HOW TO RIDE WALK TO CANTER TRANSITIONS - AIDS & PREPARATIONS | DMA TV EP 343 

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Hi Alicia, maybe you can help us with how to feel the correct moment in the saddle? So how do I know exactly when the outside hind leg moves forward? And when it hits the ground? How is my outside hip moved at that moment? 🤔 Maybe you can help us feeling things from the saddle? ☺️

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Good suggestion!!! You can see the horses in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_aPecez6Amc.html 💕

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Hi Victoria, Its just passive. Doesnt move just behaves as it would in cantering normally. GREAT question

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Hi Claire! Thank you SOO much for the lovely comment and sharing a bit of your journey with us!! So happy the videos are helping you so much!

Tryed this today. Much to have in mind. My pelvis, massageing the bit, the banana, controlling the shoulders, but my oh my! Whatta good boy I have. It was once again such a nice ride. Got some nice canter with the pop! You are soo good at explaining. I wish I could afford to be a DMA member. So I could learn more. Can't wait for our next training. My instructor will be amazed of our progress, and it is thanks to you.

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Hi there! Would you like to know about the canter aid or how to canter as a rider? Let me know what you are struggling with and we can help you ✨

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Hi Kat, so glad to hear! I will note your suggestion for video but in the meantime, think of a successful canter to walk transition as the horse having the ability to make the canter smaller and smaller until it matches a walk speed, watch this video for suggestions on how to start changing the tempo at canter and note we are already in the process of making a video showing the aids of collecting the canter ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4StQrKsygkA.html 🤩

Good question! Have you seen our shoulder in video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tieLZnu9hXQ.html The difference is just the amount of angle, so shoulder in is 30% angle or 3 tracks and shoulder fore is anything less than that between straight and shoulder in.

Hi Jenny, yes Alicia does use her spurs to remind him and at times even Alicia can fall into the habit of reminding him too much! She uses blunt type spurs so it does not hurt him and the best method is to use one quick aid and leave the aid off. Hope this helps x

Great question, when you say you struggle to feel the hindleg, do you mean where it is in loaction to the front legs or feeling the stride length or tempo?

@@YourRidingSuccess honestly both, like I often go into walk and ask myself, what are the hind legs doing, and I just have no clue. I do know the rhythm of the gate so I could figure it out by seeing the front legs but even that takes a while for me to figure out. It's like I can't tell because I can't see it. I don't know if that makes more sense haha.

One thing that might help you is to have someone from the ground call out when the footfalls are so you can "tune in". With anything "feeling" related it takes time to establish a good feeling and tune it is so it is correct xx

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Hopefully now you have some tips and let us know how you get on!

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Great suggestion! I will ask Alicia about making a canter to walk suggestion for you to all vote on. In the meantime you can focus more on the horse shortening his steps and carrying more weight onto the hindleg and that will help to not have trot steps. The reason the horse does steps of trot is because the horse is not balanced enough to make the canter shorter and quicker. Some exercises that would help you are changing the tempo, so cantering smaller and bigger and changing between. Also better alignment in the canter so shoulder fore. Let me know if you have any questions!!

@@YourRidingSuccess thank you so much!!. Really appreciate the tips 😊

Hi Linda! Thank you for your question. We will get back to you on this one x

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@@YourRidingSuccess tell him that lol, due to the flooding in our indoor due to IDA we won't be riding for a few days, unless the outdoor arena dries after dragging so they have a unplanned vacation

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@@YourRidingSuccess we will be riding in the outdoor today

No silly question! This is Alicia, since Natasha has taken a step back from riding Alicia has been helping with the channel. You can see the episode here where Natasha talks about it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-knoEf_zA0ns.html

Hi Nancy! So sorry for the late reply! GREAT QUESTION!!!! Aid for renvers..... ride a shoulder in..... then change the bend to counter bend..... nothing to do with you leg position..... Thank you so so much for all your support! LMK if the above doesnt make sense! x

​@@YourRidingSuccess Alicia firstly with all the comments & questions you receive now, my heart felt thank you to you and your team there for answering 3 days ago! ... I experimented last week with shoulder-in to renver and to traver, with the though in mind that it has nothing to do with my leg position.. and for sure I'm feeling a bit vulnerable to share here publicly that I don't understand. I study all your videos each a couple times. I drive 50 minutes each way to ride my horse 5x a week, so listen to them again as I drive to my horse and I practice in my mind what I'm going to work on with him & on my body when I ride that night.. For example: In your video The secret to a softer horse at around minute 9 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NpZ5K0_fap4.html you discuss the banana on a circle and switching between leg-yield and working pirouette. When I think working pirouette in that context I think traver. So say tracking left on the circle, for both leg yield and working pirouette the bend and thus small part of banana is on the left side. Plus your valid point that in leg-yield the rider's inside leg must stay at the girth so your horse can bend around it. So what changes in your position to ask your horse to switch straight train tracks around the circle, to leg-yield, and then to working pirouette? There is no change in your leg position or outside leg to ask him to move his quarters into the circle for working piroutte? Is it only your hips moving to face inside vs outside the circle? You're so great at explaining and demos on horse and "wooden horse" too :) to help us understand. Thank you!! ...... and now especially as I'm re-teaching my horse to canter with the walk to canter quick leg touch aid you showed in the Walk Canter video .. preparing us someday for a flying change.. Before last week my leg aid for traver is to move it back to ask him to move his hind quarters in... After last week 3 days of retraining my horse to your walk canter button, my smart horse is thinking canter when my leg moves back to touch his leading hindleg!! good boy!! but now, what to give me & my horse a new button for traver, phew! ... dressage can be such a puzzle for an amateur riders... here's to being vulnerable in asking what may be a silly question!! thanks!

@YourRidingSuccess hoping you'd like a status update... after 3 weeks of changing my canter transition aids to leg always back & on; to electric aid leg back then put my leg back to normal position and canter on.. my horse is responding amazing and doing even walk-canter from shoulder-fore on long side as you show on Gee. He is no longer thinking travers when I use the electric leg aid. He is no longer thinking omg we're in the canter phase of our ride and I want to canter even when I'm not giving the cue. What a difference. So cool. !! Your troubleshooting to "abort mission" in the 1st weeks of training my horse to the new cue, if he swung his hunches in was so helpful to us. We'd abort mission, regroup our shoulder-fore and try the cue again. Also what helped me is watching Ash's lesson on Gee. I'm not trying so hard to help my horse respond to the cue... it's ok if he makes a mistake and doesn't canter... just ask again. Love you "start with the end in mind"... hope someday we can do flying changes :)

Great comment, yes there is, use the "standing on the ground" analogy, which means think of this - if you cut the horse out from underneath you, you should land standing on the ground. Have a look at this video and Alicia talks about it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qL8swhRKY5s.html ✨

@@YourRidingSuccess Right, thank you for your reply and for the link - I did see that video before but obviously needed a reminder! So for me I’m going to put the two ideas together, where it’s like standing on the ground balanced on your own two feet, and then moving your pelvis over to one side just a little bit, as if you’re preparing to stand on one leg, the one that happens to be on the inside of the banana. Maybe it’s more complicated but I like to combine things haha. Thanks again! :)

Awesome! Rather than thinking of one leg, think of rotating your hips and shoulders to match where the horses spine should be x

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Hi Diana! Thanks so much for tuning in! So glad you are enjoying the videos!! We have passed your question along to Alicia and the team to give you some advice! Watch this space for an update x

Hi Diana! Great question! Even though you think he is cantering off an aid from your inside leg, he is not. If that was the case he would strike off on the incorrect leg. Probably what is happening is you are moving your seat in back to front motion which signals him to canter. What you want to do is practice on a circle, go bigger in the trot and go to the point where he is about to break rhythm and ask for canter using your outside leg. You want to ask when you are just about to sit. That way you use physics to get to canter.

Hi Carrie, perhaps your stirrups might be a little long and that is why you are losing your balance and stirrups? An ideal length would be if you stood up like a rising trot that you would still have bend in your knee 🤩