{"id":6061,"date":"2019-11-21T16:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2021-01-16T19:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T01:16:55","slug":"best-group-lesson-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/best-group-lesson-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Group Lesson Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quote of the day: \u201cI can no longer tell people watching Fancy and I ride that Fancy was ruined at her colt start.\u201d\u00a0 No one would believe me.\u00a0\u00a0
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Highlight words from Erin Patterson during the group lesson of November 20th, 2019:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat fox trot is perfect!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLook, she isn\u2019t arguing!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHey!  Fancy looks like a Performance Horse!\u201d  (I apologized).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Fancy was doing a flat foot walk leg yield diagonally the long way of the arena Erin pronounced:  \u201cThat is excellent. Look, her ears are flopping!\u201d  (That is wonderful for a Fox Trotter gait and especially amazing to me that her ears were relaxed while leg yielding.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next was cantering.  Fancy was doing more of a four beat pacy canter that feels unbalanced to the rider.  I put \u201cfeel on the inside rein and fixed it.  We had a bobble with back legs so I decided the answer was to go as fast as Fancy would go.  Fancy flew around that arena!  We also tried some flying lead changes (unsuccessful).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, I quizzed Erin on \u201cWere we galloping?\u201d  Erin responded, \u201cIt was a perfect hand gallop.  Fancy went fast and was under control.\u201d  I nearly fainted at such praise.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve had a fear of galloping for nearly 20 years.  I might be able to be a barrel racer now.  Unbelievable!  Some of this fear erasing is my new rough-out Parelli saddle and my believe that Fancy will never bolt out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this group lesson I am incredibly honored to be allowed to ride with a ten year old beginning rider.  Mia often rides a different horse in the lessons to make her even more of a gifted young rider.  I was honored to demonstrate the canter while Erin was explaining a left and right lead.  I was honored to demonstrate my leg cue and Fancy\u2019s body position in the canter \u201cask\u201d phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mia is a wonderful student and talented young girl.  I look forward to watching her develop her horsemanship under Erin\u2019s skillful guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sixty year difference between two of these riders!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

End of lesson day…new accomplishment the next day, 11\/21\/2019. Fancy and I jumped the small size barrels at a canter. We\u2019ve been jumping these barrels at a trot during the past year, but I\u2019ve been scared to try it at a canter. I was thinking back to when when I learned that horses can jump higher at a canter than a trot. I fell off Velvet long ago when I learned that! I have beaten that fear now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quote of the day: \u201cI can no longer tell people watching Fancy and I ride that Fancy was ruined at her colt start.\u201d\u00a0 No one would believe me.\u00a0\u00a0 Highlight words from Erin Patterson during the group lesson of November 20th, 2019: \u201cThat fox trot is perfect!\u201d \u201cLook, she isn\u2019t arguing!\u201d \u201cHey!  Fancy looks like a Performance Horse!\u201d  (I apologized). While Fancy was doing a flat foot walk leg yield diagonally the long way of the arena Erin pronounced:  \u201cThat is excellent. Look, her ears are flopping!\u201d  (That is wonderful for a Fox Trotter gait…<\/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":[114,133,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy","category-flying-change","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","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=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6729,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions\/6729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}