Teach Your Horse to Line Up and Stand at the Mounting Block (W/ Positive Reinforcement or a Clicker)
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2020
- Do you want your horse to willingly line up to be ridden and to immediately connect with you when you're in the saddle? Then this video is for you!
I show you the process I took when working with a mare who bolted as soon as anyone tried to mount. This technique taught Lubie:
- How to line herself up to be mounted
- To stay connected with the rider as the person moved from the ground to the saddle
(this is a big one as many horses lose connection when you mount leading to more anxious ridden behaviour than groundwork)
- To stand still calmly once the rider was on board and wait while the girth's adjusted etc and you're both ready to move off together
- That she could choose to line up or not and have a say in being ridden, giving her the ability to say when it was too much and when she's happy to be mounted.
As you can see, it changed everything - all calmly, positively and with NO drama or dangerous behaviour.
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I really love this idea of reinforcement with the intention behind it of connection and not an action.
I am calling this fate as I am looking at a 5 year old who won’t stand at the mounting block. He is a lovely horse and other than that he is a perfect horse and I wasn’t sure how easy it was to train him to stand for long because as soon as anyone tried putting a foot in the stirrup he would move forwards or sideways. So thank you so much for this 💜. Really excited to try this if we decide to buy him. 😊
Great work - I had to work on mine like this and boy it can take a long time to get to this stage but once established it’s so worth the time
What a wonderful experience for the horse and human. Great connection
This is the absolute best video I’ve seen on mounting block training! Thank you SO much! I just started clicker training my horse and I’m going to integrate this method with it for my TWH! 🥰
Do you ever find that horses start to become pushy for the treats?
Lovely
Really good video, thanks so so much
Glad you enjoyed it!
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My horse lines her front end up but her rear end is too far out. How do I teach her to bring her rear closer?
My horse is 20 I can’t ride her bare back without a mounting block and she always moves she’s also 16.0 hands
What verbal cue (if any) would you give please?
I dont have a verbal cue for this, so the cue is me standing on something (the mounting block) and then that is the cue for them to line up and stand at mounting block too.
Actually starts at 1:44
What treats you you give? When I've tried this with my pony she continually looks for treats rather than concentrating on the task in hand, any tips?
We just had a breakthrough with this- work with lower value treats- one of the horses in training was super super frustrated because of the treats being too high value and when we started using fresh grass instead of bananas and apples it made a huge difference to them build up stronger behaviors with higher value
Great video. Thanks
Why fight and force a horse.. I totally think this is the way to go with horses with baggage that is unknown. Make it a rewarding experience.
This method definitely did not work for me. My gelding understands basic clicker training, and knows what targeting is. He even recognizes the target stick. When we try this, however, he does everything *except* line up with the block. He swings his rear away, stops prior to the block, or simply loses interest and just walks away. I've had the vet check him inside out and upside down - there does not seem to be a medical reason for this. He's reasonably well behaved when he is ridden and he's never ridden hard. I've tried other non-positive reinforcement methods as well after failing with this method - no success with those, either. It's been EXTREMELY frustrating.
Hi Liz, I understand your frustration. This behaviour is stemming either from confusion or evasion of being ridden. It’s great that youre trying to communicate with him what youre asking for and also that you’ve had the vet out. However, it might be emotional tension that’s causing him to disconnect at the block. This doesn’t need to be related to his current riding but can go back even to when they were first back, which unfortunately is still usually done way too fast and with too much stress for most horses. Or, sometimes an incident at the block such the a spook while being mounted or the person or saddle slipping can be enough to frighten some horses off being mounted for a long time. There’s also a possibility of confusion and that he thinks dancing around is what you want - it’s more common to accidentally train something like than you’d think! Try rewarding him as you approach the block then go off and do something else before it becomes difficult. Make the block really fun and the source of games not mounting. If he’s walking away, he’s already over threshold so back off a bit and work up to it more slowly. Give him buckets at the block, jackpots at the block, play favourite games at the block until he wants to approach it, then you can work on explaining lining up to mount, until he just can’t wait to approach it and for you to get on. If you’re still stuck, getting some one to one help, either in person or online, with a trainer or behaviourist is your best approach. Hope that helps and good luck!
@@ConnectionTraining Thanks for the advice - I will try to make the block more enticing as you noted. As to getting someone to help - that's been a chronic problem. There isn't anyone in the area that does equine clicker training - I've looked. I'm the only one at the barn I board at who does it. Everyone else there thinks I'm crazy and have encouraged me to use aversive methods to get my gelding to cooperate. I'm certain that I'm missing little nuances, details and timing issues that would improve on what I'm trying to accomplish - that's where I need some expert, in-person help and there simply isn't any available. I have essentially very little support and I've hit a wall trying to figure it out on my own.