| There are many different drills and training | | | | foundation. |
| techniques designed to strengthen a riders leg, | | | | One game is the ever popular Egg and Spoon |
| endurance and mental awareness. The purpose of | | | | Game on horseback. In this game each participant |
| this article is to discuss a few simple games that | | | | will need a spoon and with any luck only "one" |
| can help with these training goals while breaking up | | | | egg. You will need a Start line and a Finish line. You |
| the monotony of the drill, train, rehearse method | | | | can easily set up your start and finish lines by |
| of teaching. | | | | stretching a length of rope along the ground at |
| Games... Simple, competitive and fun have | | | | either end of the arena and placing an orange |
| stimulated all of us since childhood. Fun training | | | | cone on the ends of each of the ropes. |
| horse games can be incorporated with your | | | | The Egg and Spoon game is played by lining up |
| current training regimen or you can have a | | | | your riders at the start Line" on one end of the |
| weekly or monthly boot camp where you could | | | | arena and having them make their way to the |
| highlight the competitiveness between the riders. | | | | Finish line at the other end. The first one across |
| It is fascinating how competitive we become | | | | the finish line with their egg still resting on the |
| when a simple "Blue Ribbon" is at stake. | | | | spoon is the winner. If you have several riders |
| The competitive aspect of these simple games | | | | involved you may want to split the competition |
| will help your riders develop their focus and should | | | | into more than one flight and finish with a playoff |
| they decide to step up into a structured | | | | between the winners of the flights. |
| competitive riding event they will already have a | | | | |