I already asked a question of how to teach it....?

Question

What I have concluded is that many different trainers have different ways of teaching a child how to ask a horse for a flying change, and mostly all reach the same result, with the kid knowing how to ask. As the child gets better eventually the general child asks in about the same way. So how were you taught?

Also, I do know how to ask, but my way is probably different then yours, I just want to know everyone else's way, I'm not looking to be taught.

Answer 1

I am fortunate enough that the horses at my stable do flying lead changes for you. What you want to do is just keep riding through the corner and if they don't get it you have to trot and then canter. You need a really experienced horse to do a flying lead change. You can't ask a Green horse to do a flying lead change cause they won't know what to do!

Answer 2

I was taught to shift my weight to the new inside seatbone, change the bend and to slide my new outside leg back and to use my new inside leg. With really well trained horses, though, all I have to do is weight the new inside seatbone and squeeze the new inside rein ever so slightly and they swap leads.

Answer 3

You have learned one of the most important lessons of horsemanship...no one ever agrees 100% on anything.  There are as many ways to achieve your goal as there are horsemen and horsewomen to tell you how to do it!!!

Answer 4

What works for mine is to switch the bend, open the outside rein and use the inside leg. She pops right over.

However, I've found that a lot of the warmbloods we bring in are trained to use outside leg. They won't even think about doing it with inside.