The Leg Yield: Common Mistakes and Corrections

[@lauraducot8183]

I started riding at 5 years old. Grew up teaching myself on a cattle ranch in central Calif. Over 25 years I never rode an English style saddle and just didn't understand Dressage AT ALL! But...now at 64 years I don't ride any more yet still have a desire to figure out Dressage. First I found Joseph's videos which led me to yours. I am finally beginning to understand. You explain movements and how to achieve them so well I can feel the horse moving underneath me while sitting in my living room. Thank you! Your instruction is excellent and you are helping a lot of riders. Thank you and wishing you much success!

[@inkwhiskers9948]

Do you have a video on how to get a horse to react to your leg laterally? My OTTB goes forward with both legs but when I try one leg he simply doesn't understand and ignores it. I don't know the process to teach him what he should be doing when I put a single leg on.

[@CALFERERERERERer]

Great Video! thank you Amelia. My riding is improving with every video I watch.

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Thank you, that's so great to hear! Keep watching and feel free to subscribe 😀 Happy riding.

[@cynthiarowland3937]

So helpful. This is exactly what we’ve been working on and its so helpful to see the mistakes narrated by you. Thanks Amelia.

[@conniepaschall8313]

Please add when the asking leg is timed. I notice you give the leg aid when the outside hind is off the ground. This is very important to the leg yield. At least the way I was taught. Thanks a good explanation all round.

[@reneenowicki6859]

So helpful, thank you!

[@sabinelloyd8532]

My homework for this afternoons ride! 😊

[@asiorek110]

My problem in leg yielding is the horse is going to slow. He always goes to slow when I ride leg yielding or shoulder-in or haunches-in. What should I do Amelia? Please help me! I feel big diffrence bitweeen 2 sides in leg yielding. To the left he goes more left, to the right he goes more farward .

[@lynking0419]

It's a magic trick, right? Amelia ! Your living explanation is always touching. Good job. Thank you.

[@ruthkeeling-holt2031]

Amelia, yet another fantastic teaching video. I have shared with all of my riding students and 4H riders. Thank you for taking the time to produce such great teaching videos.

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Yay! Thank you for sharing with your students!!

[@justinetaylor5414]

Hi I have just discovered your video's and I find them really helpful, but I really struggle with my hand position and where they should be when doing all the different things, in one of your video's you had a camera that faced down onto your hands, which made it so much easier to understand what you we're saying as we could also visually see what you we're telling us. So I wondered if you could possibly use that camera when making videos that includes anything that relates to hand position? As I found the video with that camera extremely helpful. Kind regards Jay Taylor

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Yes! I am doing more videos like this!

[@christinegeldart7473]

This is a great video (as are so many of them!) but i really GOT the comment about keeping your body still because it is a leg yield,,, not a body yield. Magic. Kind of like the TV commercial from about 20 years ago for Rice Krispies. What the heck did you think they were made from?? love love love

[@martafrancis3488]

You are a excellent teacher. Very clean exact demos and instruction.

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Glad it was helpful!

[@falizianme5846]

perfect timing! Headed to a show thus weekend and have to do the baby leg yield in First 2! Will definitely keep this in mind to help my boy! 😊🙆‍♀️

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Good luck this weekend!!!

[@falizianme5846]

thanks! I'll be sure to post an update.... well...ummmm if im not humiliated! 🙃

[@markbrown7693]

Great video! Clear and simple you explain and demonstrate it so well! Thank you

[@kelliec8697]

As usual you explained that so well! Thank you!

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@yvonneschouten8973]

Great video again!! Love the way you show the way to teach technical moves and also show common mistakes by riders. Thank you for taking the time to make these teaching videos :-)

[@debistevens3238]

Thank you so much for this explanation. It helps tremendously.

[@maureenbrock6903]

Very helpful thanks! It helps that you stated “right leg and left rein” etc instead of inside and outside

[@aimeepratt3646]

This gave me such a lot to think about! At first I was wondering why I thought my horses shoulders looked straight but when I turned around his hind legs would be on a diagonal?! But now I think I just need to be asking him more from my opposite legs to cross over- will definitely try facing the wall! Thanks so much :)

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

👍👍😁

[@lorrainecoughlan2691]

Very good explanation, and example 😊❤

[@jenniraines603]

Outstanding

[@Kelly-pr4eb]

Thank you Amelia! My horse blows through his left shoulder and countermands far too much to the right. I haven't been having much success teaching him to do it correctly. I think your instruction will help me help him.

[@danw6014]

That's a great idea to use the wall like that. Great video. I enjoy watching you ride.

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Yes, the wall is really helpful!!

[@shaunahuysmans4899]

Your video's are helping me so much! You explain everything very clear. Could you maybe make a video about introducing/teaching your horse to stepping backwards? Thanks again for improving my riding from the other side of the world :) Greetings from Belgium x

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Glad they are helpful! Yes, I should do one on the rein back!!

[@CK-uh4wq]

What is the difference between a leg yield and a half pass? Is a leg yield in a slightly diagonal direction?

[@spaziocasainterioare1656]

I certainly miss this video!! I am trying so hard and still cant succeed :( Doing ground work he does perfectly! So, i am the one doing a mistake some where!! Aids are so easy to apply so i really do not understand what i do wrong! Or Maybe Lord Byron just does not want to leg yield!!! Tomorrow ill try again with an help on ground. This video will be so important among others regarding the same topic. Thank you so so much! You are so precious and so attentive to all details! Amazing!! Thank you!!!

[@kimberlybiczis7340]

Thank you , you make sooo much more understanding. 🐎❤

[@MrLoilax]

Thank you

[@cleliaoconnell3705]

Great video! It's something I'm working hard on with my horse. How do you deal with horses who don't answer well to the leg? He is physically sensitive, like all sporthorses, but he ignores it when I press it to ask for leg yielding. I need to really push my calves and heels into him for him to do it... When he responds, he does it great.

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Sometimes it is helpful to use the whip to support the leg aid in the beginning.

[@cleliaoconnell3705]

@@AmeliaNewcombDressage That's what we're doing, thank you for the advice:)

[@jessie333]

So helpful!! Thank you so much!!

[@joannlewis8670]

Great video explanation!!!

[@juliefranck8510]

Amelia, thank you ever so much for these videos! This is another extremely helpful video! May many Blessings be yours!

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Thank you!!

[@joannesimpson1490]

Hi. Can you clear up a little confusion please? I have always been taught leg on the girth controls the shoulder on that side and leg behind the girth controls the hind quarter on that side. So if I am using my inside leg to ask the horse’s inside hind to step across, why would my leg be on the girth and not behind it? Also does the outside leg have a role during leg yielding at all? Sorry, not criticising. I genuinely want to learn.

[@kellyandthehorses2877]

Thank you. I finally understand the yield on the wall exercise. I am going to try again today..... :)

[@JD7980]

Ha! I'm that rider that does funky things with his body . But I also just started riding dressage . Very well broken down

[@paulabee4645]

Wow, some"Aha" moments in this video. As usual, you break it down so well & it helps so much to see it from different angles and sides. I have not been doing my job as a rider😮

[@debistevens3238]

Being relatively new to dressage terminology, my understanding of keeping an outside rein means you actually lightly touch the horse's neck with the outside rein without crossing over at the withers. Is this correct? Secondly, I am also working to achieve a correct position, quiet hands, better seat, doing many transitions etc. Doing the same thing over and over to correct me is very boring for my horse. Am I correct in assuming, adding new behaviors to keeping my arena work interesting is what I should do? My horse, is an Arabian, sensitive, and very smart. Your trip to Holland and Europe sounds like it was fantastic. I am looking forward to seeing the video! Thanks much for your help.

[@mackenzieirvine8943]

i am no where near as experienced as amelia so there may be faults in my explanation, however the outside rein isn't about touching the neck. If the horse is through the back and into the bridle you should feel more weight in the outside rein. so when she refers to keeping the outside rein you have to make sure you have that weighted feeling which allows you to have control of the flexion and shoulders

[@michelekanefsky7511]

Very helpful! Can’t wait to get working on it😃

[@robynmartin2026]

great, thank you!!

[@AmeliaNewcombDressage]

Glad this helps you

[@corrineglass2834]

excellent

[@eventerjazz6]

"It's a leg yield, not a body yield." Lightbulb moment. I've been trying to do way too much with my seat trying to ask for leg yield. Thank you!

[@teresabell8803]

❤️

[@SusannMarieDye]

Great video! Thanks again!

[@pab742]

Great little video, thankyou 🙂