So yesterday was my first day of playing with Gingy since I got sick last week. While I was sick I took some time to read some of Linda's articles on motivating the LBI.* That helped a lot when I came down yesterday to play.
Just like it says in Linda's article on motivating Remmer, I started really slow with Gingy. However, I was also quite particular to keep it interesting LOL. We did touch it for awhile with me sitting on and upturned tank. I don't think I've ever been that particular with him on touch it, so it was kind of a new game. It took him awhile to figure out exactly where I wanted him to go, but he got it. At this point he was starting to get more expressive and his energy we up. I felt like okay it's time to let you use that energy and see what happens.
I took him out in the pasture. Suddenly, I wasn't quite sure I wanted to ask him for to use his energy, so instead we played a little sideways game. Then I felt more confident to ask for some circles. I can't say I was suprised when he went right into the trot on the first send, but I was certainly pleased! It was really cool though because whenever I asked him to transisition into the trot all I had to do was lift my energy and point. This hasn't really happened before, usually we have to play tag LOL.
He did a lot of nice laps of trot(he might of actually gotten a work out for once LOL), but sometimes he would all of the sudden come in. That was my big puzzle until I realized that I wasn't staying in neutral! After I started relaxing, Gingo relaxed out on the circle. I also made another interesting little observation, I realized that Gingy was mirroring how I felt inside every moment. When I got nervous or unsure, so did he and when I was confident he was too.
Hmmmmmmmm, what a cool session :)
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