legs and circles?????

[TheHoglet]

hi.
i read in a book recantly that if yr on the wrong leg cantering in circles, to put a leg behind the girth to change it.
what difrance dose it make which leg you use???
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!! :eek:

[Jen0209]

when asking for canter your outside leg should be slightly behind the girth to ask for the correct leg, if the horse isn't on the right leg it wont be correctly balanced :) or if you've got a well schooled pony and your cantering on the wrong leg, ask again clearly with your outside leg back and you should get a flying change.

[*MiRi*]

i think it is to do with the horse being inbalanced if the horse is on the wrong canter lead. Jen2090 just explained about asking for canter to get the right lead. ;) Think of it being like a trot, then you need to be on the correct digaonal for the horse to be in better balance.
Hope this helps slightly and i might not be 100% correct!

xox

[The Flying Irishman]

that makes it a bit clearer! (i am a slow learner!! :D )
ta

[TheHoglet]

woops!!
i ment to say that hear!! :p

[makebelieve]

There's an edit button at the bottom right hand corner of your post. :)

[Bay Mare]

hi.
i read in a book recantly that if yr on the wrong leg cantering in circles, to put a leg behind the girth to change it.
what difrance dose it make which leg you use???
arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!! :eek:

The others have explained the 'why' but to be honest if you're not working on or doing flying changes I would prefer to bring them back to trot or walk (depending on the transition that you're doing) and ask for canter again. In fact if you're working on transitions I would do that anyway so that they learn to strike off on the correct lead from your aids (assuming that your aids are correct) rather than you just correcting it once you're in canter :) If you are doing the lower level dressage tests they expect you to come back to trot and try again!