{"id":2025,"date":"2019-03-22T22:10:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T22:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:37:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:37:39","slug":"training-tip-video-preparing-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/22\/training-tip-video-preparing-to-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Tip Video: &#8220;Preparing to Ride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video hopefully shows two of the things I always strive to get over time to make mounting better. The first is asking the horse to square his feet up so that he&#8217;s balanced and ready for me to be on his back, the second is asking the horse to learn to sidle up to the mounting block and later whatever I am standing on to mount (ie. gate, large stone, quad bike, another horse!). These two things get better with practise so I will film us again doing these after our first 7 practise sessions to show how we&#8217;re getting on with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/apGITt5kmE8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And here is a short update on &#8216;squaring up&#8217; with Spirit&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EwO09vs0iro\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shelley &#8211; HorseSavvy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video hopefully shows two of the things I always strive to get over time to make mounting better. The first is asking the horse to square his feet up so that he&#8217;s balanced and ready for me to be on his back, the second is asking the horse to learn to sidle up to [&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":[333,67,331,332,228],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-tip-videos","tag-mounting-block","tag-relaxation","tag-sidle-to-mount","tag-squaring-up","tag-training-tip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","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=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}