{"id":423,"date":"2011-06-16T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/?page_id=423"},"modified":"2017-08-04T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T09:35:01","slug":"ground-skills","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/what-we-do\/ground-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; enable_animation=&#8221;true&#8221; animation=&#8221;fade-in&#8221; boxed=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;padding-2-percent&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_column_text]\n<h1>Ground Skills<\/h1>\n<h2><em>The foundation of success with horses.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>What do you want on the ground with your horse? Is it different from what you\u2019ve got?<\/p>\n<p>Many horses cannot perform relatively simple tasks like leading calmly, or standing still for grooming or mounting, and yet are ridden regularly. You can set the scene for a ready understanding of each other when on board, and avoid a great deal of aggravation and risk, if you know what you are doing on the ground!<\/p>\n<p>Groundwork skills enhance your education, connection and understanding of horses. <a title=\"About Join Up\" href=\"\/what-we-do\/ground-skills\/about-join-up\/\">Join-Up\u2122<\/a> or \u201ccatching&#8221;, <a title=\"Leading\" href=\"\/leading\/\">leading<\/a>,\u00a0 &#8220;lungeing&#8221;, working <a title=\"Classical In Hand Training\" href=\"\/classical-in-hand-training\/\">in hand<\/a> with flexions and rein aids,\u00a0 \u201cmanners\u201d in the stable and around the yard, <a title=\"Long-lining\" href=\"\/long-lining\/\">long lining<\/a>,\u00a0spook-busting,\u00a0 loading, clipping&#8230;. we can improve all this and more to develop a calm, happy, easy-to-manage horse.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; enable_animation=&#8221;true&#8221; animation=&#8221;fade-in&#8221; boxed=&#8221;true&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;padding-2-percent&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_column_text] Ground Skills The foundation of success with horses. What do you want on the ground with your horse? Is it different from what you\u2019ve got? Many horses cannot perform relatively simple tasks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/423\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisperingback.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}