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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[Click here for the English version of this article] Deel I van deze serie ging over de voor- en nadelen van luring en moulding.  In dit tweede deel licht ik de begrippen shaping, targeting en capturing toe. Shaping Shaping betekent \’vormen\’. Shaping houdt in dat het eindgedrag wordt bereikt door het op te delen in zoveel mogelijk kleine stapjes. Elk stapje naar
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In this article I discuss the pros and cons of three ways to get behaviour with positive reinforcement: \’shaping\’, \’targeting\’ and \’capturing\’.
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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
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In the series about the Key Lessons (the key to success in clicker training|) this is Key Lesson \’mat training\’.
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In my previous post I talked about the key lessons safe behaviour around food ,  equine emotions during training, head lowering & backing. Another key lesson I want to encourage all clicker trainers to teach their horse is \’targeting\’. Targeting In targeting you ask your horse to touch a target with a body part. You start this
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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 a training plan? Is it really necessary to write it down? Isn\’t that time consuming? These are the things people ask when I talk about training plans and shaping plans. Training plan You don\’t have to make a training plan, but it will help you become a better clicker trainer faster. Why? Because
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This is the final part of this series where I talk about the tools I have learned to use since I started using clicker training. I didn\’t use them all right away and I use more than these ten I write about here. I hope they may inspire you to try something new. Click to read part
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When you are interested in trying clicker training one of the first questions is: what should I teach my horse? I suggest teaching a brand new behaviour which isn\’t dangerous. If you start experimenting with a new training method start with a simple lesson. There are 7 Key Lessons that are perfect building blocks to
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