What do you need to do if you\’re clicker training your horse and while you\’re training you notice that everything seems to happen at the same time. You have no idea if what you\’re doing is right. You panic inside. Or you notice that your horse gets confused in training. It happens a lot! What […]
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How to take positive reinforcement and use it in riding? I will share practical tips in other blogs, but let’s focus on preparation. How can you make yourself successful? Key Lesson for Riders #5: Emotions in Riding This is a biggy! I see so many riders get frustrated in the saddle. I also see many
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In this series I will be sharing 6 interesting facts I didn\’t know about when I started using positive reinforcement in training animals. This is part 5. I like this one! Some of these are common misunderstandings people have about clicker training while others are facts most equestrians don\’t know at all. The goal of
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Are you tired of your horse repeatedly spooking over the same things? Are you getting impatient that he is still scared of object X while he has seen dozens of times? Do you think you and your horse\’s lives would improve if you could teach him to just \’get over\’ it? Here is what you
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Mat training is one of my key lessons in positive reinforcement training. It is a very versatile exercise and a good base for more advanced exercises. Standing on a mat Standing on a simple puzzle mat is a fun exercise to teach your horse. The goal is simple:Â the horse has to stand with his two
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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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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
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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
Positive reinforcement training is all about giving a reward to reinforce the behaviour you want more of. The key word is giving. If you have never used a bridge signal before, you start with the simple act of giving. In return you will get your horses\’ attention. Then \’training\’ can begin. Introducing a bridge signal (click) When
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