Contents
How To Click With Your Horse
Contents:
Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Clicker Training
Contents:
Chapter 1 - An Introduction to Clicker Training
- Breaking tradition - Training With Rewards & Positive Reinforcement
- What is Clicker Training - An Overview
- Clicker Training and the Competition Horse
- Teaching the Horse Table Manners
- Habitat
- Defense Mechanisms
- Living in Herds
- Flight or Fight Response
- Claustrophobia
- Anatomy
- Laterality - Right Brain/Left Brain
- Right Eye/Left Eye
- Transference of Learning from One side to another
- Flight Distance
- You are what you eat, How Diet relates to intelligence
- Herd Structure
- Herd Hierarchy
- Wild Instincts and the Domestic Horse
- How Horses Communicate
- Examples of Body Language
- Your Horse is Your Mirror
- Timing
- Self Control
- Visualising What you Want the Horse to Do
- Setting Training and Shaping Goals
- Body Language and Energy
- Focus
- Feel
- Time
- Competition
- How Horses Learn
- Habituation - Desensitizing
- Learned Helplessness
- Classical Conditioning
- Operant Conditioning
- Five Possible Consequences to a Behaviour
- The Importance of Timing
- Marker Signals - Conditioned Reinforcers and Conditioned Punishers
- The Clicker as a Marker Signal
- Shaping a Behaviour
- Examples of Operant Conditioning in Everyday Life
- Training with Reinforcement
- Training with Punishment
- Cautions in Using Punishment
- Ways to "Get" and Behaviour so that you can click for it
- Guidelines for shaping a behaviour
- Rate of Reinforcement - Frequency of Rewards
- Setting Training and Shaping Goals
- What you need to start training - Equipment
- How much and What type of Reward
- Length of Training Sessions
- Steps to Introducing your Horse to the Clicker
- Charging Up the Clicker
- Look Away
- Waiting for the Treat
- Targeting
- Back Away from a visual Cue
- Back Off and Stay there
- Groundwork the Foundation of training
- Catching your Horse
- Facing Up - With the Halter and the Clicker
- Facing Up at Liberty
- Starting From Scratch - Catching the Wild Horse
- The Drive Line
- Teaching the Wild Horse to Face Up
- Teaching the Horse to Come towards you
- Following you
- Standing Near the Horse
- Touching the Horse for the First Time
- Rubbing the Horse with the Halter
- Haltering
- Wearing the Halter
- Training with Pressure Cues
- Individual Pressure Sensitivity in Horses
- Moving the Head and Neck with Pressure Cues
- Indirect Rein - Neutral
- Head Down
- Backwards from a Light Pressure Cue
- Stop Response and Problem Solving
- Backing with Softness
- Backing Circles and Figure Eights
- Backing with the Head Down
- Forwards From a Light Pressure Cue
- Teaching Foals to Lead
- Leading Forwards through Turns
- Leading with Lightness
- Forwards Beside Me from a Light Pressure Cue
- Increasing the Speed of the Draw
- Drawing and Leading at the Trot
- Testing the Forwards Response to Pressure
- Driving the Horse around a Tree
- The Power of Hindquarter control
- Yielding the Hindquarters from a Pressure Cue
- Yielding the Shoulders from a Pressure Cue
- Yielding Sideways from a Pressure Cue
- Adding a Visual Cue
- Head Down
- Come To me From a Visual Cue - Drawing the Horse Towards You
- Back Off from a Visual Cue
- Forwards Beside Me From a Visual Cue
- Backwards Beside Me From a Visual Cue
- Halt Beside me from a visual Cue
- Stand Still - Park - From a Visual Cue
- Yielding the Hindquarters from a visual Cue
- Yielding the Shoulders from a visual Cue
- Walking "Through" the Horse
- Walking "Through" the Hindquarters
- Walking "Through" the Neck and Shoulders
- Sideways with a Visual Cue
- Cues for Different Paces on the Lunge
- Yielding the Shoulders out onto the Circle
- Circling at the Walk
- Disengaging the Hindquarters - Transition to Halt
- Circling at the Trot
- Staying Inside the Halter - Shoulders Falling Out
- Shoulders Falling In on the Circle
- Circling at the Canter
- Incorrect Leads and Disunited Canters
- Improving Balance with Transitions
- Fully Disengaged - Down Transition to Halt
- Partially Disengaged - Down Transition to a Different Pace
- Straight Down Transitions
- Walk to Canter Transitions
- Squeeze Between you and a Fence
- Squeeze Under, Over, Through Obstacles -Ditches, Logs, Bridges, Puddles
- Leading Out on the Road or Trail
- Habituation
- Approach and Retreat
- Flooding
- Desensitizing the Horse to Ropes
- Desensitizing to a Whip
- Getting the Horse Used to Scary Objects
- Desensitizing to a Tarpaulin
- Desensitizing to an Umbrella
- Desensitizing to a Flag
- Changing Eyes with the Flag
- Moving the Horse with the Flag
- Circling with the Flag
- Hosing and Washing your Horse
- Leading by the Foot
- Lifting a Front Foot
- Lifting a Front Foot and Holding it Up
- Picking Up the Foot with Fingertip pressure
- Holding the Leg Up for Longer
- Adding a Visual and Verbal Cue
- Putting the Front Foot on a Hoof Stand
- Rubbing the Hind legs
- Picking Up Hind Feet
- Picking Up a Hind Foot and Taking it Out Behind
- Picking Up a Hind Foot by Hand
- Putting a Hind Foot on a hoof stand
- Preparation for Float and Trailer Loading
- Leading Forwards and Backwards
- Forwards from Whip Tapping
- Forwards from a Visual Cue
- Yielding the Hindquarters and Forequarters
- Circling at the Trot
- Squeeze Between objects
- Head Down
- Targeting
- Some Rules about Transporting Horses
- Introducing your Horse to the Float
- Four ways to Teach the Horse to Load
- Method one - Leading Driving onto the Float
- Method Two - Comfort Zone
- Method Three - Targeting
- Method Four - Breaching Strap
- Staying in the Float/Trailer
- Backing Out of the Float/Trailer Slowly
- Eight Ways to Change a Behaviour
- Changing the Motivation
- Dealing with Aggression
- Training an Incompatible Behaviour
- Hindquarter Control for Direction, Flexion and Engagement
- The Draw/Come Cue - Trotting Towards You
- Free Shaping - Clicking for Posture
- Inside Flexion
- Vertical Flexion
- Facilities
- Groundwork
- Circingle
- Lunging Roller
- Standing Still While Saddling
- Girthing Up
- Girthy Horses
- Stirrups
- The Blind Spot Behind The Horse and Changing Eyes
- Sitting Above the Horse
- Seeing Flags above Them
- Jumping Up and Down Next to Them
- Leaning Over them Bareback
- Get on one side, Rub the horse, Get off other side
- Sitting on the Horse Bareback
- Putting Weight in the Stirrups
- Stepping Up and Down in the Stirrups
- Leaning Over Them With the Saddle On
- Rubbing the Horse on Both Sides While Leaning Over Them
- Lateral Flexion While Leaning Over Them
- Teaching The Horse to Stand Still While You Mount
- Teaching the horse to Put on its Bridle
- Waring the bridle During Groundwork
- Teaching Basic Responses To the Bit
- Indirect Rein
- Direct Rein
- Rein Back
- Halt From walk and Trot
- Lunging off the Bit
- Basic Long Reining
- Transitions in the Long Reins
- Changing Directions in the Long Reins
- Start Without the Horse
- Focus
- Energy - Chi
- Riding Young Horses
- Riding with a Rope Halter
- Tying the Lead Rope For Reins
- Full Lateral Flexion
- Disengaging the Hindquarters - Indirect Rein
- Yielding the Shoulders - Direct Rein
- Yielding the Shoulders and Drift Fowards into a Walk
- Go Forwards Cue
- One Rein Halt - Indirect Rein
- Go Forwards and Keep Going
- Riding with Two Reins
- Rein Back
- Two Rein Halt
- Lunging with a Passenger
- Riding with a Halter and Bridle
- Riding in the Snaffle Bit
- Allowing the Horse to Work in a Natural Outline
- Summary of Basic Riding Cues
- Indirect Rein - Lateral Flexion
- Yielding the Hindquarters
- Direct Rein - Yielding the Shoulders
- Supporting Rein - Outside Rein
- One Rein halt From the Walk
- Two Rein Halt From the Walk
- Rhythm
- Rhythm in the Walk
- Halt to Reinback transitions
- Snake Trails at the Walk
- Trotting
- One Rein Halt from the Trot
- Two Rein Halt from the Trot
- Trot to Walk Transitions
- Getting Rhythm in the Trot
- Snake Trails at the Trot
- Cantering
- Cantering the Young Horse - The first few strides
- Cantering with Rhythm
- One Rein Halt from the Canter
- Two Rein Halter From the Canter
- Snake Trails at the Canter
- Canter Leads
- Dwell Time - Improving the Halt
- Keeping a Line - Focus
- Point to Point
- Riding Circles, Shapes and Figures
- Yielding the Hindquarters
- Yielding the Forequarters
- Sidepassing
- Leg Yielding
- Riding Squares and Other Pointy Shapes
- Obedience Before Suppleness
- Lateral Flexion
- Suppleness
- Long, Low and Loose
- Vertical Flexion
- An Elastic Connection
- Improving Balance with Transitions
- Impulsion
- Lateral Work With the Clicker
- Improving Basic Responses
- Trail Riding With the Clicker
- About the Author - Georgia Bruce
