Something awesome amazing happened at the group lesson today. It made Erin\u2019s day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lesson started. Flat foot walk for a while and next a few rounds of fox trot. I whine about the fox trot because someone has been training my horse and this fox trot is wonderful! I\u2019m in Heaven! I don\u2019t need a bra! Who has been training my horse! Note: Fancy has been in full time and now part time training for several years with Erin Patterson, a Super Hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fancy has had nearly two weeks vacation at home. I forgot how to ride until I got into the saddle today.
Erin instructed Fancy to work on obeying my hindquarters yield cue. She resisted and said, \u201cSusan doesn\u2019t own my hindquarters.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We practiced leg yields and hindquarters disengagements.
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Erin instructed, \u201cCanter in circles\u201d. Fancy wanted to switch leads, but I insisted, \u201cNo, not till I ask.\u201d Fancy sighed internally and decided not pop me out of the saddle today trying to switch leads on only front legs or back legs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erin further instructed, \u201cCanter larger circles. Better, much better.\u201d Fancy lost all desire to experiment with her leg placement.
Next Erin asks, \u201cAsk for a more refined canter.\u201d Fancy obeyed my hands cues on the reins. She was now cantering in balance instead of being strung out. We got to stop and breath oxygen. I would have taken off my long sleeved shirt to cool down, but riding in your bra is against the arena rules. After our brief rest, Erin said, \u201cNow, do a left to right flying change.\u201d
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We have discovered, riding a circle thru the middle is tough because Fancy tries to change before I ask and before her body is in the correct position. We did an arena size figure eight.
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FANCY DID A FLYING CHANGE WHEN I ASKED!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Erin and the group lesson people nearly fainted. I about died.
We are not done, but took a break for Erin to set up a pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a big quarter horse sho coming up. The Pattern has one flying change. We lesson people walk the intricate pattern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It time for Fancy and I to perform the pattern. Fancy walks over poles, goes into the flat foot walk. Pattern calls for extended trot, which is a fox trot for us. We serpentine, we canter, we do extended canter (speedy canter), 1 1\/2 spin\u2026trot off, go thru a fake gate. (No more gates because of touching something!).
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Pattern requires a figure eight canter with flying change right to left. Fancy did a flying change when I asked! Group lesson people screamed. Erin clutched her heart. I was still cantering and asked for extended canter down the rail and ended with a slide stop.
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Erin said, \u201c You got a left to right and right to left flying change. This made my day.<\/strong> You should probably quit now and rub her.” I did. The full realization hit me. She did both flying changes when I asked! Both. of. them. when. I. asked<\/strong>. I haven\u2019t rode Fancy for nearly 2 weeks. It happened. I wondered if someone had switched me to an alternate universe! Maybe I died and went to horse heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m still alive to write what happened this afternoon! I seem to be in the same universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who is this horse? Who am I? Something awesome amazing happened at the group lesson today. It made Erin\u2019s day. Lesson started. Flat foot walk for a while and next a few rounds of fox trot. I whine about the fox trot because someone has been training my horse and this fox trot is wonderful! I\u2019m in Heaven! I don\u2019t need a bra! Who has been training my horse! Note: Fancy has been in full time and now part time training for several years with Erin Patterson, a Super Hero. Fancy has had nearly two weeks vacation…<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fancy","category-flying-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","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=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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