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I have been accused of terminal rising trot - but time invested here is so worthwhile - it’s the ‘gold dust’ skill. I offer some strategies to help your hollow back or round back, in both the rise and sit, keeping your knee in the same place and your foot back under you. Recent research has shown that it does indeed help your horse to sit with the inside hind leg, and that it’s actually his outside hind leg that works harder on a circle, not his inside one. I also offer strategies to help you not get disorganised by the ‘pingy’ or ‘stodgy’ horse.
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We use a full length mirror to get really forensic about rising trot mechanism, showing you how to differentiate movement in your hip joint from movement in your mid back. This allows you to mimic the movements rising trot and gives you clarity about the movements you need to avoid. Type A and type B horses respond very differently to the rider who does the ’itsy bitsy rise’, but all horses respond the same way to the rider who elongates her front in the rise. There’s a quick fix for this problem if you’re brave enough to do it!
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I suggest some metaphorical MRs to reduce the ‘sting’ of your less-than-stellar rides. Realise too that thinking ‘What if?…’ is a mental rehearsal, and if the rehearsal ends with you in a ‘black hole’ you are probably more scared of the difficult emotions it generates than you are of hitting the ground. Realise that you can take sensible precautions before you get on - perhaps by doing some ground work. This doesn’t mean that you’re scared, it simply means that you’re sensible - it’s like looking both ways before crossing a road. We return to a revision of rider biomechanics, and ask, ‘why is this so important?’
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How neurons that fire together wire together, in both real and imagined practice. We do mental rehearsals of personal bests, asking ‘What’s the difference that made the difference?’. We also rehearse fixing a pattern when it goes wrong, since that’s the skill you need to speed up the phase of ‘conscious competence’. I suggest some more creative uses of MR to find ways around the blocks to your progress.
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Research on mental rehearsal has encompassed dart throwing, piano playing, and many other skills, often reporting improvements in skill that surpass actual practice. Focussing in the effect of a movement works better than focussing on the movement itself, and the level of detail you can produce in your rehearsal says a lot about your actual skill level. There are a few ‘health warnings’ about ways of (perhaps inadvertantly) doing rehearsals that are not helpful.
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Research on mental rehearsal has encompassed dart throwing, piano playing, and many other skills, often reporting improvements in skill that surpass actual practice. Focussing in the effect of a movement works better than focussing on the movement itself, and the level of detail you can produce in your rehearsal says a lot about your actual skill level. There are a few ‘health warnings’ about ways of (perhaps inadvertantly) doing rehearsals that are not helpful.
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When pupils are ‘going through the motions’ of getting the horse to go, teachers tend to ‘go through the motions’ as well - or to get really impatient. Staying patient requires the coach to maintain and identity/behaviour separation for the rider, realising that she might have good skills in other fields. Ideally, the coach ‘tunes’ herself, getting centred and present, to help her tune the rider who then tunes the horse. The coach is a role model for the rider. The story of the day I heard myself say ‘Don’t panic!”, and realised that I had let the horse and rider lead me astray! On TT courses we have lots of fun role playing our most challenging pupils, and finding strategies to get them in a learning mode - learning how to learn is the biggest gift we have to give.
MR: Stories of various clients, and also elite riders, and how they used/talked about MR. MRs of signing your name, and seeing/sensing a bowl of fruit. It is best to involve all of your senses. MR helps you discover how much your brain knows, and primes your brain, which cannot tell the difference between real and imagined performance. -
In riding, negative expectations so often become the reality (as in ‘I hope we don’t stop at the ditch!…’). When things are going well you have to ‘make it again, make it again’ - not stop doing it - and you can’t even afford to take time out and congratulate yourself! Hoping something good will happen is very different to expecting it to happen, and when it comes to impulsion, many riders set themselves up to ensure that it won’t happen. Naive teachers feed this rider lots of energy, and end up exhausted. There are other ways to encourage someone who is probably constrained by fear to step out of her comfort (and ineffectual) zone. I describe some difficult pupils who specialise in being their own worst enemy, and invite you to consider, ‘How teachable are you?’
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Most riders give repeated leg aids that actually train the horse to be dead to their leg. If you have to kick to get each step of walk, how are you ever going to ride a canter pirouette? To be an effective rider, you have to believe that you have the right to be up there, being the brains of the rider/horse partnership, and being the leader your horse really needs. This requires self believe, good technique for giving a leg aid, a lot of conscious attention, and the ‘kick, don’t, don’t’ technique described here.
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Trainers will always be prejudiced against the toolkits they don’t understand, can’t be bothered with, or do so brilliantly (and easily) that they fail to recognise their brilliance. This complicates the ‘map battles’ between the proponents of the various toolkits. It pays to ‘outframe’ the zero toolkit to include saddlery, farriery, bodywork etc. - the supporting arts that help your horse to not be one of the ‘walking wounded’ who doesn’t limp, but is not physically robust. If he throws tantrums, suspect a physical problem as you ask yourself if the issue rooted in pain, in his brain, or in his training. A kick or whip tap needs to change your horse’s brain chemistry (and can do so ethically) so that he has more ‘get up and go’ chemicals. The aid needs to rebound like a slap, and not be a nudge or squeeze.
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How proponents of the 3 toolkits interact like the proverbial 3 blind men with the elephant. More on the Zero toolkit, overshadowing, and the transition from ground work to riding.
Being strong in one of the ‘maps’ of riding and training makes up for weaknesses in the other ‘maps’ - and also allows trainers to negate the other maps. Trainers often attribute their skill to one of the toolkits, not realising that they are also strong in a different one. Incongruent riding happens where there are conflicts between two toolkits eg the reins say ‘stop’, but the rider leans back during a halt so the laws of physics say ‘go’. Operant and classical conditioning as toolkits zero and 1. Making the transition from groundwork to riding. -
Hevosten ylipaino on kasvava ongelma länsimaissa. Arvioiden mukaan jopa 60% länsimaisista hevosista kärsii ylipainosta, lihavuudesta tai sairaalloisesta lihavuudesta.
Jaksossa käydään läpi lihavuuteen johtavia syitä sekä yleisimpiä laihduttamiseen liittyviä myyttejä.
https://hevoskoulutus.fi/tuote/hevosen-painonhallinta/
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Keskustelua hevosten peruskäytöstavoista ja niiden opettamisesta hevoselle. Vieraana hevostenkouluttaja Mia Jurvala sekä satulaseppä Liza Aura.
http://www.horsett.fi/
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Tässä jaksossa keskustelemme hevosten peruskäytöstavoista: mitä jokaisen hevosen tulisi osata ja miksi. Vieraana hevosten kouluttaja Mia Jurvala sekä satulaseppä Liza Aura.
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Hevoshieroja Miisa Wikman kertoo kenelle hevoshieronta sopii ja kenelle se ei sovi, milloin se on tarpeellista ja miten hieronnasta saa kaikista parhaimman hyödyn irti sekä hevonen että hevosenomistaja. Podcastissa kerrotaan myös miten hevoshierontaan kannattaa valmistautua ja mitä olisi hyvä ottaa huomioon aikaa varatessa.
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Hevosen valmennuksen perusteita ja vinkkejä hevosen valmennuksen suunnitteluun. Tee hevosellesi oma lukujärjestys jolla pääset kohti tavoitteita. Tavoitteet voivat olla kaikkea mestaruudesta hevosen kunnon kohottamiseen tai laukan kehittämiseen, hyvin suunniteltu on jo puoliksi tehty.
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Tämän viikon podcast on hevosenomistajille, vuokraajille ja hoitajille. Tietoa myös ponivanhemmille. Hevosen omistajalla olisi hyvä olla hallussa muutamat perustaidot ja tiedot joista podcastissa enemmän. Sopii myös pitkään hevosalalla toimineille.
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Kengittäjä ja hevostenkouluttaja Mia Jurvala käsittelee asioita joita hevosen omistajien ja hoitajien olisi hyvä tietää hevosen kengityksestä, kavionhoidosta ja kavioiden terveydestä.
Osallistu Mian verkkokurssille Hevoskoulutus.fi sivustolla:
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What is the purpose of education and how can we accelerate ecological literacy in a largely eco-illiterate society?
I answer this question and add new directions to move education in and our contributions to this great work. -
On ‘the map is not the territory’, even though riders and trainers the world over act as if it is - and go so far as to ‘eat the menu’!
If a rider, vet, physio, saddler and farrier were all looking at a tricky horse, each would see a different problem within their area of expertise. We all see what we are looking for, informed by the ‘maps’ or internal representations that we have developed over years, and we tend to think that the problem we perceive is the one and only problem - complete with our tailor-made one and only solution. The zero, first and second toolkits are different approaches to riding and training that do not negate each other, but are simply different maps. But few exponents of these different maps perceive that their map might not be the only map. - Laat meer zien
