This is a post from the woman (me)\u00a0who had given up on FLC as Velvet would never do them consistently…in 5 years.<\/p>\n
This is a post from the woman (me)\u00a0who was shocked to discover that Velvet had passed the L2 Flying Change Lead task\u00a0the other day while in a group lesson.<\/p>\n
Here’s a another shocker:\u00a0 I decided to work on the L3 task…counter
\ncanter. You must canter once around an arena or area in a counter canter.
\nVelvet has been making great improvement in her ability to counter canter.
\nLast year we were a ruderless ship while going around a corner at the counter canter, inspiring a lot of quiet screams from the passenger (me).<\/p>\n
SO…I tell her to counter canter and as we go around a corner, she does a
\nflying lead change. Huh? I say. Then we did a figure 8 to try and get back
\ninto the counter-canter mode again. Nope, we did a flying lead change in the
\nmiddle. Huh? sez I.<\/p>\n
I will set this up so that she can’t do a flying lead change. On the next figure 8 trip into the middle, I told her to go diagonally through the center. There was none of that come through the middle looking the way you’re going and then changing your focus. Nope, we just went on a nice diagonal through the middle with my focus straight ahead.<\/p>\n
Yep…as soon as she figured it out that we were going a different direction …flying lead change!<\/p>\n
GOOD GAD!!!! She’s become a gaited reining horse!<\/p>\n
I leaped out of the saddle, ripped the saddle off her back and took her to
\nthe treat place in the barn.\u00a0Velvet\u00a0and I have tried for 5 years to do flying
\nlead changes!\u00a0\u00a0She was rewarded greatly for her effort that night.<\/p>\n
Counter canter will come later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a post from the woman (me)\u00a0who had given up on FLC as Velvet would never do them consistently…in 5 years. This is a post from the woman (me)\u00a0who was shocked to discover that Velvet had passed the L2 Flying Change Lead task\u00a0the other day while in a group lesson. Here’s a another shocker:\u00a0 I decided to work on the L3 task…counter canter. You must canter once around an arena or area in a counter canter. Velvet has been making great improvement in her ability to counter canter. Last…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[65,66,120],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-velvet","tag-flying-lead-changes","tag-gaited-horse","tag-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}