
Hi from England. You make the training exercises so easy to understand I’m hooked on your videos
Again late to this party but so so useful
Amazing lesson. Thank you Amelia
Thank you
Thanks Amelia. Enjoyed video. Great learning instruction for me.
Good
Thanks so much for this!
What timing! I'm just doing Mach 3 in first level. Need to refine it!
We're just at training level, and working this more at the trot, but the whole concept is great. We're doing so much better since completing the Training Scale Masterclass last year so really looking forward to a couple of schooling shows (all there is here) this summer. Along with Working EQ clinic! Yay!
So helpful! I’m in Mauritius and we are aiming to start second level this season.
Love this video, and I can't wait to use the mane. First Level here we come! Thank you!
Yay! Awesome!! Good luck!!
Thank you! This is so helpful (like all your videos!) 😊
I'm so glad!
So helpful! We are going to show 2nd level this year. Thank you!
Best of Luck!
Really nice video. You taught the lesson well. I enjoyed it.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
This was very helpful as I am working on first level. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
I bought that awesome jacket on your website! So excited to get it. I can't wait to see my trainer's reaction when she sees it.
I hope to show, but none scheduled in my area yet. Hope to show at second.
yay! Can't wait to hear what she says :)
You are the best!
Aww thank you!
Sign up for out show season webinar!
So good last video
Thank you!
I'm doing so good on my ride ing and I'm doing will real good on my horse and I have a horse training and she is helping me how to ride better and I'm doing good on my horse and I like your videos that you do on your horse and on your ride ing your horse and I like watch ing your videos it will help me Nannette
That's great!
@@AmeliaNewcombDressage thank you Nannette
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Hi Amelia and team. Another great video. Thanku. You mentioned shoulder fore a few times. I have been wondering could you please explain shoulder fore or if you have a video I am unable to find it. Why and how do you use it, what is the difference to shoulder in? I am a visual learner so hope there’s a video. Thanku, you are a gem! Vick from Oz.
I have just the video for you! th-cam.com/video/4_M1Vi0e9uM/w-d-xo.html
Heyy Amelia! Thanks so much for this video!
How do I not bounce in sitting trot?? ♥️♥️♥️
Good question! I have a free rider position webinar that will be covering that, I think you'd like it. Check it out bit.ly/3LqMFLX
Can you do a close up of what a half halt looks like?
Hey D. This video should help! th-cam.com/video/9M03W7LV41Y/w-d-xo.html
Loved the video but especially about using the mane as an indicator. What do you use as an indicator on a horse with a roached mane as is breed standard for Norwegian fjords?
When you hips are at the back of the saddle during the canter movement.
Since half halt is seat then leg then hand , when you are saying half what muscles/action are you using?
Oblique abs and glute mead
Hi Amelia. What’s the reason for the double bridle bit?
Finesse and the ability to be subtle. Not to be used for strength. Hope that helps.
Great video, as always. So the medium canter should have more jump in it compared to the lengthening?
Yes exactly!
What if they brake into the trot? My horse will do only one circle or two and then she breaks. Do I immediately ask for canter or trot for a bit and then ask?
Immediately ask for canter again if she breaks.
Can U do this with a 5 year old or is this for more advanced horses.
I would say that depends on the 5 year old and when they were started/how much under saddle time they've had. Go by the dressage levels. Can you do everything in training easily? Yes, then you can start on 1st (leg-yields and lengthenings, etc). Hope that helps!
What do you do if a horse just runs and gets super strong in the canter lengthening?
Go back to half-halt work and do lengthening excersizes in the trot to school them first; then when the trot half-halt is more established come back to the canter. Important thing to remember too is that lengthening should be done incrementially. Go just enough forward, then back. Don't let the forward get too big. Then when you have that adjustability there, then try for a little more lengthen. It can take time!
Adding 15m circles to come back after a lengthening can also help with the half-halts (like in the 1st level tests). Hope that helps!
At 6 minutes and 57 seconds into the video, you said ". . . collect and then leg uphill LEAN UP forward bigger, forward, bigger, forward...' What do you mean by that 'Lean up' part"
"Sit up" might have been a better way to say that (sometimes it's hard in the moment). Basically to stretch tall and upwards.
@@AmeliaNewcombDressage Thank you so much!