{"id":1381,"date":"2017-07-30T21:16:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T21:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2017-07-31T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T09:09:04","slug":"training-tip-video-flight-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/30\/training-tip-video-flight-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Tip Video: &#8216;Flight Checks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flight Checks are what I do after playing with my horse and before I ride\u00a0off from the mounting block. I make sure I have brakes and can move all four feet in all four directions (forward, back, left and right). It also lets me assess whether I have a good Connection and to help the horse get balanced and flexible before riding off. If anything needs working on I will either stay with it until softer and lighter or I&#8217;ll get off and work on it from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a short film of the Flight Checks I do and how they can progress. I hope it helps to remind you\u00a0to offer and find the &#8216;light feel&#8217; on the reins, where our weight should be and to use our focus, seat and leg aids before using the reins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aqgexLDZVIc?ecver=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Once you and your horse can do these with lightness and no brace you will find you will need them less and less. I use them before riding off and practice them now and then but because our &#8216;muscle memories&#8217; in our bodies and brains have the techniques and actions stored we can use them when necessary (ie. an emergency halt w\/relaxation) but can now refine them so that my breathing out and a lift of the rein is suffice to halt. I want the muscle memories there for if and when I need them&#8230;this one rein halt will not work well if the memories aren&#8217;t there, we would both be so far removed from relaxation that it would actually cause more tension and braciness&#8230;.if we can avoid that and teach ourselves and our horses to have a &#8216;trigger&#8217; of relaxation when the rein is lifted then we will all be safer in an emergency situation that hopefully never happens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Be prepared for the worst but hope for the best&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shelley &#8211; HorseSavvy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flight Checks are what I do after playing with my horse and before I ride\u00a0off from the mounting block. I make sure I have brakes and can move all four feet in all four directions (forward, back, left and right). It also lets me assess whether I have a good Connection and to help the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[165,196,85,16,198,71,195,184,197,28,199,47,179,70],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-tip-videos","tag-balance","tag-checks","tag-communication","tag-connection","tag-feel","tag-flexibility","tag-flight","tag-mounting","tag-one-rein","tag-riding","tag-timing","tag-training","tag-video","tag-willingness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}