{"id":3316,"date":"2015-10-06T21:07:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T02:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=3316"},"modified":"2015-10-06T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T02:07:44","slug":"cisco-and-the-journey-to-level-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/cisco-and-the-journey-to-level-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco and the Parelli Journey to Level 4!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surely everyone in the world knows that Velvet, Sage and I completed the Parelli Levels Journey from Level 1 to Level 3. \u00a0If you don’t know that story, please buy the book and read about it! \u00a0Susan Fox Trotter<\/a>. \u00a0The Level 3 pass occurred some many years ago, 2001. \u00a0I’ve been involved with a few horses since that amazing accomplishment, but the desire to return to the levels journey never came back.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

I blinked and the perfect horse appeared in my pasture. \u00a0Cisco, my raffle win, is the perfect horse for the Parelli Levels Journey to Level Four. \u00a0It also appears I am ready for the journey to start again. \u00a0I love the journey. \u00a0The journey is a struggle to convince a different species to exert their mind, body and soul to my human requests. \u00a0Winning the Parelli games at a high level is the ultimate experience. \u00a0Having the right horse is very important to this process. \u00a0Lucky Star could succeed in this endeavor before my body hits the nursing home stage, maybe. \u00a0Lucky is not the perfect horse for this journey. \u00a0Cisco was born for this. \u00a0He is sensitive, smart and athletically talented. \u00a0It doesn’t hurt at all, that he is also gorgeous. \u00a0If I’m going to do amazing things with a horse, let him be gorgeous too!<\/p>\n

Each Parelli Level is composed of four Savvy’s, Liberty (on the ground with no ropes…horse is loose) , Free Style (bridleless, neck rope allowed), On-line (ground with 45’rope and 22′ driving ropes, and Finesse (riding with a bridle). \u00a0This is level 4, mind you.<\/p>\n

I have looked over the Free Style and Liberty compulsory tasks. \u00a0Liberty tasks are doable. \u00a0Free Style tasks are doable with some great worry about bridleless flying lead changes. \u00a0Good Lordy.<\/p>\n

The present day Level 4 is easier than the original Level 3 and some Level 2 tasks that Sage and Velvet completed. \u00a0Some of the tasks Sage and Velvet did in the original levels appear again in Level 4. \u00a0I’ve been somewhat disdainful that the levels program was made easier. \u00a0Now I’m really glad because I have a new horse to take through the highest level and it might not take me seven years to do it!<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I decided to start on Level 4 liberty tasks with Cisco. \u00a0The round pen is calling. \u00a0I went into the barn with my carrot stick and string, thinking that Cisco would accompany me to the round pen and the games would start. \u00a0Sadly, Cisco left the barn and ran into the adjoining pasture to the far side of the lake. \u00a0I sighed and went back to the house.<\/p>\n

Today, we had two sessions at liberty in the round pen. \u00a0We have started. \u00a0I won’t guess at how long the liberty tasks will take. \u00a0I haven’t yet looked at the Finesse and on-line tasks. \u00a0I will be forced to buy another 45′ lariat rope and try to love it again. \u00a0You almost have to sleep with your 45′ rope to get used to it. \u00a0Have I mentioned a flying lead change bridleless? Have I mentioned jumping \u00a0barrels bridleless? \u00a0Have I mentioned two jumps in a row holding two carrot sticks? \u00a0When you are holding a carrot stick in each hand, you can’t hang on to the mane. \u00a0I did this with Velvet. \u00a0Cisco jumps as nice as Velvet did long ago. \u00a0I have a good chance at not dying!<\/p>\n

We start riding in the round pen tomorrow! \u00a0Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surely everyone in the world knows that Velvet, Sage and I completed the Parelli Levels Journey from Level 1 to Level 3. \u00a0If you don’t know that story, please buy the book and read about it! \u00a0Susan Fox Trotter. \u00a0The Level 3 pass occurred some many years ago, 2001. \u00a0I’ve been involved with a few horses since that amazing accomplishment, but the desire to return to the levels journey never came back. Until now. I blinked and the perfect horse appeared in my pasture. \u00a0Cisco, my raffle win, is the…<\/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":[106,125,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-missouri-fox-trotter","category-parelli-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316","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=3316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3316\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}