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| Not Carl Hester. |
Dressage rider Jane Hannigan posted these wonderful little nuggets from Carl Hester recently.
I hope it's ok that I copied them and am posting them here. Really good little tips!
(Hamp and I are preparing for our first rated show of the season next weekend. It's nose to the grindstone, but will give an update soon)
ENJOY!
To get a good walk think of rowing with your arm not just pushing more with the leg, the nose should nod forward in the walk not upwards, forwards and out with the nose and your arms
🐙 So easy to do the hokey pokey when teaching changes, you fall all over the place trying to stay up to them. The key to good changes is walk canter walk with straightness
🙈 When riding a young horse be SAFE first then work on gymnastic training
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🖐🏻 At 4 they don't understand leg and rein together "start with the leg stop with the reins"
👀 Look in front of the saddle for wrinkles in the neck
🙄 What are the AIDS for canter, I use outside leg, some riders say it's inside but that's not how you do flying changes
😎 The learning process is two days on then day off in the field at Carl's yard, he feels they get it on day two in the learning process
🚲 When you bend a horse you are not holding handle bars, letting the outside slip out is wrong. Keep the contact on the outside rein. Don't let them fall out the outside shoulder
🌞 If you are a one horse owner at 5 they have been ridden for one year but they are having growth spurts and such and sometimes they need a holiday
🤔 These 5 year old tests they have canter walk canter, medium trots and it takes a really good rider to train these tests. The older horses still have difficulty in these movements
👑 Half halts last for one stride, check release, let go🏇 Get out in front of me it doesn't have to be perfect but gets the horse in front of you
😂 Horse spooked At Carl he said "I'm not that bad, I even had a shower this morning!" We all laughed
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 True meaning of short reins win medals, Keep your hands in front of the saddle that will help you ride to the bit, not the front to the back
💥 Quite hot but not forward, you need to get them genuinely in front of you to the contact🌞
🌝 Rise three steps sit rise three steps sit, to test the back to see if they change
✨ Carl at home has everyone do lots of rising trot shoulder in and halfpass
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Trot long side walk corners so you can place the hind leg in the corners. When they anticipate walk then trot the corners and close your fingers before the corner then ride forward in the short side close your fingers again before the corner then ride forward again
🍒 You will be surprised how quickly you ride 100 transitions |
| Who is this Carl guy and why do I care? |
🌊 Long flat horses do not benefit from long stretches but short horses will benefit greatly
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🍊 A great Gp walk is different than a great young horse walk because the very big walks are difficult to collect, sometimes the big walks can do both
🕊 If you hold and tap at the same time that's not right because then the hind leg gets stuck
🐎 Train the horse to Anticipate going forward in collected canter
🙏🏻 You don't get the horse on the hind legs in a few minutes but it takes a few years, be patient
😍 8 meters shoulder in then straight in outside rein then go on a little diagonal line in not leg yeild, and then shoulder in again then in on the diaganol line again then shoulder in again⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Every moment has a start a middle and a finish, start is the corner before the movement😍 Bring the horse on the spot ride forward three strides then do the change with no hands 
😳🏇 Canter on the spot then Go go go release (ask on the release) then right away back to canter on the spot so you can develop good changes. Do this around the arena on the rail 
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🦄 Teach them to canter on the spot right after the forward change
🎆 Pirouette prep: Shoulder in haunches in alternately on a 10 meter canter circle. Forward haunches in to a forward shoulder in not sitting too much🙈 Give someone a thing to pirr around so they don't do one the size of a roundabout (Carl stood in the spot and the rider did a half pirr around him)🍎 Trotting left to the corner halt, and turn on the forehand into the corner from your right leg then ride forward in the new direction. Teaches the horse to stop turning before you ask on the corners🍊 In canter left, long side down to corner halt no left turn, now turn rt pick up rt canter❤️ Some horses need to know where they are going not just being surprised in the test, valegro needed to learn the test
🎳 When you do a halfpass lean over and look at the inside hind, it helps you learn to go with the horse instead of sitting the wrong way🏇 Do difficult change to the outside (on the wall) like if the horse is running away in its change
🏆 Be very detailed in how the horse steps forward in the downward transition
🏹 In canter Halfpass to centerline, shoulder in up centerline, do the corner past c-h haunches in like a baby schooling pirouette, repeat🎳 Think shoulder in with two reins on three tracks not 4🙈 Working off the track is a true eye opener in shoulder in to see who has real control of the horse😂 It's called shoulder in not quarters out😂😂😂 I can give you a 9, I can't give you a 10 because you are not British
😉 Taking a risk as a rider and go to a judges convention, it will teach you what you should be doing🐎 In canter no bend take shoulders to inside of a spiraling circle, it helps straighten the shoulders😎 Centerline in canter, shoulder in left switch to shoulder in rt then change and stay in shoulder in rt, help get you ready for canter zig zags😳
😜 Especially when she doesn't sit like a Christmas fairy she rides very well🍎 Treat it like a trot passage so he doesn't slow down to passage, make them trot behind so they stay quicker until they get stronger🦄 Passage Come back more active, forward the horse gets to relax they soon learn to find forward relaxing. Passage one step on the spot in very collected then forwards no hands
🐴To get to GP the horse needs to push onto the bit not be just light, light is not self carriage in a young horse
