yesterday we did some preliminary taping for L3 freestyle and I could clearly see the tail swishing/ear pinning when I was cueing her.
It really upset me as this is supposed to be fun for us both.
thinking out loud here . . .
I am thinking fun things, things that make her feel smart, positive comforting things like dwell time and passenger time need to be an underpinning and perhaps a large percentage of our time together???? New, different, interesting things . . . Time with no agenda, deliberately relax and no thinking/planning/analyzing . . . just being together???
Then there are necessary things that are not necessarily fun that we just do like grooming, bathing etc. Course I guess they could be more enjoyable with good massaging and scratches???? Or necessary like my riding to improve myself--being ultra careful to cue with phases. Stop, Rest, Treat.
Then there is the concentrated learning/focusing stuff. I guess that is the 20% in the 80/20 rule and that needs to be something where she can feel smart, like she is figuring out the puzzle????
Then with all this, does she just automatically open up and get exuberant because she is so happy? Or should I be doing exuberant things with her to bring this about i.e. we both love stick-to-me. (I am a LBE who loves to move.)
what we did today to find the exuberance? Today we did1. trail walk up the road to explore and exploration online behind the barn. 2. 20 minutes of dwell time in our play paddock for eating grass. 3. To feel smart we did the pedestal once and 3 times played with prep for liberty figure 8 which was really good and brought nice treats as a reward.
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