Introducing the Canter Half Pass
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Canter half pass is HARD, but I want to demystify it! Hopefully this video will shed a little light on it
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A lot of you guys have been requesting a video on canter half pass. This week, I'm going to show you exactly how to introduce the canter half pass!!
Canter half pass is trickier than trot half pass as it’s a different mechanic. In the trot, they reach with one hind leg and cross with the other, but in canter, they essentially jump sideways! This sideways jump can be difficult for your horse to figure out even if they’re already trot-halfpass confirmed!
In this video, I’m working with Mercurio - a PRE who is confirmed at 3rd level.
Before you start working on your half pass, it is important that you have a good quality collected canter and that you have the following prerequisites:
Clean and crisp canter-walk-canter transitions
Transitions forward and back in the canter
Trot halfpass.
Shoulder-fore and haunches-in
Once you feel the canter-walk-canter and the collection are smooth you’ll ride the following movements.
First, ride shoulder-fore in the canter. So on the left rein you’ll be connecting the left hind to the right rein, pushing the hip underneath them and keeping a steady contact. This straightens your horse and narrows their base of support.
Next, ride haunches in at the canter. This lets you see how much control you have of the hind legs. If you can’t quite get hanuches in, you can a) flex your horse right (still on the left rein) and leg yield down the rail. Or b) do haunches in at the walk, and pick up the canter from the haunches in.
Ride up the centre line in shoulder-fore, turn onto a diagonal line towards the rail and then develop haunches-in on that line. This will give you a canter half pass!!
Be sure to stay following the motion of the canter with your horse and stay sitting on the inside seat bone!
This is a hard movement, I won’t dress it up! If you're having trouble, go back to the basics or even back to the walk and ride your half pass! This gives you and your horse a little more time to get the aids correct and finesse your technique.
Check out this video where I practice all of this with Mercurio and let me know if you find it helpful!
Thanks for watching and happy riding!
PS- If Canter Half-Pass isn't for you yet, I have a great FREE Guide to Canter. It's all about learning how to ride and how to improve your Canter. So if you're learning your leads or your lead changes, this is a great free guide. www.amelianewc...
Thanks Amelia. Excellent video.
Thank you so much for clear explanations on prerequisites and technique. A very timely video for me. I've been struggling with the canter half pass and this is certainly going to help.
Glad it was helpful!
Great demo on canter half pass
Wonderful explanation. Thank you.
❤️ you’re welcome
🙂Hi Amelia, Great videos! And all your points in this particular video are excellent and correct. Might I add one often neglected and often misunderstood consideration: To improve the canter (and its collection), it is (ironically) helpful to hand gallop your horse -- on the long side outside the dressage ring or out on the field. This strengthens the horse, improves their stamina, improves their breathing, improves their ability to step under themselves deeply, and mostly imbibes enjoyment of using their (near) full power, which is essential for the depth and quality of the canter (and improves the trot too) in the collected movements. The relationship is not obvious but critical and overlooked by many dressage riders. God bless!
Yes! Thanks so much for adding this!
Weirdly enough I have a horse that finds the canter half pass easier than in the walk and trot! He has a very balanced canter, but can get tense in walk and trot. Great explanation of the aids!
Thanks for this! I love the videos you do with the PRE's! My PRE exhibits many of the same issues.
You are so welcome!
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Hey Amelia, have you ever had a horse find the canter half pass easier to learn than the trot?
My horses canter work is always stronger than trot and was interested to know if there’s an exception to the “teach it in trot first”.
Horses are usually better at one gait or the other. The ones who are great at all three are really rare. It usually means that they need to work on longitudinal suppleness. Try staircase exercise, snowman, and lots of shoulder fore to help with this.
If a half pass is described as haunches in on a diagonal line, why is quarters leading referred to as a common mistake in the riding of this movement?
The horse's shoulders should still be on the diagonal line and 'leading' the horse's directional travel. If the haunches are leading, then the shoulders aren't in the correct position on the diagonal line. Does that answer your question?