Extended Lope to Lope: Free Horseback Riding Lessons

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Sarah Stetner I'm an expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. I just showed you how to do the extension of or of the regular canter to the extension of the canter. Also known as a hand gallop in the English words. Alright so we are in the extended canter. Just like this and now I'm going to ask him to slow down. I just go ahead and sit back a little bit on him, squeeze with my thighs and tell him easy and my reins are contacted with his mouth. I do have contact with my reins. So right here I'm going to ask him to slow down for me. Ease. Ease. So he did that very nicely. I just went ahead and sat back with my on my sit a little bit and told him easy and squeeze with my thighs and I kept the weight on my legs. So I just showed you how to go from the extension of the canter back to the normal canter and i hope you saw the difference in his speed."