Cantering to a Walk

Video Transcript

"Once you have your walk to canter transition you can also work on the canter to walk transition. In order to have a very prompt and clean canter to walk transition you need to first get a very collected canter and you really going to have to be very clear with your seat and rein aids that you want a walk and not a trot which most horses would start with. So once again we'll start just by getting our walk to canter. And once I feel like my horse is really collected and waiting for me to ask for the walk, I'm going to use my outside rein and I'm going to sit heavy with my seat and walk. And it's ok when you're starting to walk that you have a couple of steps of trot in between from the canter to the walk, as you practice you will be able to eliminate those steps of trot and have a clean canter to walk transition."