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January 13, 2010
Jackson
Session 1: I worked him for about an
hour. We started out working on the bow and
obeisance with a lay down or two thrown in
there. We also continued working on Jackson
going to the barrel, touching it, then
coming back to me. He did much better! I was
able to send him to the barrel from about 20
feet away, he would go touch it, and then
come back to me! I am sure it isn’t reliable
yet, but it is a start.
I rode him again and we are still struggling
with the canter. He likes to really toss his
head a lot. I don’t put pressure on the
bridle, but he tosses his head. If he lopes
nicely without any head tossing, I click and
reward him, but he doesn’t seem to bet
getting it. I am not sure if I need to do
more endotapping or what?
On another note, I noticed that when I am
lunging Jackson with the cordeo, I use too
much pressure and that the lunge line is too
often pulled taught. My fault, of course,
but I want to try something to see if I can
work on that. It will be combining Donald’s
idea for teaching ground tying and trying to
never get the line get tight. I will try
lunging Jackson with the cordeo, if he pulls
away from me, I will let the rope slide and
never get tight, even if he pulls it out of
my hand. In conjunction, I will teach him
that when the lead rope hits the ground, he
should stop. That is the idea anyway ;)
Session 2: I decided that I wanted to
try my idea for lunging and work on his
canter. I decided that I wasn’t going to
close the hand holding the lunge line. I
worked mostly with Jackson going to the
left. He did great! He was even cantering
very nicely and consistently! He would keep
cantering until I clicked. I did work on
ground tying, but only for a few minutes. We
will see how it goes.
That session did reveal another hole in my
training. I realized that I don’t have any
downshift cues while lunging! 8 ) I realized
that I need to go back and work on my body
language and teach Jackson to slow down or
speed up with really subtle cues! How could
I have missed that? Oh well, I know to work
on it now!
After Jackson did really well lunging, I
decided to saddle him up and ride him in the
bosal. I haven’t saddled him up in at least
a month. I lunged him with the cordeo after
I tacked him up and he did really well. None
of that throwing his head up or anything.
Then I rode him for a little bit and he did
very well! He was trotting nicely and the
few times he offered the passage, he felt
stronger. Then I asked him to lope and I saw
a huge difference from this morning! He was
much calmer and more relaxed. He didn’t
throw his head up once.
Yay!!!
Sadeem
I just worked with him for about 5 minutes.
I worked a little bit on parking out, which
we made no progress on (or so it seemed),
and a little on ramener, which seems a
little bit better.
I also did a very short session of asking
him to sit on the hay bales. I think that
one of us was too impatient. He doesn’t seem
to want to focus on that task. I think I
need to go back to some basics of clicker
training with him.
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