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Series One: The Click That Teaches Foundation Lessons  - Available in DVD Format

An Introduction to Clicker Training

Lesson One: Getting Started with the Clicker

Lesson Two: Ground Manners

Lesson Three: Head Lowering: Your Calm-Down Cue

Lesson Four: Stimulus Control: Putting Behavior on Cue

I recommend that you begin with these foundation lessons before moving on to the second set of DVDs.  Scroll down this page to learn more about these DVDs.

Series Two*

* Note: The DVDs in this series are designed to accompany the major lessons and concepts covered in "The Click That Teaches: Riding with the Clicker". Not all of the lessons will be looking directly at riding.  Some of the lessons will be focused on ground work exercises, but they will be covering concepts which are key to understanding the ridden work. 

The "Why Would You Leave Me?" Game

Shaping on the Point of Contact

"T'ai Chi" Rope Handling Exercises

Three-Flip-Three: Understanding Lateral Flexions

New!!!!! Overcoming Fear and the Power of Cues

New!!!!! Microshaping: Learning to See the Smallest Try

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An Introduction to Clicker Training

Learn how to: get started with the clicker; solve problems; work with foals; teach basic good manners;ride with the clicker; turn your horse into a performance Star!

$19.95   Three Hour DVD

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Lesson One: Getting Started with the Clicker

This DVD includes the original two hour video lesson: "Getting Started with the Clicker” plus a one hour bonus video; “The Six Foundation Lessons of Clicker Training.”

Lesson One focuses on clicker training basics: Introducing your horse to the clicker and the key foundation lessons that create safe, polite horses.

$39.95   Three Hour DVD Comes with a free clicker

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Lesson Two: Ground Manners

Come have a private lesson with Alexandra Kurland in this two hour introduction to lunging and lateral work.

                                     Topics covered:


           * Pressure as a communication tool
           * Backing
           * Basic Leading: Foal handling and Ground Manners
           * The “Duct Tape” lesson
           * Putting an End to crowding: Lunging and Lateral Work
           * Understanding Balance

$29.95 Two hour DVD

    

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Lesson Three: Head Lowering: Your Calm Down Cue

When I started “The Click That Teaches” video lesson series,
this was the video that I most wanted to make. Head lowering
can be such a transforming exercise for many horses. Most of us
know that horses tend to be calmer when their heads are down.
This lesson does more than just calm a horse down. It helps to
put an end to barging, rearing, bullying behavior. It develops
emotional control and stabilizes the good behavior we want. It
is a key foundation lesson for all advanced training.”

$29.95 Two Hour DVD

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Lesson 4: Stimulus Control: Putting Behavior on Cue

Stimulus control stabilizes behavior and creates good manners.

Cues act like green lights. They tell the horse which behavior will earn him reinforcement at this particular moment. When a behavior is fully on cue, you are saying to your horse that you want the behavior when you ask for it and ONLY when you ask for it.

“Lesson 4: Stimulus Control” will show you how to teach cues, and how to use them to create a mannerly, focused, happy horse. When you hear the word “respect”, think stimulus control instead.

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The "Why Would You Leave Me?" Game

The “Why would you leave me?” Game is one of the key lessons featured in “The Click That Teaches: Riding with the Clicker.” Essentially this lesson teaches teaches your horse loose leash leading. It begins by teaching your horse to walk with you on a slack lead - no pulling, forging ahead, or lagging behind. Perfected the lesson takes you straight to lateral work and beautiful liberty training.

This video is intended to accompany the book, “The Click That Teaches: Riding with the Clicker”.

$29.95   One Hour Video 

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Shaping on a Point of Contact

(Produced Dec. 2006)

Physical balance has many benefits for your horse. He'll stay sounder longer. he'll have smoother, more beautiful gaits. And he'll be more focused and emotionally settled. How do you bring a horse into physical balance? By shaping on a point of contact so your horse becomes internally body aware and learns how to adjust his own balance. find out what that means and learn the skills to help your own horse achieve physical and emotional balance in this two hour DVD lesson.

$29.95 Two hour/twenty minutes DVD

    

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T'ai Chi Rope Handling Exercises

(Produced Jan. 2007)

Do you know what your lead feels like to your horse?  Can he trust your hand? Or are you inadvertently poisoning the clicker training experience with too much force? These t'ai chi" rope handling exercises will improve your balance, help you develop a more secure riding position, and give you a better understanding of the lead rope as a communication tool.

$29.95 One Hour/forty miuntes DVD

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Three-Flip-Three:

Understanding Lateral Flexions

(Produced March 2007)

If you can count to three, you can teach your horse lateral work. 

When you follow the step by step lessons presented in this lesson series, that's how easy it is to teach your horse lateral work. Lateral work helps to steady your horse emotionally; it creates soft, rideable gaits; and it helps to maintain your horse's soundness. Find out how to teach your horse lateral flexions using the Three-Flip-Three counted exercise in this two hour DVD presented by Alexandra Kurland.

$29.95 Two Hour DVD

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Overcoming Fear and the Power of Cues

(Produced Dec. 2007)

Muska is a young Icelandic who developed a fear of saddles after a riding accident.  Follow her lesson as we use the power of cues to remove her fear of saddles.

This two hour DVD shows you how to overcome a fear issue using head lowering;  highlights the importance of mechanical skills; shows you how to build duration into your head lowering behavior; teaches you how to combine advance and retreat techniques with the clicker; how to read your horse's body language; and how to recognize and use the cues that evolve during the shaping process.

If you have been struggling a bit to make clicker training work for you and your horse, this DVD may provide you with many answers.  You'll see common mistakes people make that can confuse, or frustrate a horse during the learning process.  Little details can make a huge difference as you'll see in this two hour DVD lesson presented by Alexandra Kurland

 

$29.95 Two Hour DVD

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Microshaping: Learning to See The Smallest Try

(Produced Jan. 2008)

Learn how to see small details in movement and how to put those tiny shifts in balance to work for you to:

* calm herd-bound horses

* manage separation anxiety

* create beautiful gaits

* maintain long term soundness

Microshaping is "Equine Pilates" - Shaping for a Sound Spine.  Learn what that means in this two hour lesson presented by Alexandra Kurland.

$29.95 Two Hour DVD

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The Click That Teaches Video Lesson Series:

An Overview and Mission Statement

In this series I want to show you how to use the clicker to create the horse of your dreams. These videos are designed to be in-depth private lessons. Suppose you could call me up and arrange to have me come to your barn to help you with your horses. That would be a great way to get started with the clicker, and that’s essentially what I’ve done with these video lessons. I can’t actually travel to your barn, but with these videos I can show you the nuts and bolts details of clicker training.

For horses it’s not enough to understand in general terms how clicker training works. To be successful with horses you need to understand the principles of good training, AND you need to develop good handling skills. Since we ride the animals we train, good handling skills are probably more important than they are for any other species. Make a mistake with a dog, and you have a rude pet. Make a similar mistake with a horse, and it can get you both hurt. As a teacher, it isn’t enough simply to introduce you to clicker training. I want to provide you, lesson by lesson, with the skills you’ll need to create an outstanding partnership with your horse. My goal for this series is to create a close substitute for my coming to your barn and working directly with you and your horse.

Most videos are produced by professional production companies. That means that all the filming is done over a very small block of time. The result is a very narrow view of training. What a horse presents on the day filming takes place is the limit of what you see. I wanted something different. I want to help you train your horse, and for that you need to see real training occurring over a period of time. You need to see all the little details that make a difference, and you need to see what happens when something goes wrong. Training is not all smooth sailing. Horses are like toddlers. They have days when they are perfect, and days when they can drive you crazy.

Training is also a matter of balance opposing requests. For every behavior you teach, there is an opposite behavior that must be kept in balance. If you teach your horse to stand still, you’re also going to need to teach him to move forward. If you teach him to move out, you’re going to need to teach him to stop. If you teach him to drop his nose to the ground, you’re going to need to teach him to lift it back up. To truly master an exercise you have to bring it into balance with the rest of your horse’s training. These videos are part of an on-going series that will teach you how to do just that. In a sense they are not videos at all, but a series of lessons.

Thanks to the hi-tech world we’re living in, I have access to professional-quality digital cameras and editing equipment. That means I can film the same horses over extended periods of time and show you how training progresses. As a teacher I can focus in on the details of a lesson that will help you to be successful. That’s my intent with this series. But please understand that I am not a professional videographer. And just as you are learning how to train horses with the clicker, I am learning how to make videos with the equipment I have. It is all a shaping process. In particular, Lesson 1, the first video I produced has some technical problems. The sound quality is less than ideal. However, the training information is solid. You just have to bear with me as I learn the craft of video production.

Thinking outside the "box"

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