Get Perfect Canter Transitions Every Time
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How can I improve my canter? I get this question a lot from my students. Sure, there are a lot of great exercises that you can work on within the canter to improve your canter quality, but the key to a good canter is to first get a good canter transition.
The canter transition is where I see most riders having trouble with their horses. Either they ask at the wrong moment, their horse isn’t round in the trot, or they aren’t balanced when they give the canter aid. If this is you, don’t worry! In this week’s video, I have a few great tips to help you achieve smooth canter transitions.
Quality of the Trot
Before you get ready to ask for the canter, it’s super important to check and make sure that you have a good-quality trot. To make a smooth, balanced transition to canter, your horse needs to be round and lifting their back. Check in with how your horse is going, and focus on getting a nice steady contact, with a forward trot rhythm. If you find that your horse needs to get rounder, take your hands wide, and push them off your inside leg into your outside rein, using your inside rein to supple the bit and help them relax and bend to the inside.
Sitting Trot
Once you’ve checked in with the quality of your trot, now you’re ready to ask for the canter! Because the canter is naturally an asymmetrical gait (meaning it has a left and right lead) the timing of your aids to ask for canter is a lot more complicated than say for example, just asking for the trot from the walk. The biomechanics of the canter make it so that your horse has to lift three of their legs off the ground while pushing off their outside hind to make a balanced transition and pick up the correct canter lead. This means that you have to ask at the exact moment in the trot when the outside hind leg is on the ground to get a good canter transition. To ask at the correct moment, it is super helpful to sit the trot a few strides before asking for the canter.
Sitting the trot before you ask for the canter really is the key to getting a good-quality canter transition. Why not post the trot into the canter? You can post the trot into the canter transition, but because of the way posting trot works, you’ll end up asking for the canter at the incorrect moment, which will cause your horse to become unbalanced in the transition and maybe even pick up the incorrect lead. Plus, if you can sit the trot well into your canter transition, it makes it so much easier for you to stay connected to your horse through the transition and then to sit the canter!
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I hope this helps you with your canter transitions!
Happy Riding!
Amelia
00:00 Introduction
00:52 Poor Canter Transition
02:02 Better Quality Trot
03:54 Sitting the Trot
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9am Saturday Dublin. Great tips re canter transition👍
Let me just say that I have never heard anyone explain when to ask for a canter in such a clear and straight forward way. Thank you!
That comment made my day! Thank you!
This video was incredibly helpful! No one has ever explained the canter transition in this manner to me before. Your instruction is clear and easy to understand. Thank you! ❤
I have no problem sitting the trot. I'm working on the canter transition with my 8 yo OTTB and every time I sit the trot, he anticipates the canter and gets all excited. He loves to canter. We're working on it. LOL
Oh gosh this is helpful. Trot-canter transitions are the biggest thing I struggle with right now, and your calm and clear explanation (with video demonstration!) is so, so reassuring. It's like having another instructor at my fingertips 💚💜 thank you! 🥰
Glad it was helpful!💕
I've never heard about asking for canter when the inside leg is forward. I'm still relearning and just do it from the sitting trot without thinking about leg position. I'm heading into my next lesson soon, and will try to apply that tip. Thank you so much for that clear instruction and visual!
I agree, I've never had the canter transition explained in such a clear and easily understood way. I'll be counting the front leg and work on asking at the RIGHT time. This explains why it hasn't been so good sometimes. Love your videos, such a useful resource. Thankyou
This is a great video! I have a broken hand so I cannot participate in the challenge. But after surgery and when I am back in the saddle, I look forward to what ever new challenge you have at that time. Thank you for all your super helpful videos! Caroline
Very good video Amelia, thankyou. You always provide such useful tips, & always give the explanation of why! By providing strong theoretical foundations & then the steps to how, is absolutely invaluable! You share so much crucial information that many people, myself for one, wouldn't otherwise have!! I love that! You're wonderful!!! ❤
You are so welcome!
This was fabulous! As I'm moving ahead into first level this year sitting trot is a challenge on my Paint. The way you explained it was so clear. Thank you!
Thank you for the detail of noticing when the inside front foot being on the ground. I had learned that you need to ask for canter when the outside hind foot was on the ground but I don’t have sufficiently good feel to be able to identify the moment. Looking forward to trying this tomorrow in my lesson.
Perfect video and timing for me thanks Amelia. You have a gift for breaking things down into bite sized chunks. Your tip on how to time the canter aid (once trot is forward and round) is gold. 🙏
I love this tip. How do I remember this once in the saddle? ;-) I always get so tense and stiff during the canter transition. I will try to observe the leg, maybe that would help.
Love this! Just what I needed to see! I tend to rock forward to bring impulsion into the canter transition. A quieter upper body for me.
Sitting trot is my favorite, posting trot is where I struggle, left rein especially
Thank you🙏🏽🫶🏼
Amazing, thank you so much! Certainly inspiring to become better at the sitting trot and canter🔥🤩
aww you're so sweet! Have you heard about my sitting trot challenge? I took all my knowledge on the sitting trot and put it into an educational course for you! amelianewcombdressage.com/sitting-trot-challenge/
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Thanks Amelia. Very helpful video.
You're so welcome!
Brilliant explanation!
Glad it helped!
Do you have any videos on the downward transition from canter? My horse rushes into a crazy fast trot and is hard to slow down. Thanks!
Try this amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/downward-transitions/
my instructor's biggest critique is that i sit the trot too long before asking for the canter! she says sitting and going into the canter should be one fluid movement. but i like to sit for a bit to get organised and feel that i've got a good trot and we are ready to transition. it's funny because that's exactly what you say too. definitely confusing.
Without seeing your horse, it's hard to say what your instructor is seeing. But it could be that you're sitting for too long and the quality of the trot starts to waiver, so you should transition before the quality is completely gone so that the transition is nicer. It's a hard balance for sure! Have you heard about my sitting trot challenge? It sounds like it might help you: amelianewcombdressage.com/sitting-trot-challenge/
@@AmeliaNewcombDressage that makes sense. we're only at the lower levels anyways, so it would make sense for it to be a more fluid movement, since we post the trot the rest of the time. i just need to find that happy medium!
Can you explain over his back?
Where he is stepping under with his hind legs and lifting his back.
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He came up on the first because he was not forward enough was somewhat behind the bit.
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I can get a perfect canter transition going to the left, and when asking her when we are riding straight, but not going left is difficult. Help!
Try this exercise - it is one of my favorites for working on this! amelianewcombdressage.com/dressage-training/lets-ride-the-snowman/
I followed all your advise from this video today with her and I got three in a row. I was asking for the canter off the wrong leg. 😩. Thank you again!
Watching this ....whats i feel does not help get a good canter transition is in our level 3 dressage test we have to canter after the walk across the diagonal with only a few strids of trot then canter and i think its to quick as most times the trot is not good enough to transition to canter.🤷🇦🇺✨
That can definitely be a hard movement sequence. It's about testing your horse's reaction and obedience to the aids. The more novice tests have easier requirements and are designed to build up that ability in your horse. Eventually you will be able to do halt to canter! :)
Just fell of horse in my first day canter
Oh no! Hope you are ok.