How to ask for collected trot?

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Maintain a milieu to light contact with the reins and squeeze with your calves and ask for the trot. Your horse's poll should bend slightly and he should be using his hind cessation to move, if you ask correctly. You should maintain a light contact and leg contact through the trot, your legs should, I'm not moderately sure how to explain it but I'll try, your legs should almost 'hold' the headset with the pressure from your hand and reins. Sorry if that's confusing, but I hope this helps. You may also want to consult a trainer give or take a few this since it is much for a person who is there with you to support you and not someone typing instructions to you. So I hope this helps.

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sit back in the saddle, find her/him into a trot, wiggle your riens so your horse doesn't go any faster, and get her/him on the bit. Get her/his go before down and it should take it from there.

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I've be told to drive forward into the bridle. Hold the same contact and pressure, a slight half halt if the horse picks up speed, and ride him into collection. It's really close to youre asking him to push his butt underneath him, round out his back, put his head down, get on the bit and propel his body from his aft with out speeding up.

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Answers:    Sit your butt tight in the saddle, squeeze your legs and sit back. Add a light touch on the reins to enlighten the horse not to go faster. He should naturally balance up and do a collected trot.

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squeeze your legs against the saddle,
hold the reins tight so that the horse holds its head large and kick the horse into trot
this should give you the perfect collected trot

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Just because you ask for a collected, trot, canter or whatever it doesn't show you will get it. It's one thing to slow the tempo but to actually collect is completely different.

First the horse have to be in a frame with their back up and hind billet "under them". I suggest you teach collection to the horse first and later you can learn how to sit the trot later. When teaching it to the horse it's best to start at the trot. And you want to post while asking them to gather since they will have to raise their back within order to have more collection and impulsion. When you post it lightens your seat and give the horse more freedom when learning to collect. So you apply leg first then squeeze your finger. So leg THEN paw. It shouldn't be leg...hand...leg...hand. It's pretty quick so you apply your leg first afterwards as soon as you feel even the slightest "surge" forward you apply hand then leg again to prevent them from walking(as you will be law it at the trot, because you aren't on their back all the time as you would be at the walk and canter.) Then when the horse get it at the trot you can teach it at the canter and then go rear to the trot and learn to sit the trot and have them collect at the same time. Lastly you want to inculcate it at the walk. The walk has to phase of suspension hence it is harder to collect. In order for a horse to collect impulsion must be present and impulsion is created when the hind-quarters "come under" the horse(which is achieve with a frame) and when the hind-quarters are under the horse then you obtain impulsion and the horse surges forward and uses their hind quarters and hocks more and it makes it easier for a horses hind quarters to come underneath them when there is a phase of suspension so therefore teaching at the put your foot is the hardest so when you teach it at the trot and canter first your horse can reconize the aids at the walk and already have a "feel" of what he is supposed to do. So that help a lot! Some people may say circles aid and they CAN but really it's more of a preference in that sense. For me its really hard to try to TEACH a horse collection and preserve my equitation(which normally suffers)and keep a proper bend at the same time so I dream up working on straight lines when teaching collection is easier for me but if you can do it on a circle then progress for it. People say circles help because it helps the horse to return with more weight on their hind quarters but I think that can surface on straight lines too. It doesn't only work on circles. Half-halts are your friends and will work on circles and straight lines.Good Luck!
Sorry for typing so much.lol.I just figured whether you didn't know how to ask for it then you probably haven't done it before and that would mean your horse doesn't know how to do it.

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