How To Sit The Canter Horse Riding
How to canter balanced on a horse
The canter is a 3 beat movement. The well balanced elevated canter is a beautiful pace to ride. As a rider you feel elegant skilled and wow ‘look at me’.
This is how it should feel
A rider without balance or stability will interfere with a horses natural rhythm. The horse will tighten his back, raise his head and lean on the bit “resist”.
To ride the canter well. A rider needs lower back flexibility, upper body strength endurance and deep core stability. The hamstrings need to keep the impulsion as the hands hold a gentle contact. The riders pelvis tilts forwards and
backwards as the horse rounds his back and then stretches into the next stride.
A rider can learn this movement out of the saddle by training movement and stability on a physio ball. The functionof core stability at the canter can be broken into stages and trained. A good rider needs a flexible lower back with movement through the pevlis and hips. The upper back is best kept upright, this takes good muscle strength and endurance from the holding muscles.
Applied Posture Riding teaches rider to ride. It does not teach you how to train a horse but ‘How to ride a Horse’. How to ride the canter is one specific exercise this prgram will teach you. The ball exercises are specific and will teach movement patterns you can practice. The how to canter exercises involve moving the ball in circles to gain mobility and core strength. The more often this is practiced the better a rider will become. The how to canter exercises on the horse are easy and give the rider that ah haaa feeling.
I have had huge success with tis prgram Go to the website and read the testimonials you to can learn to canter and ride well.
For more information on braces for Horse riders go to
