Velvet did her normal extraordinary job during the clinic last weekend. No one else lives in a stable that has Parelli lessons every week, so it’s not hard to figure out why Velvet is so highly trained.<\/p>\n
We had riders from 11 different States attend this advanced clinic. There
\naren’t many level 3 clinics given in the United States (or world, for that
\nmatter). So those advancing thru the PNH system have to go long distances
\nfor these few and far between clinics.<\/p>\n
I got over the last vestige of my fear of galloping on Velvet (from the
\nbroken leg two years ago).<\/p>\n
Velvet and I were cantering very fast in the arena. I asked for a stop and I found out that her withers were badly out of place, so her front end was My cowboy friend, Brent, took me out to the 40 acre field and took off ahead of me. Then Velvet and I galloped to catch up. We did the same thing heading back and she galloped as fast as she could. I had no fear and was very thrilled. We did this after the clinic was done on the first day.<\/p>\n \u00a0I started tearing up right when the clinic was ending…high emotion\/fear. I had tried to weasel out of it, but Brent knew that I shouldn’t. When the clinic ended, I had the instructor access some of the tasks. Velvet Velvet did her normal extraordinary job during the clinic last weekend. No one else lives in a stable that has Parelli lessons every week, so it’s not hard to figure out why Velvet is so highly trained. We had riders from 11 different States attend this advanced clinic. There aren’t many level 3 clinics given in the United States (or world, for that matter). So those advancing thru the PNH system have to go long distances for these few and far between clinics. I got over the last vestige of…<\/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-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-velvet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nher front legs wouldn’t work. She fell at about a half fast canter. I
\nlanded right by her side and she rolled on my leg. The fall knocked the wind
\nout of me, so I had to wait until I could breath and feel my body before I
\ncould get up. Velvet had rocked back off my leg and then layed there until I
\ncould get up. If she would have tried to get up with me laying right there,
\nshe would have stepped all over me.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n“bound up”. The chiropractor had to have about 3 sessions with her over
\nabout 6 months to get her completely back in place. Of course, when she
\nfell, she really put everything REALLY out of place.\u00a0 My fibula was broken.\u00a0 It’s the non weight bearing bone in the lower leg. That’s the story!<\/p>\n
\nSo, I got that over with and I am very grateful!<\/p>\n
\nand I passed quite a few of them and we are elated. One of the tasks was to
\ntransition from slow\/medium\/fast doing a walk\/trot\/canter on a concentrated rein. The instructor said that our performance was the best transitions that he has ever seen.
\nThen I went home to feed the rest of the gang, tripped over the salt block
\nright behind JR and fell into the rocky mud…among three horses with feed in
\nonly one bucket. (Pride is only fleeting). Luckily, I was able to scare the
\nsquabbling horses away from my mud caked body!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"