{"id":1547,"date":"2011-06-04T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2011-06-04T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T01:20:41","slug":"natural-solutions-horse-camp-may-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/natural-solutions-horse-camp-may-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Solutions Horse Camp – May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took Nova and Velvet to For the Horse Ranch<\/a>. Velvet gets to stay there the rest of the riding year and be Jenny’s Ranch Horse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I rode Nova the first day and Velvet stayed in the pen by herself when Nova was out.\u00a0 Velvet looked a little anxious and upset, so I rode Nova in the morning and Velvet in the afternoons after that.<\/p>\n

Velvet put on quite a ground work display of athletic talent the first afternoon.\u00a0 You can tell when Velvet feels really good by her change of direction in the circle.\u00a0 She’s trotting or cantering online and I asked her to change directions.\u00a0 As she turns, she goes straight up in the air, all four of\u00a0 her\u00a0feet about two to four feet off the ground.\u00a0 It’s something to see!<\/p>\n

Most of the other riders in the clinic got to see this athletic talent. The ones who don’t know Velvet were wondering if I would really be riding this wild horse.<\/p>\n

Wednesday and Thursday we practiced a lot of simple and flying lead changes in the arena. Flying lead changes are difficult for fox trotters as they stay close to the ground.\u00a0 A horse needs a bit of suspension to do a flying lead change.\u00a0 To test this out, skip along the ground and then change your feet. Skipping is sort of like cantering with one foot in the lead.\u00a0 Changing to the other foot requires a bit of\u00a0hang time.<\/p>\n

Velvet and I did a couple of beautiful flying lead changes. That was pretty darn cool after all these years. For me to get flying lead changes on Velvet is fall to the ground and give everyone a huge thank you!\u00a0 I could only get them going to the right as my body signals didn’t work very good to the left.<\/p>\n

Nova and I need more practice. We need flying lead change consistent practice too which I don’t get when I’m out trail riding her. That’s a lie.\u00a0 I can do a lot of simple lead changes on the trail. That helps too.<\/p>\n

We did a bunch of stuff on the five day clinic.\u00a0 The flying lead changes are only one highlight of the clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took Nova and Velvet to For the Horse Ranch. Velvet gets to stay there the rest of the riding year and be Jenny’s Ranch Horse.\u00a0 I rode Nova the first day and Velvet stayed in the pen by herself when Nova was out.\u00a0 Velvet looked a little anxious and upset, so I rode Nova in the morning and Velvet in the afternoons after that. Velvet put on quite a ground work display of athletic talent the first afternoon.\u00a0 You can tell when Velvet feels really good by her change…<\/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":[3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nova","category-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}