Learning the Canter in the Two Point?

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[Skib]

No one online can tell you whether or not your teacher is wrong. Please be safe. Safety is the top priority.

I agree about needing to watch adults canter.' There only small children at my RS so I learned by watching polo players canter.

Furthermore your post does not say whether you are learning to canter in a school (which has corners) or out on a hack on a straightish track and possible a hill.
I can however tell you that my own first canters were in two point. It is long ago now. I was a teenager at boarding school in UK with no regular riding lessons, in about 1957, my mother booked for me and my brother to go for two or three rides on Epsom downs. We each went on a lead rein and since we had not properly learned rising trot, most of the ride was in walk or canter. Like you, we were simply told to stand in our stirrups to canter and to hold the front of the saddle if necessary.

When I returned to riding as an adult, safety rules had changed. I learned to canter sitting. But before learning canter we were taught to ride sitting trot in the school, both with and without stirrups.

Learning to sit canter can be complicated because some horses including the one I ride at the moment, have a bumpy canter and will bump one up out of the saddle unless one slows the canter right down. So when cantering her I tend to lift my seat just clear of the saddle. This can have disadvantages for a beginner. The horse may canter faster if there is no weight in the saddle to slow it down, and the rider may be less secure on the horse if it spooks.

The big danger is that, if you are riding 2 point, the weight of your head may be well forward and, if the horse spooks or stops, you may come off head first and kill yourself.

We think of balance in riding mostly in terms if side to side. But one also needs balalnce forward and back. In the UK we have folding ironing boards and our RI used to tell us to imagine balancing ourselves like an ironing board, lifting our seat out of the saddle and pushing our seat back and then keeping a lot of weight in our seat to balance the heavy weight of our head going forwards.

I eventually learned 2 point by riding that way in walk (quite difficult) and then in trot. We did an exercise in trot of 10 paces rising trot, 10 paces sitting trot and 10 paces forward seat (2 point). This exercise teaches one to keep one's heels well down. But we were riding in Eglish tack and metal stirrups.

 

[carthorse]

I wouldn't go two point to ask for canter unless the horse is specifically trained to that simply because I would struggle togive the traditional aid and keep the horse together and balanced, two point is what I'd pick up after strike off.

If that's how your instructor is teaching then unless you have a problem go with it for now, If you have a problem talk to him or her.

I do find two point is a very secure way to canter, and as you're above the horse it's easier to go with the flow. At some point you'll want to learn to sit it too, but if by then you're confident with the often increased spead and different feel you should be more relaxed and that in turn may make it easier to fall into the movement rather than bracing against it like many novices do. I have to say if I'm riding a horse that's likely to get strong, buck, or spook in canter I'd rather be in a two point or at least a forward seat as it takes the sting put of any fun and games and also means my lower leg is securely under me to keep me on board!

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

I would add that some horses have a canter which is easy to sit to and others don't. Two point avoids the problem and I often use it if my horse Sid, who is usually a rocking horse, is having a bouncy day.

 

[Bodshi]

It's also easy to inadvertently train a horse to think two point means 'fast'. OH's old horse (who used to work in a riding school) had clearly been used to riders going into two point for canter, as he used to set off every time my OH tried rising out of his stirrups a little to ease his bad back