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Jan 5
5 min

Part 1: How to start using Positive Reinforcement through Clicker Training your horse.

Let’s start at the beginning, what is Positive Reinforcement (R+)? Have you heard of Positive Reinforcement? What about Clicker Training?...

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Part 2: Getting started with Clicker Training - how to ‘Charge the clicker’

Patricia Lincourt

Jan 5
5 min

Part 2: Getting started with Clicker Training - how to ‘Charge the clicker’

There are some very important steps to getting started with Clicker Training, one of which is getting your horse to associate the sound o...

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Liparit Hambardzumyan

Jan 3
3 min

Why are horses good for people?

This is a blog post guest written by one of our students at Lincourt Stables, Liparit Hambardzumyan. Liparit and his brothers have been l...

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Rachel Kerr

Dec 6, 2020
4 min

Lesson #6: Horses are horses, right?

Your horse is a horse, not a human. Obvious? Yes of course! Horses don’t remember things like humans do, they don’t think logically to as...

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Lesson #5: A creative journey in finding new teaching methods

Rachel Kerr

Sep 3, 2020
2 min

Lesson #5: A creative journey in finding new teaching methods

The past 6 months have been a challenge in many ways, but also an opportunity to try new things and be creative. One of the new elements w...

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Lesson #4: We are always learning! What 2020 has taught me so far, in equine terms.

Rachel Kerr

Aug 2, 2020
2 min

Lesson #4: We are always learning! What 2020 has taught me so far, in equine terms.

What 2020 has taught me so far, the view of an equestrian

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Lesson #3: Target practice - cones are your friend :)

Rachel Kerr

Jun 8, 2020
4 min

Lesson #3: Target practice - cones are your friend :)

We’ve moved on a little from your classic lunge lessons and on to using target practice on the ground and then in the saddle. The exercis...

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Episode #2: Our first lessons, the lunge!

Rachel Kerr

Jun 7, 2020
4 min

Episode #2: Our first lessons, the lunge!

We start on the lunge, the idea being that this would be a good way for me to get the feel of a big moving horse like Bob while not havin...

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Episode #1: The Bob diaries...Positive Reinforcement from the heart of Los Angeles.

Rachel Kerr

May 29, 2020
4 min

Episode #1: The Bob diaries...Positive Reinforcement from the heart of Los Angeles.

Before we start let me say a word about this diary…this is my experience of learning to work and use positive reinforcement methods to tr...

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Friday Thoughts - teaching tricks and having goals

Rachel Kerr

May 22, 2020
3 min

Friday Thoughts - teaching tricks and having goals

Below are some Friday thoughts to ponder upon...and that I ask myself when there is time to reflect. Please leave a comment below, we wou...

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Motivating your equine partner (and yourself) with positive reinforcement

Rachel Kerr

Mar 26, 2020
5 min

Motivating your equine partner (and yourself) with positive reinforcement

I wrote this blog several weeks ago, since then things have changed a great deal and we now find ourselves dealing with a new way of livi...

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Attending the Desert Circuit at Thermal, a beautiful place to be!

Rachel Kerr

Mar 8, 2020
2 min

Attending the Desert Circuit at Thermal, a beautiful place to be!

Attending the Desert Circuit at Thermal with Terra NOva to help educate around R+ positive reinforcement methods.

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Rachel Kerr

Jan 28, 2020
4 min

A very steep learning curve!

This week has been one of the steepest learning curves I have had around horses for a while. Last weekend I got on to ride as usual, feel...

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Big Balou starts his positive reinforcement journey!

Rachel Kerr

Jan 13, 2020
5 min

Big Balou starts his positive reinforcement journey!

How to start clicker training with horses from Lincourt Stables, Los Angeles.

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Rachel Kerr

Jan 4, 2020
5 min

Happy Goal Setting 2020...

Happy New Year! Yes a few days late but I found myself back into the daily grind and it took a few days to do some ‘goal setting’ for the...

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