Tip/Quote of the Day # 943
When your horse stretches, you cannot follow him with your posture, rounding your shoulders and leaning forward - or you will be encouraging him to fall onto the forehand.
When your horse stretches, you cannot follow him with your posture, rounding your shoulders and leaning forward - or you will be encouraging him to fall onto the forehand.
Your balance and the strength of your core are what allow your position to be unaffected by your horse's changes of speed.
"The quality of a good canter: round, energetic, straight, cadenced, light. You have to feel in the strike off that the horse lifts his forehand without throwing himself forward." ~ Nuno Oliveira
To keep your horse straight in the canter, always be thinking of a slight shoulder fore positioning.
The inside rein is like the directional in your car. You use it to indicate the direction that you plan to go, but not to actually turn your car.