Dressage rider Anna Ross
A simple change is a stepping stone to teaching flying change and it aids collection too. My expert workout will help you perfect your simple changes in just 30 minutes.
Simple changes are not only a great way to prepare for flying changes at the higher levels in dressage, but they also help to develop your horse’s collection while improving your aids. Here dressage rider Anna Ross explains two exercises for riding effective simple changes
CANTER-WALK-CANTER transitions, also known as simple changes, are a basic introduction to f lying changes and come into dressage tests at elementary level. They enable you to change the rein in canter without doing a flying change.
Simple changes are ridden at elementary, medium and advanced medium levels. Their primary purpose is to teach your horse to collect the canter and it’s a similar preparatory exercise for more difficult movements, such as the canter pirouette. It’s also necessary as a preparation for when you begin to enter the arena in canter, and there’s a walk to canter transition at novice, too, so it expands through all the levels. Simple changes are one of the building blocks for collection.