Whether you’re training for a specific task, working on fitness, having agility fun or even just hanging out together you are always learning something from each other. If that learning is based on a great connection, filled with positive energy and sprinkled with achievable goals then learning is not only rewarding but fun too.
Keeping things fun can mean just that, to have FUN in your sessions with your horse, smile, laugh and enjoy each others company. Or it could mean keeping things within you and your horses abilities, that way there will be harmony in your goals. Try to find what your horse enjoys doing and improve on that, try other things too but if your horse (or you) don’t enjoy what you’re doing then there really isn’t much point. Life is too short to not have fun and enjoy what you do together.
Going at the horses pace allows us to give the ‘timeline’ to the horse and when we do this we learn that things can’t be forced. The horse has to be ready for the next step and if we build his education slowly and methodically then each next step will be easy to negotiate because the building blocks of education have been put down and we’ve waited for the horse to say that they are ready for the next one.