How to Canter from Stop: Bareback Horse Riding Tips

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Sarah Stetner I'm expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village. I'm just going to show you how to go from the stop to the canter and we would extend the canter later on the video. Holt. So I'm stopping him right now. In order to get him to canter and take off right I'm going to squeeze with my right leg get him to pick up that left lead and just get him a smooth going into the transition. My reins are going to be tight. His head is perfect right now so I'm just going to go ahead and keep the equitation line and ask him for it. So again that was going into the stop to the canter."