Series – How Horses Move Their Bodies and How Riders Can Help Them – PART 1 – Foofalls of the Horse’s Walk

At the walk

The First of a Series on how the horse moves its body and how riders can help their horses! Series – How Horses Move Their Bodies and How Riders Can Help Them – PART ONE – Footfalls of the Walk Hello Everyone, As you all know I am a Natural Horsemanship Clinician and Instructor. I [...]

Series – How Horses Move Their Bodies and How Riders Can Help Them – PART 2 – Foofalls of the Horse’s Trot

Trot

The Second of a Series on how the horse moves it’s body and how riders can help their horses! Hello everyone, So last month we talked about Foot Falls. The Foot Falls are how the horse moves their feet. What foot goes when and then what one comes next. And last month we talked about [...]

Series – How Horses Move Their Bodies and How Riders Can Help Them – PART 3 – Foofalls of the Horse’s Canter

Chelsie Kallestad and Nizhoni demonstrate the canter.

Hello Everyone, This month in the series we are going to talk about the canter foot falls and right and left leads. So let us first start with how many beats in a canter. The Canter has 3 beats. There are 4 legs and only 3 beats, so this means that 2 legs move together [...]