I love that she is wearing a helmet, and I love her teaching style -- so clear and approachable. And ya know, no one had ever explained the difference in aids for bending and leg yielding. Maybe most folks do it naturally, but now I know that it's an explicit difference...
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Jane Savoie talks about bend:
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That's a GREAT 'how to'. Love it. Thanks. She is so easy to understand and it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI love Jane Savoie. It would be fabulous to clinic with her sometime. What I like about her most is how clear she is, and how everything she talks about can be easily used in other disciplines. I know dressage is the basis for all english riding, but sometimes dressage instruction becomes so specific and so convoluted that the benefits seem exclusive to dressage. Jane Savoie is the most clear, concise, and instructive dressage trainer that I've ever seen. She explains something, and it actually makes sense.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fab video - and how lovely to see an instructor 'doing' rather than just 'instructing' - it gives a whole new perpective.
ReplyDeleteAlso very timely as Caffrey and I have Issues with right canter...
I have many of her books and have met her. She is this cool in person, approachable and focused on straight-forward learning. I love that she demonstrates what she is saying, wears a helmet, and rides a "knight's horse".
ReplyDeleteSpiral/leg yield to canter has helped many of the lesson horses that my students ride as well as my own horse who was originally only ridden in left lead canter (gallop). ;)
Neat little video. I remember my coach teaching me and Bailey the exact same exercise. It is a really handy one, although we originally did it to work on controlling the outside shoulder, and then later to work on his canter.
ReplyDeleteExcellent video. And generous to share knowledge like this on the Internet.
ReplyDeleteI really haven't had too much trouble with leads with my horses. I've used some similar techniques, but also kept the concept in my head that the horse has to be "straight" on the circle in order to get a lead. It's more about the body and hind end than the head and neck. That's why the leg yield exercise is so valuable.
Bending and leg yielding have been different things to me. I don't know if that's always been the case but certainly has for quite some time. I would imagine because I teach youngsters their leads and regularlly use this exercise Jane demonstrated in the video to do so that is how I learned the concept in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI can't help but think had I had resources available back then like this video, I'd have gotten to my goals a whole lot sooner.
Thanks for sharing this.
I'm going to have to watch the video twice. I was too busy drooling over the gorgeous Friesian the first time lol. Great video. She explains things very well. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is a Friesian ... dear to my heart. Makes it easier and more entertaining to watch.
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