Walk-to-Canter Transition | Sloane Coles
Jumping
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6m 44s
Nations Cup show jumper and successful hunter/equitation competitor Sloane Coles demonstrates the important exercise of properly executing a straight walk-canter transition. She shows all the rider aids and position of the horse that starts with walking a straight line and goes to asking the horse to canter while straight and walking off the rail.
This is the second step in her program to balance your horse to ask for a flying change after a fence.
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