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Equitation Science Training Julie Stapleton. http://www.equitationsciencetraining.net/equitation-sciencetrainingtestimonials No obligation to book. Very successful online coaching anywhere.

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Email me for details of training sessions, fee, locations, and so on. Equitation Science Training is beneficial for all equines, from foals to competition horses, problematic or straightforward cases. Retrain difficult behaviour or simply train a horse feel so much better to ride. All issues retrained, including shoeing/trimming, loading, worming, handling, leading, cl

ipping, hosing, spraying, catching, bridling, girthing, bucking, rearing, shying, foal handling, pre-backing and full backing - with calm kindness. In-person sessions in NZ (and I hope in UK and SA again). PM me to enquire - no obligation to book. Click below to see what students have to say about how learning ES with me has been a revelation for them and a transformation in their horse's behaviour and way of going.

23/03/2025
March Sessions:Whangarei - 26 + 27 Waipu - 27 + 28Warkworth/Leigh - 28 + 29Puhoi + Auckland - 29 + 30Rotorua, Tauranga a...
23/03/2025

March Sessions:

Whangarei - 26 + 27

Waipu - 27 + 28

Warkworth/Leigh - 28 + 29

Puhoi + Auckland - 29 + 30

Rotorua, Tauranga and Omanawa - April

http://www.equitationsciencetraining.net/

Catch me while you can to transform your horse!

Equitation science is used to train horses and horse riders to improve their skills, and to reduce and eliminate behaviour problems such as loading issues, rearing, park, shoeing, farrier problems.

23/03/2025

I am so, so proud of my student who has *maintained* the perfect self-loading and self-unloading response of her horse.

Not only that, but through her realisation that horses' behaviour can be changed through scientific techniques, her previously scary horse is now safe and enjoyable to ride out anywhere (farm, hills, forest, beach).

This has taken a course of sessions (it's a process, there's no magic wand), homework, and consistency of cues 24/7.

Well done, my dear!

23/03/2025

Today we want to share with you a mini 'blog post' about Classical Conditioning during training. 🐴

The process of Classical Conditioning informs us that new cues must be given just before or during a reflex or previously learned signal or aid. For example, if the rider wishes to train the voice aid 'whoa', the word should occur just before and overlapping the application of the rein signal for stop. The further the word occurs after the rein aid, the less the horse learns the voice aid. The rider must also remember the horse does not understand what 'whoa' means, but rather learns it as a cue, it must always be delivered with the same tone and pitch. Shouting 'whoa' won't make the horse stop more quickly, it is only the learned version of the voice aid that is meaningful to the horse. For maximum efficiency, voice cues should be said only once, and if there is no reaction from the horse, an operant aid such as a pressure aid should follow so that the cue remains reliably attached to the pressure.

If all basic responses such as stop and go are trained in-hand and under-saddle through negative reinforcement, any stronger pressures that are used should always be preceded by a lighter version of that aid (the pressure levels you want to become the aid). So by Classical Conditioning, the horse learns to associate the initial light aid with the targeted response. In addition to the light version of the pressure/release aids, the other signals may also be acquired by classical conditioning to elicit the response.

In dressage competition, voice aids are not allowed. Dressage trainers instead focus on the use of seat and postural aids. As the horse learns to respond from the lighter rein and/or leg aids, he becomes increasingly aware of the associations of seat and weight that naturally occur with rein and/or leg aids if the rider's position is correct. The responses are learned through classical conditioning as the seat and weight aids occur just before or during the rein and/or leg aids. Similarly, during training the horses to lunge, the horse learns to respond to vocal aids, but the fact that the rider and/or trainer generally needs to keep the bridle on the horse and the lunge whips in his hand is evidence that classical conditioning is but a thin veneer in training. Voice, seat, weight and position associations are easily ignored and thus habituated to because they are not as motivating as the reward of doing less work. Horses need reminding from time to time with the aids of rein and/or leg as well as enhancement afforded by secondary positive reinforcement.

Classical Conditioning is part of our Diploma of Equitation Science. If you'd like to receive more information about our diploma, please send us a private message. 👌

http://bit.ly/ESIdiploma

23/03/2025

Friday Facts / Foundation Training 👌

Foundation Training is a term used to describe the early training of a young horse; it is the foundation upon which all the horse's further training is built.

Foundation training should replace terms such as 'breaking-in'.
This is important not only because the term 'breaking-in' has negative welfare implications, but because foundation training implies that this is not just a passing stage in a horse's life but a layer of training that needs constant reassessment.
This layer is installed in the earliest stages of training and provides the most important base for all further training and is the part that requires re-training when problems arise.

A horse with solid foundation training is one with all the correct qualities of the basic responses in-hand and under-saddle. Horses in any sport and at every level require solid basics. Indeed, because these horses require delivery of aids in quick succession and the movements are composite assemblages of the basic learned responses, leaving them unexamined can lead to deterioration.

All horses need their basics reassessed from time to time.

Foundation training and learning those basics is one of the core units of our Diploma.

Send us a private message if you'd like more information about our Diploma of Equitation Science and our different payment plans. 🐴

http://bit.ly/ESIdiploma

23/03/2025
Sessions now, from Northland, south to Rotorua.  Calling at Whangarei, Warkworth, Auckland, Tauranga, Omanawa and finall...
22/03/2025

Sessions now, from Northland, south to Rotorua. Calling at Whangarei, Warkworth, Auckland, Tauranga, Omanawa and finally, April coaching in Rotorua, Tauranga and Omanawa.

Catch me while you can to transform your horse!

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