The 2024 Canter Tranformation Program
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A Step-by-Step process that takes you (with your horse) from “OMG, no, please, NOT the canter!” to “Yes, thank you, my horse does have an AMAZING canter”
From mindfully laying the foundation of what YOU need to know and what essential skills your horse needs to have in place before the canter work can even begin… to cultivating the SOLID foundational basics every horse needs in order to produce consistently, high quality transitions.
Then you move into improving the quality of the canter itself through carefully constructed exercises that build upon the previous week’s exercises to build your horse’s understanding, confidence, strength, agility, and throughness.
Then you will move into the next level artistic work of “shaping the canter” with interesting and fun stirrup-stepping and aid sequences designed to transform the canter and enable him to collect, extend, turn (which eventually leads to pirouettes), move sideways (half pass), and counter-canter, which sets him up for easy, fluid flying changes. (Note: flying changes are not covered in this course, but this course will give you everything you need before you begin flying changes. If your horse already does them, then this course will make all of that work even better quality.)
Whole program: 18 weeks: August 2, 2024- January 23, 2025
🐴 The Total 18-week Canter Transformation Program (Value €3000)
Includes:
⭐️ Pre-Canter Preparation
⭐️ Main Canter Development Program
⭐️ The Counter-Canter finishing course
🐴 Guided, Proven Process
🐴 Gymnastic Exercises for the Horse
🐴 Classical Training, Biomechanics-based principles
🐴 Canter Course Completion Certificate (Value priceless!)
🐴 Lifetime access with upgrades to future runs of the Canter Transformation Program course for a small admin fee
🐴 "Mobility for All" Feldenkrais Lessons for your seat (Value €250)
🐴 Rider Imagery Lessons to help develop your seat further (Value €250)
🐴 Curated weekly yoga lessons to help your seat even more
🐴 Instructional and Demonstration Videos (€1000)
🐴 Feedback on your videos all the way through (€1000)
🐴 Support & Feedback from Thomas Ritter and the team of Ritter teachers
🐴 ALL your questions answered along the way (even questions not related to the canter)
🐴 "Come one, come all" Office hours Q&A coaching program (Value €1000)
🐴 “No Rider Left Behind” accountability pods (Value €300)
🐴 The Amazing Canter Transformation Course community (Value €150)
The 2024 Course begins Friday, August 2, 2024
🤩 What People Are Saying:
"An unbelievable course. totally outstanding."
An unbelievable course. Totally outstanding. I have learnt a phenomenal amount and can see a huge difference in how my horse moves. I was nervous at the start of the course that I would be the numpty of the students, but you can learn/study at your own pace and Shana and Thomas were always happy to answer any of my questions.
- Fran Griffith (Ceredigion, UK)
"For the very first time we have a canter which feels as though we really could do things."
"To be completely honest, I didn’t really believe that I could ever get my pony’s canter good enough to be able to train flying changes. Bella is a Dales Pony, bred for trotting not cantering, and although I’ve got her over her violent dislike of cantering I never thought I would ever get a canter I could really do anything with. She is also 16 years old now and I’ve had her since she was a year old so I didn’t really think we were capable of a profound change now.
Although I have managed to train nice canter transitions she always wanted to drop out of canter at the first possible opportunity. I’ve always been told I need to push her on, to get her thinking forward more but whenever I did it just unbalanced her more and reinforced her (and my) belief that we couldn’t ‘do’ canter. I could always get a nice strike off and usually a few nice strides but that was it, and that’s where we’ve been for YEARS now!!!
I’ve been playing about with the exercises on here recently… and in the last few days she has suddenly and completely blown my socks off!!!
She has suddenly found this huge, slow, powerful canter. The first time I was so shocked and taken by surprise I nearly pulled her up! It felt as though I was sitting on a different horse and just didn’t feel like Bella at all. I almost wanted to stop her because I wasn’t sure I was ready or even knew how to ride a canter that powerful! If you’d told me even last week that could ever happen with Bella I’d have laughed out loud!!!
For the very first time we have a canter which feels as though we really could do things and I really, really had more or less given up on that ever happening.”
- Helen Whitaker (Dunstable, UK)
"Yesterday we managed to do 2-tempi changes around the whole arena."
"The horse has begun to find his balance, and understand that it is a good thing for him, so on good days, he tries to seek it himself in periods.
We are currently also playing with changes, and yesterday we managed to to 2-tempichanges around the whole arena (it is an old type portuguese arena, 15x35 metres I think), and we have begun preparing for pirouettes and half-passes. Something that would be untinkable for me when I started the Ritter-courses in February!
Those wonderful moments, where the horse and I are both in balance, and I feel that I can use my body as a joystick to shape him and move him around, in a relaxed, but energetic way means the world to me."
- Renate Skeie (Portugal)
"The canter course is more about diagnosing and solving these issues."
"Last July I was working on all the many things I had learned in the What, Why, How Beta Course when I was lucky enough to get a spot in the Canter Course. Then I panicked. Tuxedo bucked when I put him to the canter on the lunge. I was afraid to try to ride that! Gabriella raced around like a train and yes, I was afraid of that too! My other horses were too young.I had seen some of the other course members riding these lovely canters and I felt at a complete loss.
Once in the course, I immediately discovered that what I was seeing with Tux and Gabriellla were symptoms and the Canter Course is more about diagnosing and solving these issues than it was riding a more finished horse. Throughout the course, I learned to recognize biomechanical issues and how to develop a horse in order that the issue will go away."
- Carole Cox (WV, USA)
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