Domi, 7 years old, began to learn equestrian skills with Coach Marley at the age of 5. Every Saturday morning, she doesn't have to wake up from her parents and consciously gets up at 6:40. It was her customary way of opening the natural weekend, whether it was spring, summer, autumn or winter. She not only has to go to the CKUR United Knights League Equestrian Club to visit "Double Happiness" and "09", but also to spend the weekend with her sisters. Attentive friends can find Domi's three sisters in the previous article: Pomegranate, Xiao Lu and Zi Xin.
At this interview, Domi really had to thank the three little knights, if it were not for the encouragement and role model of the three of them, Domi might have rejected me. Not only that, but what moved me even more was that the three little knights sat nearby to ensure that the interview went smoothly in order not to let Domi rush to feed the carrots. Here, I would like to solemnly thank Pomegranate, Xiao Lu and Zi Xin.
As soon as Domi sat down, she told me she liked horses very much. She said, "Auntie, don't look at the horse as big, but it's very well-behaved and supple." Although she once rode the disobedient "Latin" and had to use a lot of strength to pull the reins, her "double happiness" and "09" would not. Especially "double happiness", going out to play is not nervous, the sense of distance is very good, never escape the pole. This made Domi very satisfied, she was responsible for watching the route, directing the "double happiness", the rest was all dependent on the "double happiness" to complete, the first time out of the game to complete the set goal.
In comparison, it takes a lot of effort and time to cooperate with "09". It took About a year for Domi to master the technique of not letting it escape, mainly to make its head go down standardly. At this point, I didn't understand it for a while. In the nearby pomegranate, I quickly came over to explain it in detail and also learned the appearance of the horse's head bowed in a colorful way, which made me understand. At that moment, the appearance of the pomegranate was very natural, and it was obvious that in the usual training and class, she demonstrated the movements and explained the essentials to her sister more than once! It was also in such a year, in such an atmosphere, Domi slowly mastered the method, and finally could cooperate with "09" to cross the obstacles. Little her, weekday training has begun to try the 90 cm single-pole obstacle.
Coach Marley's mixed-age group training model has won the hearts of parents. On weekdays, the children are exposed to the same age, only in the horse farm, this age difference not only learned to tolerate each other, help each other, take care of each other, but also let the parents chat with each other in the club lounge, very assured that they go to the stables to feed the horses and play. Only in the horse farm, they spend a lot of time together, the field is large enough, and the forms are diverse. They can go to class together, feed the horses together, and read together in the clubhouse library corner. This is completely different from other students in culture and art classes, and there is no need to rush to the scene. On the field, when looking at the route, it is also the sister pulling the sister, and the careful explanation of the horse coach can make the sister pass on to the sister in easy-to-understand language, and help the sisters better understand the route and technology. As for the results of the competition, it is even more that you chase me, and you can't leave a single one behind.
Domi, who went out to compete for the first time this year, did not look at his young age, got the third place in the pole level, and completed the set goal. What I didn't expect was that the reward she asked her mom for was to play with her sisters after the game until she was too tired to exhaust all her strength! With the encouragement of her sisters, next year, if the epidemic allows, Domi is also eager to go out to compete, and the small goal set for herself has also been raised to the first place!
This kind of face-to-face communication and friendship really makes them turn the weekend racecourse meeting into a week's expectation, into a weekly carnival. Whenever I saw the 4 of them sitting in a row on the couch in the clubhouse, eating lollipops in the same movement, or the kind of happiness I felt when I saw them holding carrots and feeding the horses in the stables, I would be deeply affected, and I would unconsciously raise the corners of my mouth and think: This is plain and real happiness.
Parents also get along harmoniously, turning boring waiting into interesting chats, and time will naturally pass faster. Even, Domi and Xiao Lu's mother suggested that I do another column, called "Friendship on Horseback", to express the emotional link behind this equestrian lesson. Because the equestrian class involves a series of friendships, adults, children, but also added a lot of parent-child interaction links, as well as children's sincere feelings with horses, children's gratitude to the coach and so on. Moreover, they were very willing to help me collect material and discuss topics.
At the end of the interview, Domi and her sisters took me to the stables to meet "Double Happiness" and "09". Domi told me that she still liked "Double Happiness" the most, looking at it, after feeding the carrots, Domi actually said emotionally: "I love you!" As if to keep "09" from getting jealous, she quickly told me that she had painted a portrait of "09" to express her different emotions! Haha, cute kid!
Horses are actually children, so communication with children is really barrier-free, this kind of love almost does not need to be expressed in words, but it can be more immersed in the heart, so that children can harvest happiness and warmth from the inside out!