Using A Hill For Collectibility in Half Pass & Canter - June 2020
Gymnastic Exercises
•
13m
Karen and Solana demonstrate how you can use riding down a hill to improve your half pass/haunches-in as well as your collectibility at the canter. Karen uses the hill to let gravity create more scope in Solana’s half pass at the walk as a warm up, then moves to collected canter. Karen canters down the hill striving to maintain the balance and self carriage of the canter. In order to do this going down a hill, Solana must collect! This builds great skills for canter walk transitions, canter pirouettes, and collection in general!
This video is great for anyone with solid working gaits who is beginning collection, or who is already working in collection!
Up Next in Gymnastic Exercises
-
Patterns Warming Up To Canter Pirouet...
In this video, Karen rides Solana and narrates as she goes through several patterns to warm Solana up to do canter pirouettes off a straight line. Even if you are not ready for canter pirouettes at this time, you can still do the first few exercises shown! You will learn Karen’s thought process a...
-
Learning Hindquarter Yields In Motion...
Karen coaches two students to do Hindquarter Yields - In Motion while riding. This movement is an important building block that will help you and your horse learn how to connect the inside hind with the outside shoulder (Essential Gymnastic Ability #5!). This skill, when refined, will help you in...
-
Shoulder In Exercise: Get In - Get Ou...
Karen coaches two riders through a favorite lateral exercise. This exercise can be done for any lateral position (nose to the wall leg yield, shoulder-in, haunches-in, renvers, counter shoulder-in). In this video, we use counter shoulder-in. This exercise will create balance and responsiveness. I...
