Flying lead change?

Question

i am just starting to canter, and i have heard people talking about flying lead changes... what are they?

Answer 1

Where you go from one lead to another without slowing down. It is hard!

Answer 2

Leads refer to the legs that reach the farthest forward during a canter or lope.  When you travel to the right, the horse's right legs should both reach farther forward than the left legs, and the left legs reach farther forward when you travel to the left.  When you ride in a straight line, you may choose either lead, and most horses have their own favorite if you don't choose it for them.

A flying change just means that you switch from one lead to another while all but one leg are suspended off of the ground.

If you want to change from the left lead to the right in a flying change, you cue the horse so that when the left hind hits the ground, the horse switches to the right lead while the forelegs and right hind are still suspended....and when those hooves hit the ground again, the horse will be moving on the right lead.

The horse is more balanced, coordinated, safer, and more comfortable to ride when working on the correct leads.

Answer 3

its when you change direction and you ask your horse to change its lead by doing one fluid motion. it looks like a skip.  and its done by keeping the canter through the change.

a SIMPLE lead change means you ask your horse to break into the trot to pick up the correct lead.

have fun cantering!!

Answer 4

There are two leads, the left and the right.

Most of the time, when a horse picks up a lead, it will be the same as the direction of a circle that he is going (left lead for when the horse is leaning to the left)

A simple lead change is when the horse gets the wrong lead, and the rider brings him down to a trot and asks for the other lead, and takes up a canter again.

A flying lead change is when the horse gets the lead wrong and his rider asks him to change his lead. The horse will bounce on one foot, and he will have changed his leads. Sometimes they only change their front lead, so for instance the horse's back legs will be on the left lead and the forelegs will be on the right lead. That's not comfortable, and is called cross- cantering. Hope I helped.

Answer 5

its when you are in canter, and you change the leg your horse leads with.

in any gait, you will always get one leg that strides out more than the other one, the leg depends on which rein you are on.

in a flying lead change (flying change) you change the leg that leads so if your cantering on the right leg, you will change and canter on the left without a change of direction.

you always do them straight down the centre of an arena though, it is unsafe to do them on the outsides because of the corners.

Answer 6

a flying lead change is when you ask your horse to change direction and them to change their lead to the other one. most horses learn flying changes by starting with simple changes where you trot 1-2 strides then ask for the canter again on the new lead.

Answer 7

if you know what leads are then it just means that the horse can switch leads [from right to left or left to right] without breaking to a trot.. basically they canter while changing leads like if you were to canter a circle 8 then you can stay at a canter and still switch to circle in both directions..

Answer 8

its when you change the lead your horses on when your cantering. you pull him back but ask him to canter the same time