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To get your horse to walk:
To get your horse to walk involves three simple tasks. First you sit deep in your seat bones. But don't lean back. Then squeeze your mount lightly then harder if he doesn't respond to your leg aids. To get your horse to pick up a entergetic walk cluck to him once he picks up the walk. The walk is a fairly slow gait so you don't have to worry about keeping your balance too much. |
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To get your horse to trot:
To get your horse to trot is not that hard of a task. First you must make sure that your reins are even and that your legs are both on the girth. You are going to ask your horse to pick up the trot with just our legs. To start squeeze as hard as you can like if you were sitting on a beach ball and wanted to pop it out in front of you. The horse should pick up a nice easy trot. If you are ridding english you are going to post. Posting is a very simple idea, instead of just sitting there you are going to go up and down with the horses rhythm. To check your diagonal you are going to look at the outside shoulder of your mount and when it goes forward you need to go up. An easy way to rember this is if you think up, down, up, down, or think 1, 2, 1, 2 . |
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To get your horse to canter:
To get your horse to canter you must first pick up a posting trot, working in a circle. Sit your trot then squeeze as hard as you can with your inside leg and lightly kick your horse right behind the girth with your outside leg. This will hopefully get your horse to pick up the correct lead. If your horse dosent pick up the correct lead pull it back to an easy posting trot. Get a crop or whip and try again. In the circle pick up a posting trot, then do a sitting trot for about half the circle then ask for the canter. Ask with your leg first and in a three second time period after your leg, tap the horse with the crop or whip right behind your leg. Your horse should pick up a canter, if it doesn't try again until u get it.
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