Argue – Pin ears, hollow out her back, front knees brace – resulting in lateral gait.\u00a0 We don’t like a lateral gait.\u00a0 It feels\u00a0off balance. It makes the rider grumpy.\u00a0\u00a0 Fancy is insulted at something.\u00a0 She doesn’t like leg pressure on her body.\u00a0 Susan forgets that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fancy goes faster at the lateral gait.\u00a0 We have no slow down cue in the beginning\u00a0bracy ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At exactly the same spot on the wall of the arena, Fancy throws her shoulder to the inside.\u00a0 Her head is pointed at the wall and her shoulder is headed towards the middle of the arena.\u00a0 He body moves to the middle.\u00a0 Outside rein makes her body point more at the wall except she is moving into the middle.\u00a0 Susan tries to use the inside indirect rein to ask for leg yield toward the wall.\u00a0 It might work going to the right.\u00a0 It doesn’t work going to the left.\u00a0 She braces against the bit.\u00a0 This is not good horsemanship!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This struggle is between Fancy and I.\u00a0 Her trainers have won the fight.\u00a0 Susan, the Fancy novice, is not winning.\u00a0 After much studying of the Parelli Savvy club educational content, Susan decides to try what Pat Parelli advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started using the carrot stick to convince that shoulder not to move to the inside.\u00a0 Pat advised the method of asking Fancy to speed up.\u00a0 Pat explained to look up and squeeze all four cheeks.\u00a0 Squeezing my cheeks has never worked for me.\u00a0 I tried looking up.\u00a0 That made me seat adjust to the right position and when the cheeks squeezed, Fancy goes forward.\u00a0 Sometimes, without arguing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carrot stick discourages her from going to the middle.\u00a0 We also follow patterns.\u00a0 Patterns fix 99% of all problems people cause with horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m going to follow Pat Parelli’s advice to find the slow-down.\u00a0 I use the inside direct\u00a0rein and ask for small circles.\u00a0 This causes her to slow down.\u00a0 Amazing, it also causes her to get back into balance.\u00a0 Very small circles at speed get rid of the brace!\u00a0 Who knew.\u00a0 I play the corner game with barrels in the corner.\u00a0 We circle the barrels maybe more than once.\u00a0 We circle until the slow down comes.\u00a0 I just started winning the slow down and get balance game this past week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last time we were in the arena, we played the million transition game.\u00a0 We walked, flat foot walked, fox trotted and cantered. I actually got a slight inside head bend at the canter.\u00a0 That is huge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OMG!\u00a0 I was in control.\u00a0 Fancy was in balance.\u00a0 When she gets exhausted, we practice sidepassing down the wall and leg yielding through the arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1% improvement each ride.\u00a0 Fancy is a every step challenge.\u00a0 Every step she takes, you have to be thinking.\u00a0 There can be rider\u00a0unfocus and when that happens Fancy is glad to take control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Argue – Pin ears, hollow out her back, front knees brace – resulting in lateral gait.\u00a0 We don’t like a lateral gait.\u00a0 It feels\u00a0off balance. It makes the rider grumpy.\u00a0\u00a0 Fancy is insulted at something.\u00a0 She doesn’t like leg pressure on her body.\u00a0 Susan forgets that. Fancy goes faster at the lateral gait.\u00a0 We have no slow down cue in the beginning\u00a0bracy ride. At exactly the same spot on the wall of the arena, Fancy throws her shoulder to the inside.\u00a0 Her head is pointed at the wall and her…<\/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":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","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=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}