What do you do with your hands and elbows in the canter??
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What do you do with your hands, arms, and elbows in the canter?
Many riders (including myself) struggle to find a steady contact in the canter. In the canter, the horses’ head follows a nodding motion as the horse goes through the 3 beat footfall of the canter stride. It can be challenging to coordinate your body, arms, and elbows to find this steady contact with the horse’s mouth but it is essential to work towards a steady contact so that your horse will relax and stay forward in the canter!
Here are a few tips to help you find a steady contact:
-In the canter seat, your shoulders stay more or less still and the hips move in a circular motion to follow the horses back. As the horse’s head and front end lift up and your seat goes back, your elbows bend. As the horses head goes down and the front legs are on the ground, your elbows have less bend.
-If your elbows do not bend and straighten, the reins will go slack and then pull in the horses mouth. It is very important to have following elbows in the canter.
- In the canter transition, you should give on the inside rein to allow the horse to bring the inside hind leg forward and through. If you do not allow a little “space” on the inside rein or if there is too much pressure on the inside hand, this might cause the horse to take the incorrect lead.
I challenge you to focus on your contact in the canter as you are riding this week. Really focus on finding your following elbows and feel how this gives the horse both confidence and freedom in the canter!
Happy Riding!
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You are absolutely the BEST at explaining and demonstrating!!! I can’t thank you enough for sharing your knowledge. I learn so much from every video of yours
Thank you!!
The slow motion really helps to see the following motion of your elbows. This video was very helpful. Thank you!
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This is brilliant !!! You are the best coach. We appreciate you and Joseph’s time and dedication to us viewers. We know how much work goes into this and again we thank you
The stripes were really helpful; the riders who are good enough that you would want to learn from them don't look like they're moving much at all, so it can be kind of confusing to pinpoint what's going on with various bits of them lol
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You're the best rider and vlogger I've seen in a long time. It's always straight back to basics on steroids and super informative . Thank you Amelia!
I never knew to soften the inside rein during the transition. Can't wait to go give it a try! Thank you!
Yes! It really helps!
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Wow, thanks for this! Clear and concise as always. Your comment about giving with the inside hand made me realize I learned that in dressage lessons 25 years ago- but I haven't actually DONE it in 15!
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Another really great video! Wonderful demonstration and explanation. Thanks so much! Really enjoying your instruction. Thank you.
This was so very helpful! Especially regarding the giving with the inside rein when asking for the canter transition to encourage the correct lead! The slow motion also helped SO MUCH! Thank you for this video, as I have a lesson tomorrow and will have to try this if I am brave enough to canter!😕😁
OMG>..did my trainer call you!!!??? Thank you so much!
I saw the stripes on your sleeves and instantly knew it was going to help me! THANK YOU.
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Another great video. I believe that is very, very true...my coach back home used to call it "blocking" essentially not allowing the horse move forward
It's such an easy mistake to make!
Please, could you do video in which you wil discuss about how to overcome fear of cantering after fall in canter? Thank you.
Thank you Amelia, you have helped me so much over the past year! Love you! :)
Thanks for this. I feel as though my hands are moving too much but I’m just following the bit so I don’t try and keep them still.
Do you have a video on how to hold the reins on the canter and how much pressure to apply?
Yes, indeed, as you well know we are struggling with canter at the moment. Coordination, balance, timing, CONFIDENCE, and so forth. The arms, elbows, shoulders, and hands are a work in progress for sure. Thanks for always breaking it all down for us. Time in the saddle is key!
It's so good to hear you talk about timing. So many trainers don't do that.
can you do a video on how to strengthen a horse's canter? because my horse is much stronger on the left lead and when im cantering on the right, she will do a trot step and switch to left lead, or just break, and her collection is much worse to the right.
Same with mine!
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Such a nice and helping video!
This is exactly what I discovered a few days ago. I was so focused on keeping my hands still that I lost the connection and had a pretty awful canter xd I know better now and your video confirms it :D
Yes!! Your hands elbows do move. But just with the horse!
This is something I’ve been struggling with for a while! Thanks for sharing
thank you for showing that the hand need to follow the nod. now i know why the horse stop, may be because not allowing the head move accordingly. thank you again.. look forward to try in next session.
Let me know how it goes!
Nice tips and tricks! Thank you!!😀
I learn so much from your videos and concise explainations. Thank you for for sharing!
Always helpful! I know sometimes I feel like I am rowing, so using way too much give and take. I like the bend/straighten thought!
Will practice tomorrow. Thank you.
Great video, love your teachings.
Thank u sooo much I really needed this
love this - very much needed
Wow this was a great video! Thank you so much, the stripes and the exaggerated position really helped with showing what you are doing
Thank you Amelia!!
Thanks Amelia! I'm going to work on this and I think Valentina will appreciate it very much also!
Hi Lea!! Good to hear from you! Hope Valentina is good!
A video on improving thoroughness / suppleness and roundness in the canter? Do you use any pole work exercises as well? X
Excellent ! Thank you 😊
Do you have any tips on keeping your horse forward while asking them to go on the bit/ accept the contact, because my horse is lazy and he takes that as and aid to slow down and I really struggle to keep him going forwards
Thanks Amelia I’m working on this atm ( and in the trot too) I really enjoy your teaching style. I’m 5’2” with short arms and I think I tend to stretch my arms forward to compensate 🥴
Wonderful, thank you!
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Feedback l get in the canter is longer reins
Do you also soften the inside rein when performing a flying lead change?
Yes! Exactly!!
Hi Amelia, yet another great video, I learn so much from you, and really appreciate you doing them. I don't have my own horse (maybe one day), but have frequent lessons and no one has ever mentioned giving with the inside rein in transition, really grateful for your knowledge, thank you, Wayne
Thank you for brilliant explaining, helpful as usual. And maybe you have some advice how not to be afraid of the canter?) It's a big problem for beginners.
Hello Amelia, I will certainly give it a try. Thank you as always! 🥰 Would you consider making a video on how to do downwards transition from canter to trot please? I find it tricky to ask the horse and when the horse is changing the gait I bounce! 🤣
Yes. I have one on my channel. You can search for it...
Excellent! Will check it out. Thank you so much 🥰🐴
So it looks like your hand position remains relatively still- they are not going back and forth with the horses’s head and neck it is just the opening and closing of your elbows that is going with the motion of the horse’s head. I will try softening on inside rein- today I had a lot of wrong leads on canter on my green horse today.
Be sure you have the correct bend in the horse before you ask for the canter and weight your inside seat bone when you ask.
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How do I do that?
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I have problems with that as well, for me it helps to hold both reins in my outside Hand. Then I can concentrate on my seat better.
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The horse is just overbent constantly during canter. I know that's fashionable nowadays, but horses with heads behind the vertical literally can't see where they're going properly, let alone how uncomfortable it is for them
Not just canter, but in all the gaits from what I’ve seen. Looks overflexed at the poll to compensate for inversion in the rest of the spine. Painful to watch.
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