Course curriculum
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Instructions for this course
- Fillin' In The Gaps- Groundwork Style
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Welcome to the course!
- A message from your instructor
- Tools
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Important Principles and Theories
- Finding A Starting Point
- Methods of Training
- Self Control
- Make The Right Thing Easy
- Cues, Escalation of Pressure and The 3 Second Rule
- Balance
- Fight, Flight, Freeze
- Hot Horses
- Cold/Lazy Horses
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Tips N Tricks
- Lazy Horses
- Relaxation
- Feel
- Mentally Picturing What You Want
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Week 1: Relaxation Work
- Lesson #1: Observation
- Exercise #2: Observation In The Work Environment
- Exercise #3: Relaxation For The Human
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Week 2: Round Pen
- The Roundpen Exercise with Turtle
- Roundpen Step #1 with Monkey
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Week 3: Roundpen Cont...
- Week 3: Transitions
- More Examples of Transitions
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Week 4: Roundpen Cont...
- Changes of Direction
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Week 5: Untracking and Following
- Untracking and Following you around
- More On The Follow
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Week 5: Online Work- Establishing The Yield
- The Near 90 Degree Yield Departures
- The Online Task
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Week 6: Yielding The Hindquarters
- Yielding The Hindquarters
- Example w/ 2 yo Oliver
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Week 7: Leading
- Leading
- Leading A Distracted or Pushy Horse #1
- Leading A Distracted Horse #2
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Week 8: Backing Up
- Backing Up
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Week 9: Yielding The Forequarters
- Yielding The Forequarters
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Week 10: Lateral Flexion
- Lateral Flexion
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Week 11: Between Us And The Fence
- Between Us And The Fence
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