Trot Canter Transitions

Improve your trot canter transitions. Learn how you can get those extra marks in your transitions.

Trot canter transitions come in from training level here in New Zealand and transitions are often where marks are lost or gained. Therefore how you train at home and attention to detail matters.

Vanessa is all about the details, training with purpose and having the discipline in your training. She loves getting the basics fully established to lay the foundations of later training.

Trot canter transitions

When it comes to improving transitions, Vanessa runs us through how she works with her young horses.

Improving the trot to improve the trot, canter transitions. Then improving the canter to improve the canter trot transition.

Learn what the common problems are and how to fix them. Here is a wee snippet from the video in season two.

Improving transitions for competition

When it comes to the competition arena, judges are looking for clear smooth transitions, a horse that is on the aids and a rider that is accurate in their transition too.

In Vanessa Way’s season two program ‘Mastering Your Dressage Movements’, she runs you through how she works on transitions with different horses. Each with its own strengths and weaknesses.

See first-hand what to expect, what commonly goes wrong, how to overcome obstacles and how to improve your marks in the competition arena.

Get access to the full video plus over 4 hours of Vanessa’s teaching with her season two online training program ‘Mastering Your Dressage Movements.’

Want to learn more? Check out these articles.

Accuracy in lateral movements

How to do flying changes

Centre lines and halts

Learn how to improve your canter walk transitions

Check out all of Vanessa’s online programs here

Want to improve your dressage riding off your horse?

Check out our sister site Dressageridertraining.com

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