{"id":435,"date":"2016-02-15T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/?p=435"},"modified":"2016-02-16T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T11:31:47","slug":"liberty-challenge-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/15\/liberty-challenge-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Challenge 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this can be done online if you&#8217;re just starting\u00a0liberty work yet but as you go along maybe test liberty or put the rope around the horses neck and\u00a0don&#8217;t touch it but a good way of getting the horse back if they walk off. Then when things get better take the halter off and just have the rope around the horses neck&#8230;soon you&#8217;ll be working totally at liberty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1) Trot to a hula hoop<\/strong>, transition down to a walk and put hind feet into hula hoop<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) Walk to gate together<\/strong>, open gate then back horse through gateway, close gate and walk off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) Transitions:<\/strong> walk forward 3 steps. halt. walk back 3 steps. halt. walk sideways (towards or away) 3 steps. halt. walk off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) Front feet on a pedestal<\/strong>. halt. Move hindquarters around the pedestal keeping front feet on pedestal 360*<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) Weave at a tro<\/strong>t through 4-6 cones. Up to you how you position the cones, straight line or circle!<\/p>\n<p><strong>6) Trot through scary corner,<\/strong>\u00a0but halt before leaving it. Back all the way through SC and then trot forwards out of it again<\/p>\n<p><strong>7) Halt horse inside a square made of posts<\/strong> and then walk around horse familiarising to some noise, either extreme friendly game with stick\/string or swishing of flag or coins in your pocket even&#8230;you find what you horse is okay with and use that. Remember this is not about frightening your horse, it&#8217;s about allowing them to gradually get used to scary stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8) Trot over a bottle bank<\/strong> (crushed bottles put inside a square made of poles). Try to make it so that horse doesn&#8217;t jump it and actually touches\/crushes some bottles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9) Fig 8&#8217;s x 2<\/strong>, using jumps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10) Trailer load or simulate trailer load<\/strong>. Either squeeze horse in from outside or lead in normally, horse must be relaxed and rope must be in a nice &#8216;smile&#8217; (slightly loose). Halt then back up any way you want.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shelley &#8211; HorseSavvy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LC6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-416 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LC6-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"LC6\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LC6-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LC6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LC6.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BxfNOobuhNs?list=PLfTkPqAMX5ygPe-icyPT8CsqxotC42qos\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this can be done online if you&#8217;re just starting\u00a0liberty work yet but as you go along maybe test liberty or put the rope around the horses neck and\u00a0don&#8217;t touch it but a good way of getting the horse back if they walk off. Then when things get better take the halter off and just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,10,9,12,11,19],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty-challenge","tag-agility","tag-challenge","tag-fun","tag-liberty","tag-online","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsesavvy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}