How to structure your training (with Ulrika Andreasson)
You can find more info about Ulrika's lovely teaching and training here: https://www.ullisrudolf.se/SESSION PLANNER here: https://www.rewardbasedridingschool.com/If you have questions or thoughts around the episode, we're happy to hear them via MAIL
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3 C:s to check before riding. Connection. Confidence. Cues
Three C:s to check before riding.
-Connection
-Confidence
-Cues (aids)
This is a modified version of a horsemanship structure I learned when first starting pony clubbing. The meaning is to assess your horse (and yourself) to keep you and your horse under threshold and communicating well.
Back then the focus was more on an obedient horse, in my teaching I focus more on a horse that sees the environment as a resource and is fine communicating any uncertainty about it back to the rider. Whether the rider sits on the horse or work from the ground.
Connection: how’s your two way communication working? Is your horse an active participant in their training?
Confidence: are you calm and relaxed in the environment you work in? Do you have an exit strategy? Remember your own relaxation as well. Avoid situations where one of you feel to afraid to have connection.
Cues (aids). Is it clear what’s what? Can you communicate with different body parts. From halt and go to sidemovements, depending on your level. I meet a lot of horses who think the reins are for moving forward (!). Not ideal in most situations.
Everything doesn’t have to be perfect all the time. But a baseline of all three Cs will help you succeed and help you structure your sessions.
For more on my training and teaching, check: rewardbasedriding.com
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Working in halt. For body awareness, gymnastics and understanding of the aids.
To work with the horse while the horse is standing still, in a halt or just parking, is something I am very passionate about.
When we talk about working in halt many think about the "full" school halt. However that is a tool being closer to the end of all the work we can do in halt. And the goal is not the school halt itself but what it the journey towards it can bring to our horse and training. Even if we don't get there!To improve the whole horse in both standing and movement, to gymnastize and to educate, clarify or improve the secondary aids. In the podcast I refer to this blog post showing how it can look in pictures: https://www.rewardbasedriding.com/post/the-school-haltAnd to this video, how it can look in movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk0aLT5pjzM&t=37sThanks for tuning in!
Angelica
Here you can find me: If you have questions or wanna contact me about courses or teaching, please send me an email via my home page below thanks :) Reward Based Riding my courses, teaching and blog.Facebook where I update most frequentInstagram short form contentYou Tube-longer videos and training
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Starting reward based riding (with Hannah Weston)
This somewhat a continuation from our mutual Riding Workshop.Here we are chatting about how to start with reward based riding. Presenting different alternatives. We both have go to preferred options about how to go about this, but as always, there are many ways to Rome. You are the one deciding what is best for you and your horse <3 Ways to access more of our teaching:You'll find more about me at https://www.rewardbasedriding.com/And Hannah at https://connectiontraining.com/Here you can find me: If you have questions or wanna contact me about courses or teaching, please send me an email via my home page below thanks :) Reward Based Riding my courses, teaching and blog.Facebook where I update most frequentInstagram short form contentYou Tube-longer videos and training
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Emotions in horse training. Reading your horse emotional clues (with Susanna Davidsson)
Today I am joined by lovely Susanna Davisson from Hästvis. We talk about trying to read the clues our horses behaviors gives us when we are interacting or training together. And how seeing them as clues help us be better at adapting our training. Susanna has a membership group in Swedish where talking and learning to read body languages and emotions is a very important part. You will find exercises for both horses and humans. You will find it here:https://hastvis.mykajabi.com/Here you can find me: If you have questions or wanna contact me about courses or teaching, please send me an email via my home page below thanks :) Reward Based Riding my courses, teaching and blog.Facebook where I update most frequentInstagram short form contentYou Tube-longer videos and training
A podcast about creating balance, using reward based training techniques with host Angelica Hesselius and guests. Coming from the view on horse training as enrichment we will look at ways to create a relaxed, gymnastically sound horse who wants to train as much as we do. Groundwork, riding, husbandry or vet care training all will work better if our horse´s is in balance. But what do different types of balance look like and how do we create it? This podcast aims to explore different ways of answering these questions as well as talking about the new tools we need to develop training with positive reinforcement techniques.
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