Warm Up & Banks, Preliminary | Johnathan Holling | PART 03

Part 3: Jonathan explains that the first thing that he likes to do when working on banks is to make sure that the horse can walk down and trot up them. He reminds the riders that when they drop off a bank, they must make sure to land into the stirrups and then into the saddle. The group practices the bank at the lower gaits, working on position up and down, and practicing slipping the reins and keeping an appropriate contact throughout the element. As they gain confidence they progress to a canter.