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Does your horse barge over the top of you? Fidget and dance when you groom him? Spook at his own shadow? “Lesson 2: Ground Manners\" shows you how to solve these and other common ground problems. In the process you’ll be laying the foundation for upper-level performance work.Topics covered:\u2028Pressure as a communication tool\u2028

Backing\u2028

Basic Leading

Foal handling and Ground Manners\u2028

The “Duct Tape\" lesson

\u2028Putting an End to crowding

Lunging and Lateral Work

\u2028Understanding Balance

These fundamental ground skills are the foundation of emotional control and performance in your horse. The lesson uses freeze frame, and slow motion footage to highlight the details you’ll need to be successful with your horse. Whether your horse is a juvenile delinquent or a solid citizen, the lesson shows you a gentle way to reach your training \u2028goals.

This lesson was originally produced in 2000. It includes a great session with our Icelandic stallion Sindri. Sindri was a new immigrant. He had been in the country for just two weeks when this lesson was filmed. This was the first time I brought him into the arena. He very quickly showed me that he thought leading meant you wrapped yourself around your person and then herded her wherever you wanted to go!

Walking a straight line was just about impossible. When I asked Sindri to go forward, he leaned onto his inside shoulder and crowded into me. He wasn’t a scary horse. I didn’t feel threatened. I just couldn’t go where I wanted.
That was the baseline. Half an hour later I had a horse who was understanding lateral work. When I walked into him, instead of crowding into me, he moved over out of my space.

Contrast is a great teacher. What I love about this session is you can so clearly see Sindri leaning down onto his inside shoulder and crowding into me. There was nothing subtle about what he was doing.

Look at each of these still shots. Sindri’s weight is coming down onto his left front leg as he crowds in on top of me. I can’t walk forward because there’s a horse blocking my path.

This is such a common pattern. I see so many horses who start out leaning onto their inside shoulders. This session was filmed in 2000. At that time, if I had stepped outside of my clicker training world, I would have been told that Sindri needed to learn respect. I needed to get tougher with him. For my own safety, anytime he came into my space, I needed to drive him away from me.

Thankfully for Sindri I stayed in my clicker training bubble. I taught him an alternative to falling in. I taught him to soften and bend around me so he could shift his balance and move up and over out of my space. We were on the road to shoulder-in, beautiful balance, and a very polite horse.

Sindri is a very quick learner. What makes this clip so very useful is you get to watch him making this switch in real time. The actual training time of the lesson was 33 minutes and you get to watch most of it with explanations provided along with some slow motion video that highlights the changes that are occurring.

You can see the beginning of the changes in these screenshots. Now as I walk forward, Sindri displaces up and over out of my way. He isn’t rushing past me, blocking my ability to go forward. Instead he is staying with me as he steps laterally out of my way.

Look at the difference a change in balance makes:

This was filmed in 20001, long before cell phone were everywhere videoing everything. I was using a big, clunky video camera that usually ran out of either battery or tape before the end of a lesson. But on this day the stars were aligned. I had a client visiting who was willing to video the lesson. She asked some really good questions because she was just starting to learn about lateral work. Her questions add to the value of this session.

We were actually able to get on film Sindri’s discovery that he could move sideways. Normally we either miss the actual learning process, or the battery runs out just as the horse is starting to figure out the lesson, or the horse needs multiple sessions to make this switch so it is harder for you to see the change in balance.

So many times I have missed great sessions because the video camera wasn’t running. I think of them like the “fish” that got away. But this gem of a session we got on film. It doesn’t matter that the lesson occurred over two decades ago. Horses are still leaning onto their shoulders today and lateral work is still the solution.

To help my client understand what she had just seen with Sindri, I walked through a demo of Sindri’s starting balance and the changes that occurred that produced the lateral steps.

https://vimeo.com/1084662422/5e38fc9d64?share=copy

Sindri’s lesson and the demo that followed it are just part of the Lesson #2 Mini Course. It also includes a discussion of pressure and release of pressure in the context of clicker training. What fits under the clicker training “umbrella”, and what doesn’t belong?

Also included is backing in a square - a key foundation skill; working with foals; and an appearance of a very young Robin. Robin is my co-teacher in presenting the duct tape lesson. The duct tape lesson teaches the prerequisite skills needed for the lesson Sindri shows us.

Note: these lessons were always intended to be used in conjunction with my books and clinics. They focus in on specific steps in the training to provide addition detailed instruction. They are a great addition to the on-line clinic series.
The lesson includes the original two hour video lesson produced in 2000 plus updates.

When you register in this course, you gain access to the lesson for one year. If you wish to extend your access, you can renew your membership in the on-line course platform for $35/year. That will give you access to all the courses you are registered in. Membership renewal dates are based on the first course you register for.

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In 1998 Alexandra launched the rapidly growing field of clicker training for horses with the publication of her first book, “Clicker Training for Your Horse”.
She has also written “The Click That Teaches: A Step–By–Step Guide in Pictures” and “The Click That Teaches: Riding with the Clicker”. She has also produced The Click That Teaches DVD lesson series, plus an on-line training course, and an extensive library of articles in her blog: theclickercenterblog.com. She also produces the weekly Equiosity podcast - an exploration of all things equine with a special emphasis on the horse-human bond.

Alexandra teaches clicker training geared to any horse need or sport—including developing a gentle and companionable riding horse, working with foals and weanlings, training advanced performance horses, and helping difficult to handle horses.

Prior to the pandemic, Alexandra traveled widely giving clicker training clinics and presenting at conferences in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. She has been on the faculty of The Clicker Expo since it’s beginning almost twenty years ago.
Her clinic teaching has now shifted on-line so wherever you are in the world, you and your horse can learn directly from Alexandra.

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