Horse training advice and training tips to improve your skills.
Whenever an idea forms about what I want to teach my horse Kyra I set it as a goal. I then start writing a training plan and make a shaping plan to achieve this goal. Goal setting My goal in this example is teaching Kyra to stand still, next to a mounting block, until I mounted and give the […]
How to teach your horse anything Read More »
This is a challenge a lot of clicker trainers face. You start making adjustments in your training when you start using positive reinforcement and it works… Then you suddenly find yourself in a traditional/natural horsemanship or other negative reinforcement or pressure-release situation figuring out how to apply positive reinforcement. How do you apply positive reinforcement methods
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Is the translation of a Latin saying. A saying with a long history starting with the Romans. Festina lente, maybe you\’ve heard of it. To me this has proven a very valuable oxymoron  and it is one of my favourite personal mantras in horse training. If you take the time it takes, than it takes less time. So many times I wanted a result
My favourite motto is… Make haste slowly… Read More »
How valuable is a behaviour to you when it is associated by the horse with aversives (-R, negative reinforcement)? Is a behaviour that is associated with something pleasurable /appetitives (+R, positive reinforcement) worth less, or more to you? Or do you not care at all what your horse\’s associations are with your ways of getting
Reflections on +R vs -R (positive reinforcement vs negative reinforcement) Read More »
It sounds contradictory: how can less be more? In horse training it often is true. We try too hard. Three examples of less is more. Don\’t over ask We expect too much of our horses. We don\’t realize during training that a learning process consist out of many, many baby steps, which shapes a behaviour. Work on one criteria
From a traditional point of view one would say: \”Just make him stop.\” How? Well, let\’s talk about ways that makes the horse understand. I don\’t believe in punishment, because punishment is not telling the horse what you do expect from him, it only tells him to stop the behaviour in the moment. Cause First
Re-training Bad behaviour in Horses Read More »
There is one very effective way to change all horses that are stubborn, dominant, don\’t listen, know what to do, but refuse to obey, know their job but don\’t do it, are a wuss or are playing us. One solution What? One solution for so many bad behaviours? Yes! It is simple too. Change your attitude about the
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I like to think about the future and I like making plans for me and my horse! I like to think about what I would like to achieve with Kyra. What would it feel like if we accomplish it? Here are 5 good reasons to make a planning to help you make your equestrian dreams come true. 1-
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What is so powerful about clicker training? What tools are used and how can they change your training approach? In this series I am talking about 10 of my favourite tools for training horses and how they changed my training approach to a much more horse friendly way of training. You can read about Training tools # 1
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This is part III of \’What is so powerful about clicker training\’? What changes have I made since I switched from Natural Horsemanship to Clicker Training? In this series I talk about my 10 favourite tools for training horses and how they changed my training approach to a much more horse friendly way of training. You can read
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