mat training

5 Benefits of Teaching Your Horse to Stand on a Mat

When you start clicker training your horse you might want to start with something fun and measurable. Key Lesson Mat training is an excellent exercise to start clicker training your horse. It\’s a very simple exercise to train and easy to understand for your horse.What does Key Lesson Mat training look like?Your horse steps with […]

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How to teach your horse anything

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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How to turn \”Standing on a mat\” into a reward for your horse

Mat training is one of the Key Lessons, the basics for success in clicker training. In the beginning the goal of mat training is to teach your horse to \”stand on the mat\”. Then you click and reward. Simple. But, do you know you can also use \”standing on the mat\” as a reinforcer for another behaviour? Make standing

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10 Tools that changed my Training Approach (III)

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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