{"id":905,"date":"2008-12-23T18:23:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:11:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T10:11:45","slug":"10-meters-10-meters-and-10-meters-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"10 meters, 10 meters and 10 meters again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Flatwork schooling in the all-weather 20&#215;60 outdoor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vin and I put each other through our paces today. I&#8217;m determined to get him working in to his canter circles in a much calmer frame of mind and with considerably more suppleness. He&#8217;s determined to show me how much he doesn&#8217;t want to do things better.<\/p>\n<p>When I lived in Somerset I used to school at <a title=\"Rosamund Green Farm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rosamundgreenfarm.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rosamund Green Farm<\/a> with Robin Dumas. Robin (a hard but exceptionally thorough taskmaster) taught me a series of bending\/suppling exercises that Mark Todd used to use.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon they came in very handy!<\/p>\n<p>Forty minutes and many passes through the exercises on both reins and I was sitting on a supple, bendy equine.<\/p>\n<p>And he knew he had been clever.<\/p>\n<p>The side effect to all this wonderfulness was that I had unfortunately achieved a state of being absolutely shagged out; Vin was pretty cooked too.<\/p>\n<p>But the effectiveness of the exercises is beyond question, we just need to be consistent and work at them.<\/p>\n<p>And when I say &#8216;we&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flatwork schooling in the all-weather 20&#215;60 outdoor Vin and I put each other through our paces today. I&#8217;m determined to get him working in to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}