Posts Tagged ‘Training’
It’s not about training, – it’s about trust
Written by Hiddenhorse on 05/04/2010 – 3:07 pm -It’s not about training, it’s about trust….
In the last post ‘The politics of join-up’, I looked at the join-up process primarily as an behavior based on negative reinforcement, I also looked at how join-up was a ritual that is part of the repertoire of ‘political’ behaviors which allow a horse to join a new herd or group. What I didn’t ask was why would a horse want to do this? Read more »
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The Politics of Join-up
Written by Hiddenhorse on 05/04/2010 – 12:52 pm -The Politics of Join-Up
For many people the first time they became aware of any kind of alternative methods of dealing with horses, it was when they first saw Monty Roberts demonstrating ‘join up’ ® . Until that time horse training methods had all been based on traditional knowledge, which usually meant doing what everybody else did, – because everybody else was doing it. As you will now know, this is what I call ‘utility model thinking’, based on the idea of the horse being defined by it’s function or utility. See other posts for more details on the utility model. Read more »
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Clicker Taining Principles 3
Written by Hiddenhorse on 23/03/2010 – 11:44 am -How to do it
When we clicker train an animal we are using two types of learning. Don’t worry too much about the names but it is important to understand the principles here. Read more »
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System Thinking
Written by Hiddenhorse on 18/03/2010 – 9:25 am -Systems thinking is something that is very popular in human society and something that simply does not exist in horse society. We humans love to buy into a system when we buy a horse we usually decide somewhere along the line which particular system we are going to put the horse (and ourselves!) through. It might be a very traditional and specific approach such as classical dressage or it might be something more general such as ‘English riding’. It might be a Western system or it might one of the growing number of alternative ‘natural horsemanship’ type systems. Systems are great aren’t they? Just follow the individual steps in the booklets, DVDs or podcasts and hey presto! At the end of the process you have a perfectly trained horse and a perfectly trained rider. Well actually no, that usually is the opposite of what happens. Read more »
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Personalities, Horse-analities and Systems
Written by Hiddenhorse on 14/03/2010 – 12:21 pm -Many of the currently available systems of training horses propose the idea that horses have different personalities, or ‘horse-analities’, if you prefer. (Ho-Ho-Ho) In general this is a good thing as it helps people understand their horses as individuals. You may have heard terms such as: left brain or right brain, dominant or submissive, leaders or followers, introvert and extrovert or even in some of the more elaborate systems, terms such as, ‘the minister’ or ‘the unicorn’. Read more »
Tags: Choleric, Horse-analaties, Melancholic, Phlegmatic, Sanguine, TrainingPosted in Horse-analaties, Natural Horsemanship, Training | No Comments »
Who is really training your horse?
Written by Hiddenhorse on 11/03/2010 – 4:01 pm -Horse training 24/7
One of my horses is a thoroughbred chestnut gelding who is socially low-ranking within the herd. I have a problem with him, and the problem is:
All the other horses in the herd keep training him to move his feet! Read more »
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