Emotions in Horse Training
Do you recognize and accept feelings and emotions in riding and training your horse? How do you handle them? Or do you just ignore them because you have no idea what to do? Traditional training didn’t teach you, did it?
Key Lessons (your Key to Success in R+)
5 Benefits of using a Shaping Plan in Horse Training
Using a shaping plan will help you make your training more effective and less stressful. In positive reinforcement training we need our horse to think about what we want and to make a conscious decision to do it. We don’t push, pull, force or threaten our horse in the right direction and release the pressure, force …
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5 Benefits of Teaching Your Horse to be ‘Patient’
The word ‘Patience’ is between quotation marks because this is not really patience. It is ‘just a learned skill’ that looks like the horse is patient. We often tend to think horses have ‘to know by now’ what we want them to do, but in reality we simply have to teach them. In my business …
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More about Mat Training
One of the key lessons in my positive reinforcement course is mat training. In mat training you teach your horse to stand on a mat with the two front feet. Once your horse knows what is expected of him, you can turn this exercise into a powerful tool to teach new behaviours. Applying Mat TrainingOnce your horse is happy to stand on …
Key to Success: make a Shaping Plan
Clicker training your horse can be difficult and confusion. The Key to Success is writing a shaping plan. A shaping plan is a written manual to train a behaviour from scratch. In shaping the trainer splits the goal behaviour into easy achievable steps for the horse. Then you rehearse and reinforced each step, until your …
