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How to Train Your Horse at Liberty | From getting started to lunging and freejumping!

This video shows you how to calmly and simply start liberty training with your horse… and then how to build progressively to exercises like liberty lunging, in-hand lateral work, horse agility and freejumping! Liberty is simply working your horse loose, without ropes or reins. We want our horses to choose to work with us at […]

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Mounting a Young Horse for the First Time with Clicker Training | How to Stay Safe and Connected

Leave a Comment / Riding with Connection / By Hannah weston

Backing a young horse for the first time is often seen as something dangerous and dramatic. Horses who aren’t prepared can panic, bucking bolting and rearing. But, it doesn’t have to be that way! I believe that horses should have a positive experience when someone sits on their back for the first time and this

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Prevent Your Horse Stopping Abruptly When You Click

9 Comments / Problem Solving, Riding with Connection / By Hannah weston

Some clicker trained horses can get into the habit of stopping dead when they hear the click or their marker. From a trot or canter, this can cause the horse to slam on the brakes, bracing and hollowing as they stop. This can cause problems for the horse physically and is uncomfortable to ride. In

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How to Train Horse Agility with Clicker Training | Bending, Curtain, Umbrella, Hoop, Jump, Liberty

1 Comment / Gymnastic Groundwork, Jumping and Obstacles / By Hannah weston

Horse agility is great for despooking, body awareness, variety, exercise and fun with your horse. This video shows how I work with horses at different stages in their agility training through a variety of obstacles. I’m training using positive reinforcement, which means that I use rewards for my horses, and I’m working at liberty. Weaving

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P2 Get More Relaxation When Riding: Stop Your Horse Rushing, Getting Tense or Trying Too Hard

Leave a Comment / Problem Solving, Riding with Connection / By Hannah weston

This video continues the exercises from P1, where we were increasing relaxation in groundwork. Now, we’ve working on reducing tension and rushing when riding lateral exercises. (Watch P1 first) Tension when riding is common and is shown through behaviours such as rushing, resisting, tail swishing, ear-pinning, napping, spooking and getting anxious or, in the case

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P1 Get More Relaxation and Softness in Groundwork: Stop Your Horse Rushing or Trying Too Hard

2 Comments / Gymnastic Groundwork, Problem Solving / By Hannah weston

The key to good training is getting motivation and relaxation in balance. With reward-based training (clicker training), it’s usually easy to get high levels of motivation, but that can get TOO high, meaning you lose relaxation. When your horse tries too hard, they often throw all their behaviours at you, rush through exercises, can’t stand

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What is Engagement? Try These Simple Exercises to Understand It.

4 Comments / Gymnastic Groundwork, Riding with Connection, Training Theory and Techniques / By Hannah weston

Healthy movement is key to a sound and happy horse. Engagement is part of healthy movement, necessary for keeping your horse sound and comfortable. Our domestic horses get such limited movement, even with ample turnout, compared to their wild counterparts, that we need to help maintain their physical fitness through training. In order to train

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Horse Agility for Despooking, Body Awareness and Fun!

1 Comment / Gymnastic Groundwork, Tricks and Fun Stuff / By Hannah weston

If you’re looking for a fun and varied way to improve your horse’s fitness, proprioception and connection, horse agility and obstacle training could be just the thing for you. I love to work with obstacles because they give you and your horse a clear, focused task to figure out how you’re going to get around,

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How to Teach Your Horse to Stay Calm and STOP if the Saddle Slips

2 Comments / Problem Solving, Riding with Connection / By Hannah weston

Although we never want it to happen, accidents sometimes do and if the saddle slips it can easily panic the horse, making a bad situation much worse. Luckily, there are things you can train to help your horse understand that it’s nothing to worry about and even that he should stop quietly if the saddle

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Hoof Trimming with a Frightened and Aggressive Rescue Pony

1 Comment / Problem Solving / By Connection Training

Building trust with horses who have experienced neglect or abuse takes time and dedication. In this video, you’ll get to know Valiente, a pony rescued in Spain in terrible condition. CT Coach Claire Waldron worked patiently with him to help him overcome his fear and voluntarily participate in having his feet trimmed – it actually

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Horses wishing you a Merry Christmas! 🐴🎄

3 Comments / Tricks and Fun Stuff / By Connection Training

We hope you and your herd have a wonderful Christmas! This festive montage features CT horses from around the world. Joining Hannah and Rachel’s horses, we have CT Club members: – Bessie and Fernando from Australia (with Sarah) – Bonny and Pixie from the UK (with Nicola Ross) – Kali from the UK (with Barbara

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Hannah talks about the CT Book on the Whole Horse Podcast

2 Comments / Press and Appearances / By Hannah weston

I was delighted to chat with Alexa again from the Whole Horse Podcast. In our first chat, we got into the principles of positive reinforcement training and discussed practical ways to build motivation, while keeping relaxation and bringing it into your everyday life with your horse. In this second episode, Alexa was asking all about

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