{"id":6077,"date":"2019-11-26T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T03:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=6077"},"modified":"2021-01-16T19:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T01:21:40","slug":"backing-up-back-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/backing-up-back-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up Back Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Backing? You want me to back? sigh…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

My wonderful friend loaned me a horse so I could ride while my own horse was recovering from stifle, later diagnosed as EPM. She came with past problems, but she was rideable. I needed a horse to ride. Winter depression sets in when you are a crazy horse woman without a rideable horse. Plus there is the sadness seeing your beloved horse with a limp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fancy came into my life. I got her and took her home. A few days later I took her over to Patterson Performance Stable to ride! I was anxious. Am I really going to ride? Heck yes. She has been trained to ride. There is no buck in her. There is no bolt in her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the trailer, walking into the arena. Life is good. Erin was riding in the arena and a witness to the following story. I suggested that Erin might ride Fancy before I did. \u201cWe\u2019ll see\u201d was her famous words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stepped into the arena. I started to lead her around the arena. Fancy invaded my personal space. She tried to walk on top of me. Oh no, that is not acceptable to me. I turned around and shook the rope. I shook the rope with a lot of vigor. The rope was ignored. She did not take one single flinch, much less a step, backwards. She was on top of me. I swung the rope so that the clasp would bang her nose. Oh my!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She squealed, lifted her tail, spurted and struck my leg with her hoof. It was such a light kick, that I felt it, but it didn\u2019t hurt. Fancy kicked me. She was also in heat. We went to war. If I had known that war was going to happen, I would have charged admission. When I got Fancy out of my personal space a few times, we went home. Erin did not try to prevent me from leaving because of her anxiety to ride such a firebrand!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started playing the Parelli seven games (which includes backing) in my new round pen. After 30 or so days and a hind leg kick, I managed to get her to back about six feet away from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fancy is a dominant, left brain extrovert. Backing means giving up the dominant position in our herd of two. Fancy has remained opposed to backing. I can get her to back grudgingly the length of my Horsemanship aides. After my stick and string run out she stops. Her backing steps are grudgingly given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have remained in my sad state of backing horsemanship for a year when the Kohout Challenge was announced. The challenge was to back your horse 20 feet using only your shaking finger for the signal. Ha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This video of Fancy backing 20 feet at Liberty with my body as the signal is a miracle! Thank you Hope Kohout for dreaming up this challenge to advance my relationship with Fancy. She is not an easy sell!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe better your horse backs and sidepasses, the better your horse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My wonderful friend loaned me a horse so I could ride while my own horse was recovering from stifle, later diagnosed as EPM. She came with past problems, but she was rideable. I needed a horse to ride. Winter depression sets in when you are a crazy horse woman without a rideable horse. Plus there is the sadness seeing your beloved horse with a limp. Fancy came into my life. I got her and took her home. A few days later I took her over to Patterson Performance Stable to…<\/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-6077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077","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=6077"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6087,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6077\/revisions\/6087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}