{"id":3877,"date":"2016-11-01T21:14:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T02:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2019-11-04T19:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T01:57:26","slug":"remember-the-lessons-velvet-taught-you-susan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/remember-the-lessons-velvet-taught-you-susan\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Lessons Velvet Taught You, Susan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Velvet canter every time I asked her to leg yield at a lesser gait. &nbsp;We were walking, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter. &nbsp;We were in the next gait up, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter. &nbsp;Then I realized I was asking her to leg yield with force in my legs. &nbsp;I remembered that I thought about the difference between a cue and asking for a faster gait.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking the same thing about Cisco lately. &nbsp;How am I cueing him to leg yield and how do I cue him to canter. &nbsp;It seems to me that I&#8217;m doing the same thing for both of those tasks and we are having a problem with it.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I remembered that Velvet had already taught me the answer. &nbsp;The answer is heels. &nbsp;Velvet taught me that I should touch her with my heel to leg yield. &nbsp;She tried to teach me to squeeze with both legs with my left or right heal in the correct position to ask for the left or right lead.<\/p>\n<p>I also figured out today that when I am asking Cisco to keep fox trotting instead of slowing down, I should bend both knees and ask him to keep going with a gentle squeeze. &nbsp;My goodness, it worked today. &nbsp;We stopped breaking gait when I started bending my knees. and squeezing.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few people that will understand this mumbo jumbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did Velvet canter every time I asked her to leg yield at a lesser gait. &nbsp;We were walking, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter. &nbsp;We were in the next gait up, I asked her to leg yield and she tried to canter. &nbsp;Then I realized I was asking her to leg yield with force in my legs. &nbsp;I remembered that I thought about the difference between a cue and asking for a faster gait. I&#8217;ve been thinking the same thing about Cisco lately. &nbsp;How&hellip;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","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=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6042,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/6042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}