tips for learning to ride a cantering horse, and the trot to canter transition, with confidence

How Do You Make a Horse Canter? I remember taking riding lessons and cantering on a horse for the first time. Understanding canter leads and how to ask the horse to canter was overwhelming and confusing. In this article, I’m going to break down everything you need to know to ask your horse for the […]

BY JENN ZALA Personally, it drives me nuts to see beginners struggling with canter transitions. The kiss of death is when the horse winds up in a fast trot around the ring. It can be tricky to explain the canter transition to beginners, so it’s important to figure out what the obstacle is before things […]

Sitting The Trot | How To Move Your Seat. In this video, I will show you how I move my seat/pelvis when I'm working in sitting trot. When I was taught how to...

How To Sit The Trot Without Bouncing When we ask dressage riders about the most challenging part of their training, a great number of the answers will probably be “sitting the trot”. Challenging or not, it is one of the most essential parts of dressage training. If you cannot sit the trot, you will be doomed to stay

The gallop is one of a horse's four basic gaits and it is one of the hardest to control when riding. The gallop is the final gait an advanced novice will master, so it should be approached in a controlled environment with the constant...

Zoey Luna Equestrian on Instagram: "Farrah 🔥 my top 3 tips for getting a stronger leg over fences! 1. Long stirrups/no stirrups — this is a given. So many of us as a kid and young adult were told by trainers to drop our stirrups. The idea behind it being to learn to wrap around the horse in balance without pinching the knee which strengthens and quiets your seat aid. Though I LOVE no stirrup work, I don’t think every rider is ready or strong enough always to just drop the irons all…

Guest post by Katie Boniface of Equestrian Movement. Nailing the strike off and canter lead is actually super easy. What makes it difficult is that there are a lot of prerequisites to making it easy…

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