In December 2016 I started to offer an online course about Equestrian Goal setting. It\’s one of my fun projects and my students really liked it. What is your goal? I enjoy helping other enthusiastic equestrians with splitting their goals into achievable steps. It has been so rewarding for me to see people achieve their own goals […]
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I am reading a very interesting book. It is called Before Happiness and is written by Shawn Achor. You can look it up if you want. In this book you can find ways to improve your succes rate. The thing I like most is that I have already been using a lot of these strategies in my
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When things are going smoothly we tend to go on for too long or do too many repetitions of the same exercise. While we are still having fun showing off our horse\’s newest trick, the horse gets bored…
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We all know by now how important it is to set our horse up for success in training. We know how to do it: influencing the context in which the horse learns a new skill, keeping the sessions short, splitting your goal into small training steps and be aware of our reward schedule. But what can we do to help ourselves to be successful?
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[Lees hier de Nederlandstalige versie] We all know the fantastic feeling when our horse is learning something new very quickly. We are in a flow and our horse understands our cues and he is so smart. You don\’t want to stop. Have you experienced this? I love it. How can you reproduce such a state? Learning takes brainpower
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Horses learn in a certain context. Each change in the context of training your horse should be considered as a new criterion. Use this to set yourself and your horse up for success. What is a \’context shift\’? If you want to teach your horse something new, like targeting, practise this in the beginning always in the
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One of the biggest mistakes I see people make in horse training is that they don\’t set their horse (or themselves) up for success. Once you know some basics about horse training, setting it up for succes becomes easier. A common mistake is not visualizing what the goal is and planning how to communicate it to your horse.
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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
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Luring (lokken), moulding (manipuleren), shaping (stap-voor-stap vormen), targeting (volgen van een \’target\’/doel) en capturing (\’vangen\’ van gedrag) zijn vijf manieren om gedrag te trainen met positive reinforcement. Wat zijn de voor- en nadelen van elke techniek?
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The first thought that comes to my mind when a person tells me \’Clicker training doesn\’t work for my horse\’ is \’Why not? Is he sleeping?\’ Just kidding. (Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van dit artikel). Listen to this blog on YouTube: Horses can be trained either by using an aversive to reinforce behaviour (negative reinforcement, -R) or using
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