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Yeah this is where I am with Darcy now. while he was in his "Difficult Winter Period" I more or less left canter alone as he was too wild to cope with it well. He is straighter and more generally rideable now but needs to do the canter work to make the canter itself better. I've probably been guilty of babying him a bit too much now and need to try and get him working a bit harder.Ooh, I like that idea for sitting trot.
Canter exercises are my focus at the moment. I often find with canter if I leave it alone it gets better on it's own, but at the same time things like canter trot transitions wont get better if I dont ride them
I can probably start challenging that a bit more. Left is a bit motorbikey as he gets ignorant about my inside leg so I will be returning to the leg yield-canter exercises from a few weeks ago I think, and might really upset his tiny brain by asking him to LY in canter
aww well done Skylla, that's a good one. I do on and back with Kira like that to really check that the reaction is instant. I think that would buzz Darcy up too much the moment (still needs to work on unbuzzingAn exercise I did yesterday with both of mine which helped the canter transitions (or just in general as we did it in walk and trot too), was to make a transition at every marker going large.
Now Skylla was being a good egg for once, but it was good for accuracy and getting her listening. Topaz we did Canter-Walk-Canter transitions as she is a super swotty advanced horse lol, for her walking to the next marker before cantering was good for schooling that she must walk not jog
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aww well done Skylla, that's a good one. I do on and back with Kira like that to really check that the reaction is instant. I think that would buzz Darcy up too much the moment (still needs to work on unbuzzing
and just gets hysterical.
it's tricky isn't it, he gets behind my aid to the left canter and then strikes off incorrectly as a result, so he does need to sharpen up. but in a way that makes him think *more* and at the moment if I get after him too much he thinks LESS
) and then asking for the canter once you hit the track helped Skylla with finding left canter?
I used the snowman very effectively with one of my lessons who struggled with strike offs on one rein. The little circle helped gather the trot and gave a correct strike off every timeit's tricky isn't it, he gets behind my aid to the left canter and then strikes off incorrectly as a result, so he does need to sharpen up. but in a way that makes him think *more* and at the moment if I get after him too much he thinks LESS
yes I found that really effective too. He started to anticipate the transition coming off the circle and got a bit unruly but it remains up my sleeve
he has always struggled to the left, I think it's partly me now because he is more difficult to put into the right rein and I end up bending him more than he can really do, so we get a head tilt instead of just softening at the poll. i think the circle right stopped me doing that and gave him more of a chance. Need to find ways to replicate that
yes that's what I'm thinking of. and then also LYing in canter when he gets rude about my inside leg.Sounds familiar! Skylla I needed to slow her down so she could engage her brain, rushing was her was of evading, but then I could slow her right down and still get the upwards transition as she's so sharp off the leg...
Leg yielding over to get the leg on (slow leg yield
I stumbled across these the other day and thought they would be nice for Darcy, just fairly straightforward exercises but I liked the way the first one linked together and he probably ought to try some more difficult canter moves now
Having a floorplan to aim for makes me be more strict with him about coping with the spooky side too
https://blog.equisense.com/en/exercises-control/
not wedded to this obviously but just a starter for 10!
We are still enjoying a variety of exercises from the earlier weeks but I do so little with her atm that it takes us a while...