Groundwork P3: Teaching Lateral Movements using In-Hand Work

Gymnastic Groundwork Part 3 of 6: Teaching Lateral Movements.
This video is all about teaching lateral movements using clicker training.
Lateral exercises where your horse is going sideways as well as forwards are really useful to build your horse’s suppleness, strength and straightness, which is why they’ve been used for thousands of years in both in-hand training and ridden work! But, how do we teach them using positive reinforcement?
By training a combination of cues through the isolations (part 2), such as lateral flexions, shoulders over and quarters-over, we can combine these with our leading work. This makes it a clear and simple process for you and your horse.
In this video, you’ll see how to introduce lateral work from the ground in exercises such as leg-yield and shoulder-in and you’ll see Rowan learning haunches-in.
This is all trained softly with relaxation as a priority and I use a marker (clicker training) and rewards to motivate and reinforce my horse.
Watch the full Gymnastic Groundwork Demo series here:
Part 1: Getting started with In-Hand work: Leading and Connection
• Groundwork P1: Leading...
Part 2: How to start lateral flexions and shoulders & quarters over
• Groundwork P2: Lateral...
Part 4: Introducing pole exercises for confidence, body awareness and strength
• Groundwork P4: Introdu...
Part 5: Mats and pedestals for despooking and body awareness
• Groundwork P5: Using M...
Part 6: Lunging around a round pen, Teaching voice cues and collection with clicker training
• Groundwork P6: Lunging...
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[@countryquestportugal7711]

Really nice video! Thank you for sharing!

[@dianaalfaro4850]

Thank you for sharing your training techniques with us on youtube! They have shinned a light in many moments where I was ready to give up... I have been trying to teach Marley this exercise and the first day we were getting there, on the second session as I ask him to move over he does touch the target but shifts his bum to the side and faces me and we have to re-align and start again every time I ask, do you have any suggestions on how I could prevent or correct this response?

[@billiejoanne4345]

FIRST!!! Love the vids! They do help. First view too!

[@deirdredingman7857]

Explain the prop please . What have you trained her to do- is the ball where you want her head? I was thinking of tapping the horse with a ball at the end of a whip but that’s not what you’re doing

[@ConnectionTraining]

Its a hand held target used in positive reinforcement training. Targeting is one of the most useful behaviours you can train your horse for leading, loading, de-spooking, lunging, groundwork and riding etc. However before this you would need to teach target training so that your horse understands the task and is comfortable touching a target with their nose. It's all explained in our video What is Targeting you can find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZyvlKKQgMd4hZY