Video Critique: Tytti and Usko
Will Faerber from Art 2 Ride discusses the video sent in by Tytti and makes suggestions for further improvement.
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Jay Kay says: Hi Will – thanks for sharing your critiques, I’m learning so much! I’ve heard so many times that the only to improve the canter is to do it. I now know through my own experience that this doesn’t work, and it makes me very happy to hear you say that trot work will help the canter. Thanks again!
catherine says: With regards to the canter what I have experienced is that sometimes if you do something a bit more challenging then the lesser thing becomes easier for the horse. For example in this video once the rider had cantered the trot became more energetic. I also wondered if she was doing many transitions to get the horse to liven and listen (?)
I enjoyed this video because both the horse and rider were somewhere that I could relate to. It’s nice to see an ordinary horse and rider like myself and my horse – Well done!
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Kali says:
You are right in the first instance but only if you remember that the horse must be working correctly over it’s back for the exercise to be of real value, that is, it builds the horse up rather than tears it down so to speak. So just doing a bad canter will not help, but if the horse canters better then it trots, that is, it can work over it’s back more easily at the canter than at the the trot it will help. As to transitions our rule of thumb is that the horse must be able to stay in the correct contact and with the correct amount of engagement through the back in each gait before we worry about transitions between the gaits. When you train like this the difficulties just disappear without stress and the horse just one day can do the transitions without a problem. If you are fighting the horse to make the transitions as we see so many people doing, it will have the effect of shortening the gaits because the only way you can get that perfect head carriage that people try to force the horse into is by going very slowly. These same people find that as soon as they try to open up the gaits to extend, it all falls apart and the horse feels like a car with the wheels coming off!
Hi Will – thanks for sharing your critiques, I’m learning so much! I’ve heard so many times that the only to improve the canter is to do it. I now know through my own experience that this doesn’t work, and it makes me very happy to hear you say that trot work will help the canter. Thanks again!
With regards to the canter what I have experienced is that sometimes if you do something a bit more challenging then the lesser thing becomes easier for the horse. For example in this video once the rider had cantered the trot became more energetic. I also wondered if she was doing many transitions to get the horse to liven and listen (?)
I enjoyed this video because both the horse and rider were somewhere that I could relate to. It’s nice to see an ordinary horse and rider like myself and my horse – Well done!
You are right in the first instance but only if you remember that the horse must be working correctly over it’s back for the exercise to be of real value, that is, it builds the horse up rather than tears it down so to speak. So just doing a bad canter will not help, but if the horse canters better then it trots, that is, it can work over it’s back more easily at the canter than at the the trot it will help. As to transitions our rule of thumb is that the horse must be able to stay in the correct contact and with the correct amount of engagement through the back in each gait before we worry about transitions between the gaits. When you train like this the difficulties just disappear without stress and the horse just one day can do the transitions without a problem. If you are fighting the horse to make the transitions as we see so many people doing, it will have the effect of shortening the gaits because the only way you can get that perfect head carriage that people try to force the horse into is by going very slowly. These same people find that as soon as they try to open up the gaits to extend, it all falls apart and the horse feels like a car with the wheels coming off!