Amelia’s Flying Changes Checklist

Is your horse ready for Flying Changes?

Discover the 5 exercises your horse should master BEFORE you teach the flying changes. This is a FREE downloadable PDF assessment and exercise list.

Don't miss this if...

  • You’re scared of asking for a flying change
  • Flying changes feel impossible
  • You can't get a clean change not matter what you do.
  • You want to move up the levels, BUT you can’t do a flying change!
Five digital workbook pages display horseback riding exercises in a structured PDF Checklist format. The center page presents Amelia’s Flying Changes Checklist, featuring a rider performing clean flying changes on a bay horse; the Amelias Dressage Academy logo is present. Other pages include lateral movement tips such as shoulder-in, leg yield, and haunches-in, along with photos illustrating correct seat and rein aids for each exercise.

Any horse can learn flying changes with the right preparation.

Before I Teach the Flying Change, I Master these 5 Simple Exercises…

I’ve put those 5 exercises into a simple checklist so you can assess your own horse!

What is covered in this brand-new PDF Course:

Part 1: The Checklist

5 exercises to master before you start flying changes.

Part 2: The Exercises

Step-by-step instructions on how to ride each of the exercises from Grand Prix rider and trainer: Amelia Newcomb.

BONUS: Includes video and written descriptions. 

Part 3: Assessing your Scoresheet

Know whether it’s time to start the changes—or keep building the foundation.

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Amelia and the Training Scale

Hi, I'm Amelia

I’m a Grand Prix rider and trainer, and one of the biggest mistakes I see riders make with flying changes is trying to teach the change before the horse (and rider) has the ingredients needed to perform it. Once your horse learns to do the change incorrectly, or gets confused about the aids, it is very difficult to correct.

That’s when riders start kicking harder, changing the aids, getting frustrated—and horses get tense and confused.

I created this checklist to help you take the guesswork out of the process.

Flying changes don’t have to feel mysterious.

You just need to know what to teach first.

 

Ready to find out if your horse is ready?

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A person dressed in formal equestrian attire rides a dark brown horse in an outdoor arena with a white fence and green foliage in the background.

We did it!!

“This was so helpful! I didn’t think I was ready for flying changes, but after practicing the exercises in this PDF I felt like I could try. I am just so thrilled- he did it both ways. Thank you Amelia!” 

Tina G.

This was what I was missing

“My Rosie is an expert at changes and she does them all the time with my trainer. But I was alwys being thrown around and she just seemed so stressed when I asked for them. After practicing Amelia’s exercises, I was so much more coordinated and now it feels so easy to do them!”

Cathy R.

A person wearing a helmet rides a dark brown horse indoors, trotting alongside a wooden and white arena wall with sunlight casting shadows on the sand floor.

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