“Ten Points To Remember About Developing The Canter“
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First Chat – 042 – Jonathan McLean
Second Chat – 144 – Jonathan McLean 2 – “Ten Tips for Initial Foal Handling”
Third Chat – 172 – Jonathan McLean 3 – “Ten Steps for Further Foal Handling”
Listeners’ Choice- 211 – Listeners’ Choice Chat (042)
Fourth Chat – 292 – Jonathan McLean 4 – “Ten Tips on The Weaning Transition, Safe, Horse Friendly Ways to Interact with Young Horses”
Fifth Chat – 318 – Jonna McLean 5 – “Ten Training Tips From Weaning to Yearling”
Sixth Chat – 348 – Jonna McLean 6 – “Ten Steps To Starting The Young Horse Under Saddle”
Seventh Chat – 378 – Jonna McLean 7 – “Ten Points to Remember When Training Your Horse”
Listeners’ Choice- 394 – Listeners’ Choice Chat (172)
Eighth Chat – 543 – Jonna McLean 8 – “Ten Essential When Breaking In/ Starting Young Horses”
Ninth Chat – 556 – Jonna McLean 9 – “Ten Tips on Proofing the Riding Aids (From the Round Yard to Open Spaces in Walk, Trot and Canter)”
Tenth Chat – 568 – Jonna McLean 10 – “Ten Things to Remember About Proofing the Aids”
Eleventh Chat – 580 – Jonna McLean 11 – “Ten Potential Problems When Riding a Young Horse Outside for the First Time”
Twelfth Chat – 592- Jonna McLean 12 – “Ten Questions To Ask About A Potential Horse Purchase”
Thirteenth Chat – 606 – Jonna McLean 13 – “Ten Questions to Ask About Training Direction”
Fourteenth Chat – 619 – Jonna McLean 14 – Case study 01 “Frankie”
Fifteenth Chat – 631 – Jonna McLean 15 – Case Study – Ten Steps to Train/ Retrain Benny, The Retired Racehorse
Sixteenth Chat – 645 – Jonna McLean 16 – “Ten Steps to Teach the Horse to Start Jumping”
Seventeenth Chat – 658 – Jonna McLean 17 – “Ten Things To Remember About Coaching A Nervous Rider”
Eighteenth Chat – 670 – Jonna McLean 18 – “Ten ‘Must Know’ Strategies When Teaching Horses Who Rush Their Jumps”
Nineteenth Chat – 697 – Jonna McLean 19 – “Ten Tips For Retraining The Horse Who Stops and/or Runs Out Of Jumps”
Twentieth Chat – 711 – Jonna McLean 20 – “Ten Potential Problems With Horse Friendly Solutions For Cross Country Riding”
Twenty First Chat – 723 – Jonna McLean 21 – “Ten Important Considerations When Walking the Cross Country Phase of Eventing”
About This Episode
“Ten Points To Remember About Developing The Canter”
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“Ten Points To Remember About Developing The Canter“
1) Ensure that the walk and the trot, are adjustable in terms of length and tempo
2) Train response the Canter to aids/signals is important before we attempt to make changes to this gait
3) Once the canter aid is trained sufficiently, on the left and the right leads, we will also know at this point if the horse’s natural inclination is canter or trot?
4) If canter is not their natural pace. (i.e. standardsbreds etc) then we need to ensure that any adjustment with the rein does not cause trot. If this is the case, we really need to thoroughly train just ability of lengthening and shortening in the trot first before we canter.
5) Also, we mustn’t overlook the fact that we should be able to switch off the canter to trot, equally easily as the up transition.
6) We need to be careful that they understand the difference between the rein signals (i.e. shortening) and downward transition.
7) If the canter is not their natural pace, then the best thing to do is to go longer (possibly a little faster) before we attempt to come back to the tempo that they can do.
8) For horses that canter naturally. (My favourite types of horse) the issue is nearly always being able to switch off the canter to trot!
9) The rein aid for shortening, should be raising the pole, not bulling towards your torso, as we do not wish the horse to become shorter in the neck just to make his centre of gravity become slightly higher and a little further back.
10) For longer strides the upper body of the rider can facilitate this by lightning their seat and slightly going forward with the horse to a softer hand, and exactly the opposite for shortening.
Points to remember
- When we forego the lightness to an aide, self-carriage will be lost
- What does your horse offer you? Is he/she a natural cantering horse or not?
- Often using slightly upward slopes in straight lines helps practice the horse load his hindquarter, for shorter canter practice.
- Try to avoid doing too much in one session and break them into bite size pieces each time reviewing what you did in the previous session was.
- Shortening and lengthening the canter, provide adjustability for collected work for dressage, show jumping and also cross country
- Adjustability in all paces (in self-carriage) provides you with a very well trained horse
Jonna’s Contact Details
Phone: 0417 116 471 or +61 417 116 471
Email: jonamclean@gmail.com
Website: traintowin.com.au
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