How do you make the hard thing easy and the easy thing hard? 👀😵💫
As we are in the second week of the masterclass, I find myself talking a lot about that simple idea 💡 behind a big behavioral concept for success;
On average, the most common reason why a horse refuses to do what we are asking is because there is not enough possitive outcomes for him, or he has to work to hard, for to long before getting a reward.
So, how do we switch that balance?
🎈 Simplified the exercises by thin layering it. Like the video here, I am working on transition and rewarding the transition up to a canter as it happens! Because that is hard right now, so it needs to be simple and quick so that my horse wants to do it.
🎈the things that are easy right now should increase in difficulties. For example, if your horse knows well to touch target on demand, you should increase the difficulties so that there is always a certain level of challenge. If you don't and still give him that coockie wile performing the same task, that will stop him from leveling up because that is more than enough for him, and why would he force himself at something hard when he get more reward at something easy??
Get the idea??
The same concept can be seen in a large portion of issues with horses in or out of the area.
On this, I encourage you to keep eyes out next time things don't go according to the plan. Ask yourself what's in this for your horse? How can you simplify your process and level up what is easy for him right now so that he sees a reason to try harder.
#fjordpony #horselover #horsetrainingtips
Student highlight! 🤩
There is no feeling that makes me feel better than seeing people and their horses trive.
Today's stars are @zozo_theriault and Twister.
Zoë was interested in learning more while having fun and creating a stronger bond with her horse.
From the very first assignment, we noticed that Twister had a lot more to offer than what he would make Zoë beleive.
Giving Twister more responsibilities has proven to wake up his willingness to play along, and they are now both triving with every session. Both have entered the Liberty work Masterclass, and I am looking forward to see where it bring them!
Keep up the good work! 🥳👏
#equinelearning #horsemanship
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Nwver underestimated the power of a long trail ride 🐎
#HorsebackRiding #HorsebackRidingTrails
Have you ever seen a 2-legged horse bulling a cart Boomer? 😆
Flash back from 2021 has the boys where test driving the race buggy
😅 Boomer expression of WTF was priceless 😂
#harnesshorse #workhorse #farmlife #farmlifebestlife
Rugg or no rugg his an equestrian debate that needs to stop! 🙅♀️
It should be according to your horse need to be comfortable and not pur human preference. Here is how a judge quickly. 🐎
#equestrianlife #equestrian #horsebackriding
How many horses ?😅🫣
Reality vs expectation
It will start messing, but if you keep going, it will turn out great! 🌱
Here is a quick clip of my session with the team last weekend that is making me LOL all the way 🤣.
Because I believe in showing the real thing, I believe it is important that I show the biggining of my journey with the full team of horses.
Overall I beleive it was a wonderfull session. What it messy? Yes!!! But we got many intune moment and that is exactly where it start. ✨️
Wanna see the full uncut session? Follow the link to my youtube channel :
https://youtu.be/FwNY23Ai5dQ
Don't do this!! 🫣
The worst mistake you can make while playing at liberty is to ask too much before rewarding our horse. 😶🌫️
Why do we do that? Because we want it all! 💪🦵
We look at the inspiring videos where it seems that the horse can keep circling the human forever and believe this amount of circle is worth the reward, not before!
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What we don't see is that this horse at once needed to be rewarded each quarter of a cricle before being able to maintain 1 full circle without disconnecting...😳
This is a typical subject that I am looking forward to presenting you in the Introduction to Liberty Masterclass 🎉
Wanna know more about what I have cooking for ya? Do not miss the free life event on January 26 at 11 Am!
I will jump in right here and give you an overview of what I have prepare for you and answer people questions about the art of liberty work.
#horsemanship #naturalhorsemanship
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Help me celebrate my hitman @martin.poirier.501 accomplishment with Rosy! 🤩
Martin`s bigger challenge was to be consistent in playing with Rosy, yet this year he leveled up his game by scheduling at least 1hrs/week just to play with his horse, and also by creating accountabilities by having a weekly coaching session. 💪
Part of the mind game to stay consistent with your horse is to find a good system that WORKS FOR YOU!🫵
Remember that every little win is worth celebrating. If you usually don`t do anything during the winter month, focus on finding a way to guarantee at least one session per week and build it from there.
For Martin creating a system that makes him consistent at riding his horse was to schedule a weekly group lesson every week on Monday so it creates accountability to be there and to do just that.
PS** 👀It also made sure someone is picking at him and expecting to see better results from week to week… and you know what? It works!! 💯
I can say that he has been consistently riding for 6 months and the results are amazing!!!!
YAY!🎉
So…What his your biggest challenge when it comes to playing with your horse?
#equinelearning #horsemanship #naturalhorsemanship
Do more of what makes you Laugh out Loud 🤣😂❤️🔥
I decided to tent a holiday challenge this year, and was more than happy that my hitman @martin.poirier.501 , was fully on board with the idea. So here we went, “hunting” for a tree (seriously we took the first one we saw) and then spending way too much time making it stand for us but We Perceived!!💪
Two tires with their rims, many sticks, and probably what we would call a Christmas miracle: the tree was standing straight (kind of).
So, we took the light strings out and just had a blast with it!!!🎉
It`s been a few days, and I am still giggling thinking about it! 🤭 It has honestly been a while since I did anything without a “ bigger purpose behind it” yet, nothing gave me the refreshing feeling those few hours did. 😊
The moral of my story today: Don`t stop yourself from doing useless things if they make you giggle for a few days.
Happy holidays, and may the horse be with you all 💜🦄
#dowhatmakesyouhappy #holiday #friendship #horsingaround
Biomechanics Program to Support Mature Horses
