{"id":66,"date":"2020-09-25T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:12:03","slug":"comfortable-reining-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/2020\/09\/25\/comfortable-reining-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfortable Reining Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=561137327818619&#038;extid=bIuh0S1l2dIYDXwB\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Professional reining horseman and recently a million dollar rider, Matt Mills, demonstrates and offers training tips in his \u201ctip of the week\u201d video. His lecture is based on slowing and managing younger reining horses while being comfortable when transitioning through paces of the lope.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based off the video, Matt encourages the horse to have a very forward paced lope and then carries through with faster lead changes. He looks for the horse to give and relax into the cues after a fast paced transition. One key point he makes is humming to your horse and sitting back. From my own experience, when you&#8217;re comfortable your horse is also going to be at ease too. So when you adjust yourself to let go of the high paced energy your horse will notice and realize that it\u2019s okay to slow down at that point. A quote I find very known to be true is, \u201cI\u2019m going to give him a choice to either take that cue to slow down or he has to work harder.\u201d In a sense this is making it the horse\u2019s idea with a cue.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Week 1 (9\/25\/2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional reining horseman and recently a million dollar rider, Matt Mills, demonstrates and offers training tips in his \u201ctip of the week\u201d video. His lecture is based on slowing and managing younger reining horses while being comfortable when transitioning through paces of the lope.\u00a0 Based off the video, Matt encourages the horse to have a very forward paced lope and then carries through with faster lead changes. He looks for the horse to give and relax into the cues after a fast paced transition. One key point he makes is humming to your horse and sitting back. From my own experience, when you&#8217;re comfortable your horse is also going to be at ease too. So when you adjust yourself to let go of the high paced energy your horse will notice and realize that it\u2019s okay to slow down at that point. A quote I find very known to be true is, \u201cI\u2019m going to give him a choice to either take that cue to slow down or he has to work harder.\u201d In a sense this is making it the horse\u2019s idea with a cue.\u00a0 Week 1 (9\/25\/2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1262909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranchy-righteous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/showpensuccess\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}