Help Me With Half Pass?

I felt sorry for the poor horse and my hands lost all co-ordination and my brain started to fry :-) Otto now runs from me when I tell him it's practice Travers time!!

I feel your pain :-D I felt the same yesterday in my lesson when we working on half pass, each limb has to do something different, certainly tests coordination.

Half steps advice on riding a 10m circle and then asking for travers is very useful, I like to do this in the corner ask for travers and then a 10m circle at E/B and then ask for shoulder in.
To help with bend for travers I found useful in my lesson to ask for shoulder in going across the diagonal so the horse isn't locking onto the fence line, work on travers on the 3/4 line again to stop them locking onto the fence and then you can build upto half pass. As others have mentioned, I ask for 1-2 strides of shoulder in on the centre line, position the shoulders and then ask for travers.
 
I feel your pain :-D I felt the same yesterday in my lesson when we working on half pass, each limb has to do something different, certainly tests coordination.

Half steps advice on riding a 10m circle and then asking for travers is very useful, I like to do this in the corner ask for travers and then a 10m circle at E/B and then ask for shoulder in.
To help with bend for travers I found useful in my lesson to ask for shoulder in going across the diagonal so the horse isn't locking onto the fence line, work on travers on the 3/4 line again to stop them locking onto the fence and then you can build upto half pass. As others have mentioned, I ask for 1-2 strides of shoulder in on the centre line, position the shoulders and then ask for travers.

Thanks for the info. I have been practising the travers from a 10 meter circle as I come off the corner on the short side onto the long side. I half halt with the outside rein (which I forget to do again and again but when I remember the poor horse can do it!) and keep the bend from the circle. He manages about four good steps then I straighten and circle again. I only ask for a few steps for now rather than trying to attempt traver down the long side and it all going wrong. It's definitely a hard one, for me anyway! lol Will hopefully progress onto the halfpass in the new year!

I do tend to stay to the side/fence line myself so trying travers on the diagonal of 3/4 line and also shoulder in down the centre line is something I must remember to do more often!
 
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