With clicker training, you can teach your horse all the skills he needs and have fun at the same time. With clicker training, your horse learns faster because he is actively trying to learn what you are aiming to teach him. You are truely working as partners toward a common goal and horses become enthusiastic about work with clicker training.
Everything from basic manners to upper level performance can be taught with the clicker. Clicker training combines beautifully with other training systems. It's not necessarily a substitute for, but an enhancement of techniques you already know. Although it can be a stand alone method too. The clear "yes" answer of the clicker accelerates the learning curve and creates eager, happy horses, who enjoy their work.
Most horse training works on "Negative Reinforcement" which essentially means that some form of pressure is applied to the horse until they are doing what is wanted, then the pressure is released. This obviously works, it is how the vast majority of horses are currently trained. Clicker training however, works using "Positive Reinforcement" which means that the horse is taught that the click noise means "Yes! That's Right!" This means that the trainer can be very precise in what they are looking for from the horse, and that what is wanted becomes very clear, almost immediately, to the horse. The vast majority of horses learn and remember very quickly and the possibilities of what they can be trained to do are vastly enhanced and speeded up by enable equine clicker training.
What is enable equine clicker training good for? The real answer here is; everything it is fair and reasonable to train a horse to do. There are some things I would consider it unethical to teach a horse to do because they would not be in the horses best interest psychologically or physically. Otherwise the sky is the limit! The more a horse is trained to do, the more self expression they have. It increases the horses ability to behave ways that humans consider intelligent and well behaved, it also improves performance and confidence. The horse learns easily all the things that are wanted, and not only how to learn but how to communicate to their handlers.
Some basic training goals. Calmness. Being gentle and sensible to handle. Good manners towards people and other animals. Confidence in the training and trainer. The horses own confidence. Being courageous and not spooky. Performing any required groundwork or ridden work happily and safely. Thinking and problem solving skills. Good leading, loading and travelling. Enthusiasm for work. Obedience. Plus all the specific training goals for individual disciplines such as dressage, jumping and showing. It is a very effective way to improve paces, to teach the horse how to use it's body well and develop self carriage.
With enable equine clicker training everything from the basics to high level performance can be taught so that the horse truely understands what is being asked for and how to do it to the best of their capacity.
Most "bad" behaviour in horses is the result of confusion, fear or having been inadvertently trained to do something undesirable at some point. All of this is reversible!
I can train your horse for you from the ground, and ridden if appropriate. In the course of training the horse, if you are able to be present, you will be taught how to clicker train for yourself, it is a very kind method. The qualities required to become an expert clicker trainer are precise timing coupled with detailed obsevation. A knowledge of the aim of any particular exercise and the ability to deconstruct a desirable behaviour into component parts that can be trained separately when necessary, plus the knowledge and skill to shape the horses behaviour so that they are very likely to make steps in the right direction.
Enable equine clicker training is a very effective, kind and gentle method, it does not create fear, stress or discomfort for the horse. The idea is that the horse actively participates in the process of learning. Most horses pick it up within moments, but it can be taken very slowly and gently with particularly troubled or sensitive horses. The training is always moulded to the welfare and character of the horse, and the needs and ambitions of the rider or handler.