Crooked Canter Mini -Series Intro - June 2023
Crooked Canter Problems Mini-Series
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This 5 video Mini Series is for anyone who wants to make their working canter easier to ride, especially if you feel like your horse is holding brace, is crooked, or one side feels different than the other.
One of the biggest problems at the working canter is crookedness. It’s an asymmetrical gait to begin with, so core crookedness often shows up even more at the canter.
I put together these videos to help you see several different ways that addressing alignment can improve your horse’s ability to maintain energy, balance, and relaxation in the canter. We’ll start with a video about bend and counter bend at the walk and trot. You will want to be good at this first before attempting to do this at the canter.
Next I’ll show a jumper that is very stiff at the canter. He is defensive about yields in general and you’ll see how improving his openness to moving laterally at the walk and halt will improve the canter.
The other videos show different horses with different canter issues, all of which were solved by improving their alignment, particularly by being able to talk to their shoulders. I know this mini-series is going to really help a lot of people! Don’t forget to leave a comment!
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Bend and Counter Bend at Trot - Jan 2018
In this video, Karen demonstrates counter-bending exercises to do at the walk and trot that help in creating alignment, flexibility, and suppleness. This will help riders coordinate between bend and line of direction. These exercises are helpful for anyone who has working or collected gaits, and ...
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Bend and Counterbend Exercise at Cant...
This video is a continuation of the exercises in the video: Counter-Bend Exercise At The Trot (January 2018). Karen will show how to do bend and counter bend in the canter and counter canter. These exercises will build the rider’s coordination and skill in differentiating between cues for line of...
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Improving the Canter by Improving Yie...
In this video we see DN Instructor, Shawna Lewis, riding a client’s jumping horse in a lesson with me to help him improve his canter. This is the first time I am seeing the horse and since he has a lot of mental and physical brace I decide to do an exercise at the walk in order to improve some of...
