Start to Canter: Free Horseback Riding Lessons

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Sarah Stetner I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. Right now we are going to get ready to canter. I'm just going to show you what you do. We are walking right now. So the first thing I'm going to do is tighten up my reins a little bit just so we have a little bit more control. You could either ride with one hand or two hands and showing classes you could ride with one hand or unless you are on like a two year old horse or younger. So I'm going kiss to him which is his cue to canter and actually put him into it and I'm going to have contact on his whole face not actually really tight but kind of contact. I'm going to squeeze with my outside leg because when you canter there are leads. You want the inside leads to go inside that is the correct lead. So in order to do that I'm just going to squeeze with my outside leg and he would pick it up. If you are training a horse it is very tough to do this but you just want kind of more contact on the outside leg so he picks up the left lead. So I'm going to go ahead and ask him to canter right here."