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Learning

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Epiphanies

Today I had an epiphany. A really annoying epiphany, as I have known the theory behind it for years and today I managed to try it out in practice. I managed to raise my eyes and look where I was going, instead of looking at my beautiful horse. One of

Kyra Kyrklund showing and teaching at Flyinge

Kyra Kyrklund showing and teaching at Flyinge

One of my biggest idols in riding is Kyra Kyrklund. She is a dressage rider and teacher, has written books and made videos and they have all made great sense to me. So when she came to Sweden I just had to go and watch her in real life, since

Cross country camp at Runsten Equestrian

Cross country camp at Runsten Equestrian

A three day camp, with four lessons with the instructor Ulf Johansson [http://cykloneventing.se/] at Runsten Equestrian Centre [https://runsten.com/]. As I don't like going alone to strange places me and Nemah was accompanied by Sabrina and Spex. Preparations The information before the camp was sparse to say

On being a newbie

On being a newbie

The last days I have been accompanied to the stable by people with different experience around horses. This made me think of how different you must put things to someone that knows what and how to do something compared to when they don’t. To me, the things I have

Does he sit?

This is the last planned clicker training session with Carolina from OHR Utbildning [http://www.ohr.se/] Since the last time I have bought a candy bag to keep the candy in, sadly I haven't had much time to practice with it. Mille has really understood the target and when

Motivation and frustration

Time again for a new lesson in clicker. Since last time we have practised a bit and Mille has improved a lot. He can now take the candy nicely and my hands are no longer bit to pieces. We have also decided a goal with the training; Mille is going

I can haz candy?

Since the last clicker training, me and Mille have continued the training by ourselves. By doing so a couple of issues have emerged and I brought them up when our trainer, Carolina, was here again. The biggest problem we have right now is that even though I’ve really tried

Can you teach an old pony to sit?

This will be a short series on my ventures into the land of clicker training. Clicker training uses positive reinforcement to reward wanted behaviours. When the animal does what you want you click reward it, usually with a treat but some animals work equally good with getting to play with