🤔 What is the proper leg position for the canter? To task your horse for canter, you should bring your outside leg slightly behind the girth, while the inside leg should be at the girth. 👉 This leg positioning is crucial for indicating to the horse which lead you want, and is especially important if you are teaching the flying changes. 💯 Interested in learning more about how to teach or troubleshoot the flying changes? ✈️ Comment “flying changes” below and I’ll send you the link to my Flying
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🤔 What is the proper leg position for the canter? To task your horse for canter, you should bring your outside leg slightly behind the girth, while the inside leg should be at the girth. 👉 This leg positioning is crucial for indicating to the horse which lead you want, and is especially important if you are teaching the flying changes. 💯 Interested in learning more about how to teach or troubleshoot the flying changes? ✈️ Comment “flying changes” below and I’ll send you the link to my Flying
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🐎 Struggling to understand how to use your leg aids correctly? Here’s a quick tip to help you!Think of your horse’s body as staying between your legs. 🌉 When they’re going where you want, your legs should be passive. But if they fall in or out, they should run into your leg. 👉 If your leg is always on, your horse will eventually tune it out. I picked up this super helpful tip from Laura Ashley Dressage —go check out her account if you haven’t already! ✨💬 Need more help with your rider positi
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🐎 Struggling to understand how to use your leg aids correctly? Here’s a quick tip to help you!Think of your horse’s body as staying between your legs. 🌉 When they’re going where you want, your legs should be passive. But if they fall in or out, they should run into your leg. 👉 If your leg is always on, your horse will eventually tune it out. I picked up this super helpful tip from Laura Ashley Dressage —go check out her account if you haven’t already! ✨💬 Need more help with your rider positi
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As riders, we ask our horses to be supple, balanced, and strong. But how often do we hold ourselves to the same standard? The truth is, your position in the saddle is only as stable as the strength and symmetry of your body—especially through the legs. Building leg strength isn’t just about riding better, it’s about riding longer, softer and with more clarity, feel, and effectiveness. These three leg exercises are specifically chosen to support your riding from the ground up: 1. Bulgarian Split
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Feel like you are seeing lots of different riding styles and are a bit lost as to what is the correct position of your leg in the saddle for dressage? Or maybe you are getting conflicting messages from different trainers as to how to improve yours and now feeling lost as to what to do next. “When you let your leg hang with gravity without tensing your knee against the saddle, you will find the inside of your lower leg will be snug against the horse, at the bottom of the saddle flap three-to-four
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