How To Ask For The Canter (EASY STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE) 

This is the best video of asking for the canter that I’ve ever seen. The slow motion was very helpful!

This helped me so much! I was having trouble getting the canter one lesson so I decided to watch this and the next lesson I had I put my outside foot back and I felt the horse trying to canter then as soon as I squeezed and started sitting she cantered! Thank you so much!!!❤

The first time I cantered was absolutely horrible. So rough and short! My 18yo thoroughbred was not experienced in doing things properly just like me after having a Horse that I could barely trot on. The time I rode a successful canter My horse Casper bucked and bucked, he continued doing this for weeks until we got a new saddle. We still don't know what affected him. After all drama canter is now my favourite gait❤ Love your vid btw

What a PERFECT explanation! I have never been able to understand , let alone SEE a leading leg. It was instantaneous just now! Thank you! How could I have been so thick?

Best tutorial yet, clear and easy to understand. Good work! 👍

LOVE YOUR CHANNEL AND LOVE CANTERING ❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks for the video!

Step by step tutorial is really helpful. Will try on my next ride

Thank you for the excellent tutorial! I am just getting back into riding and find this so helpful - also, Tucker is too adorable!

Like I immediately put all of your videos in my Playlist when I first saw your channel

I should have needed this yesterday

*your riding tips are very helpful*

65th I done first canter today and it was easy to ask

This was so helpful, thank you!

From the top down video segment, I was not able to discern which of the horse’s leg was forward. Could you tell me here was the first cut left leg or right leg forward? Please and thank you.

Very useful tutorial...thanks😊

So I cantered today, screamed and scared the horse. It’s probably the worst first time canter you can find online. My thing was: I had fear when the horse transitioned from trot to canter due to the different rhythm plus speed. Any suggestion on how to overcome that fear? I’ve been taking lessons twice a week for 4 months now. I feel I should’ve know better.

Do you have any tips for trying to tell your posting diagonal on a faster horse? I've been having a lot of trouble trying to see my posting diagonal, I've also tried to feel which posting diagonal I'm on but it mostly just feels like I'm on the same diagonal and there's no difference between if I double bounce or not. Also I loved the video, I know how to ask for the canter but I like getting a refresh of the basics :D

What’s better: to sit the canter or to go up’n’ down? Is one way better/more pleasurable for the horse? For the rider?

Does he respond to the sit trot and leg position with a canter because it feels natural for him to go into canter when you do that, or he was trained to have that response to those actions? Thanks for these awesome vids btw!

What lead should I be on when we’re just loping on a strait not in an arena?

It is blanket appaloosa horse?

How tall is Tucker?

I have a problem. In my barn to galopp they told me to give legs and legs and legs and not to push the inside leg and it's so difficult to me😢😢

Great break down! But why do we put our outside leg up and behind? Is that a cue, or a positional/balance thing?

For the sake of curiousity what is/are your favourite part(s) of making videos? ❤ from 🇨🇦

What type of saddle do you have? Been looking for a new saddle and can't find a good one!

My trainer told me I have to lean backwards when asking for canter🤷?

Do u squeeze both of the kegs or just 1?

This is great. Thanks

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I've got nearly 40 hours under my belt & still haven't cantered. Last year, a classmate cantered unintentionally, & it's been talked about every other lesson since. Worse still, it happened on a day when I was off, so I can't join in other than to express my jealousy. Anyway, I am jealous of him, so I've begun looking for opportunities to canter accidentally on purpose, to the point of assessing what situations would be the least hazardous to do this in.

Sure wish my instructor shared this information ...somehow I got into a lope and then got scared

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Starting riding a few months back and your tips are really helping me improve lesson by lesson. Thank you so much.

I had riding lessons for 8 years but there are info/tips in this video that no one told me before. Thank you for this! Very easy to understand! ❤ I love your channel! Always teaches me so much :) Greetings from Brazil!

First time I tried to canter during a lesson, the horse bucked me off, I bounced, landed my crotch on the pommel (aouch) and la ded in the snow. I have to try again today and I'm scared

Im starting at a new barn after not riding for 2-3yrs this rlly helps ! I kinda forgot how to ride

😀😃it really helped a lot thank u

I love your videos! You have such a good way of putting things. I have a question though - what if you're not in the arena? I do a lot of hacking out and don't know if it matters what leg is leading? Any advice Super helpful!

I have done some experimentation cantering on my own two legs, and what I've noticed is: - It is particularly vigorous exercise for the muscles which control the ankle. - My turning circle is significantly larger than in plantigrade running because the ankle is not aiding in turning. - My turning circle is also significantly larger when I turn towards the leading side than away from it.

Can you do a video riding a horse that has a very speedy canter that’s so unbalanced and bouncy my pony is so hard to ride her canter 😅

I was riding my friend's horse as a totally inexperienced first timer and accidentally encouraged a canter. Let me tell you the GRIP I had on those reigns.

I have my lesson tonight so I’ll definitely try that because it looks a lot better than what I do right now 😅

У тебя неправильная посадка. Нет прямой линии ухо-плечо-таз-пятка. Ты заваливаешься плечами вперёд, это плохо, потому что ты загружаешь передним ноги лошади и это опасно для тебя, таким образом ты легко упадёшь, если лошадь спотыкнётся. 😏

thank you this really helped

I love your videos everything is very helpful and you and Tucker make a great team

why do leads matter? no one has ever told me why, just that we need the right one

Cameraman 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Best video. I needed this video. I have a rescue Standardbred trotter. I've been away from horses for 42 years se we have man6 challenges. She's tons of fun do i look forward to our first canter together 💞.

Super informative! I love listening to these friday mornings!

Thank You For Sharing.....

That was really helpful. I have sort of developed a struggle with my seat but my canter seat especially, that I haven't had before. For some reason I seem to have put my entire leg back, instead of just the lower part. Looking back at it now, that might be why I have so much trouble keeping my balance. I will try it right now, as I searched this before my lesson today 😊 Thank you 🥰

I like your lessons , they help me a lot! And I like your t-shirt. I tried to order it. You have no chance looking at Etsy! After more than 30 minutes I finally found it looking under your name. But: they don`t send it to Europe/Germany......What a pity😪

It’s like our 6 lesson at our barn and we are already cantering and jumping (probably just a foot not very high yet)

I just hit my first Canter yesterday and felt awesome, thriling and proud at the same time! But after I watched your video, I think I just did it wrong 😂 thank you so much. This is very helpful esp for beginner like me

Aw man the lesson horse I’m riding doesn’t canter that way. You have to bend them into the rail and only use outside leg. I’ve tried for three lessons to canter and still haven’t gotten it. :(

Im still on trot so far, but canter should be there for me soon, once I build strength and can trot without stirrups or whatever. Also need another horse for arena work as the one I ride isn’t forward enough but is perfect for hacking out (up to my instructor as I take lessons and she knows me well).

thank you. now got a clearer idea about the difference between how to handle trot and canter.. gonna start my next level tomorrow..

I always enjoy your videos! Tucker reminds me of my first lesson horse, so reliable!

The horse I ride hates getting the correct right lead and I’m not good at telling if I’m on the right lead, this is gonna help so much

could you on a video on how to make money off of owning a horse? Like things i can rent my horse out to do or something?

Excellent demo, thank you!

Thanks! I’m just learning to canter and I’m sure this will help me a lot!

Very helpful thank you

lovely vid, thank you!

Can you do a full seat trot for beginners ? 😊

I love your videos!

So wild! I have been practicing getting my Missouri Foxtrotter to canter (she’s gaited so she either paces hard and doesn’t transition or she does and sort of gallops awkwardly). I’ve been looking for information on how to ask so I can train her (and me). This video is exactly what I needed! I find it’s easier to get her to canter from the walk or even a standstill. Do you have any advice for us gaited horse people who have horses that don’t canter as naturally?

Your instruction methods are very similar to my trainer ( almost identical, in fact) which reinforces that I’m learning the correct way. I began training 3 months ago and I appreciate having your advice to refer to when I’m not at the farm. Very helpful. May I ask what saddle you are using for jumping/cantering in 2 point position? I’m in the market for a saddle and struggling to find the right fit for me. I’m 6’ tall and most of my height is in my legs. I’m finding my taller boots are catching on the flaps of most saddles I’ve tried. Thank you in advance for any info.

so for the canter, you ask when the leg is all the way back or just starting to move back?

Could you make a video on how to correctly get a horse on the bit?

how do i stop my leg from falling off the stirrup