Crackerz
Well-Known Member
Just after some tips for exercises to help calm one of my boys on his canter transition.
He's a big 5yold 15hh big moving Sec D, on asking to canter, he has a tendency to tense, and often launch in to a massive canter.
I understand that a good canter comes from a good balanced trot etc. I never ask for canter until he is fully warmed up and relaxed. i stay calm, i sit still and at the moment i am 'riding it out' quietly until he settles (half a lap?).
We have our first RC clinic of the year next week, but i would like other opinions too.
He is one of lifes worriers, he was the hardest one i've ever broken in (out of around 30 over the years) He was a big rearer but luckily this has passed now.
Obviously all the normal things have been checked
any excercise idea welcome!!
The below pic is him at his one and only ridden show last autumn, showing his green-ness (& the tense canter where i should have had a better contact! ironically, that day, he didn't launch in to canter and was very good, just a bit onward bound)
and just to show his width and cuteness
He's a big 5yold 15hh big moving Sec D, on asking to canter, he has a tendency to tense, and often launch in to a massive canter.
I understand that a good canter comes from a good balanced trot etc. I never ask for canter until he is fully warmed up and relaxed. i stay calm, i sit still and at the moment i am 'riding it out' quietly until he settles (half a lap?).
We have our first RC clinic of the year next week, but i would like other opinions too.
He is one of lifes worriers, he was the hardest one i've ever broken in (out of around 30 over the years) He was a big rearer but luckily this has passed now.
Obviously all the normal things have been checked
any excercise idea welcome!!
The below pic is him at his one and only ridden show last autumn, showing his green-ness (& the tense canter where i should have had a better contact! ironically, that day, he didn't launch in to canter and was very good, just a bit onward bound)
and just to show his width and cuteness