Note: This Lesson was originally produced as a DVD.  It is now available on-line.  The material has been updated and turned into a mini on-line course.  It is no longer available as a DVD.

Lesson 5: The "Why Would You Leave Me?" Game was originally part of the DVD Lesson series.  It has now been converted to an on-line mini course.  The DVD format is no longer available.

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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 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. It is part of the pre-riding safety check list every horse should be able to pass before you consider getting on.

Perfected the lesson takes you straight to lateral work and beautiful liberty training.  When I was first learning about lateral work, some twenty plus years ago, the teaching was not exactly fun for the horses (or the handlers). But I was willing to ask my horse to go through those tough lessons because I was convinced that lateral work was good for him.  It would help him to move better and to remain sounder longer.

 

Now all these years later I am all the more convinced of the value of lateral work.  I know it contributes to long term soundness. But with clicker training the teaching process has become much easier - and a lot more fun for everyone.  Once you know what to look for, lateral work pops out of many of the lessons you've been learning in this lesson series.  It's like the old expression: all roads lead to Rome.  Well in this case all lessons lead to lateral work!

 

In Lesson 2: Ground Manners lateral work was introduced via the duct tape lesson.  Now in this lesson I show you how they can be the natural by-product of this simple loose-lead leading exercise.

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This DVD was first produced in 2006