Keket
17th Apr 2007, 05:32 PM
How the heck do I get it? I've done it on a school-master, so I know the aids, but how do I teach a youngster? Coquette's five now (or will be in ten days), and coming along with leaps and bounds. Riding her is a joy, because we've got each other figured out and there's no more arguments. She's not bucking at the spur, she's not bombing off at the canter, and she's holding a decent outline at the walk and trot. Canter is coming, and we're doing a lot of exercises to help her build up her topline to hold it at the canter. She's moving beautifully off the leg.
We've been doing leg yield at the walk for about two months, and she's gone from me having to dramatically bend her and push her over with my leg, to a slight bend and a nudge from the leg and she'll leg-yield right across the long diagonal, stepping through beautifully. She can sidepass across the short side of the school, and we're working on shoulder-in and travers. She finds these a little more difficult, but she's got the basic idea. In travers, she'll get a little ways, and then the haunches will start to drift back toward the rail. A little tap on the hind end or a nudge from the leg reminds her to move it back out. So she's doing very well.
But we can't seem to get leg-yield at the trot. She's managed it once, for a few very nice strides, and we haven't been able to do it since. I'm introducing it the same way I introduced it at the walk. Turn onto the 3/4 line, pick up an inside bend, but keep contact on the outside rein and move her over with the inside leg. But she can't seem to think "over" and "forward" at the trot. It's just "forward!" Any tips?
We've been doing leg yield at the walk for about two months, and she's gone from me having to dramatically bend her and push her over with my leg, to a slight bend and a nudge from the leg and she'll leg-yield right across the long diagonal, stepping through beautifully. She can sidepass across the short side of the school, and we're working on shoulder-in and travers. She finds these a little more difficult, but she's got the basic idea. In travers, she'll get a little ways, and then the haunches will start to drift back toward the rail. A little tap on the hind end or a nudge from the leg reminds her to move it back out. So she's doing very well.
But we can't seem to get leg-yield at the trot. She's managed it once, for a few very nice strides, and we haven't been able to do it since. I'm introducing it the same way I introduced it at the walk. Turn onto the 3/4 line, pick up an inside bend, but keep contact on the outside rein and move her over with the inside leg. But she can't seem to think "over" and "forward" at the trot. It's just "forward!" Any tips?