Mastering Lateral Work and Leg Yield at the Canter. The Best Lesson Ever

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Today we had the best riding lesson in a long time. We practiced a lot element of first level dressage, and my horse Solo was AMAZING!.
We did walk-trot and back to the to the trot transitions, looking for quick response from my horse, and smooth transitions, avoiding Solo throwing his head up. We practiced the same exercise in both directions.
We worked in the right preparation before every transition. You can see over the video that on those transitions where I didn’t prepare enough, the transition looks kind of rough and Solo seems sort of confused.
During the walks, I guided Solo for more powerful movement, and not having him “dying” in the walk even if he was tired.
In every drill, I was focused on the balance and having Solo’s head straight in front of me.
We worked on tuning the use of the outside rein with half halt and pushed the lateral movement.
One very fun exercise was canter at the end of the arena, turn in the quarter line, transition to trot and leg yield over to the rail. This exercise combines different elements, but one very important was the proper bending. As we got to the rail, we transitioned to canter changing lead.
Trot, outside rein, right lead… transition to canter!
Tuning the counter bending on the leg yield and turning with the outside rein.
On the last part of the lesson, we practiced the bending/counter-bending at the canter to properly turn into the diagonal.
We finished the day with a stretchy trot across the arena, including a four loops serpentine.

Solo worked hard and he did AMAZING! At the end of the lesson, I was tired, but so happy because it was a great lesson and we had a wonderful ride.
You may also notice some new editing that we did on this video. That was part of our work on improving the quality of the videos. Please, let me know if you like it.
Thank you so much for watching. Please, comment below what do you think about our riding today.

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