How to Slow Down on a Horse While Riding English Style

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you some tips and techniques that you could use when performing transitions in the English style of riding. So the next session of transition we are going to do is a session of downward transitions. So we have her moving up here into a canter. We are then going to break her down into a trot. Break her down to a walk and take her down to a halt. We are then going to start all over again. Just do a few strides of canter, break her down to a few strides for the trot, break her down to a walk and break her down to a halt. Now you can do these transitions anyway you choose. We can go from canter to halt, we can go from halt to trot, to halt, just doing a few strides of each transition. Trot, really keeps your horse on its toes when she is not sure what gait that I'm going to ask for next. So it really makes here to be responsive, have her listen to what I'm asking her to do. It is a really great training technique that you could use. So this would get your horse a lot more responsive and listening a lot better to you. So that is a session of some downward transitions that you could use in your training routine."