May 24 2023 70 mins 6
Georgia Bruce is an Equine Behaviour Consultant with the IAABC (International Association of Animal Behaviour Consultants), level 1 Dressage Judge and qualified Dressage Coach with Equestrian Australia.
She has ridden successfully up to FEI level in open dressage and has represented Australia on 12 occasions including the Trans Tasman Challenge New Zealand, The Dutch Open, twice at the World Para Dressage Championships as well as the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens and the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, where Georgia won 2 bronze medals riding the 18hh gelding Victory Salute.
As well as performance horse training Georgia also enjoys teaching horses liberty and tricks. Her passion is animal learning, training and behaviour analysis. Georgia loves empowering horse owners with the knowledge and skills to build positive relationships with their horses and achieve their training goals.
She believes the future of horse training is the artful combination of modern behaviour science, ethology and biomechanics together with the wisdom passed down from the old masters in horsemanship and dressage.
In this episode we discuss:
- Georgia’s broad horsemanship journey from humble beginnings, representing Australia 12 times competing internationally in dressage, and training Rumba the wonder horse to do all the Grand Prix movements AT LIBERTY!
- All things clicker training and positive reinforcement, what it is, the benefits, the magic of the clicker/marker, and how Georgia uses it in her training today
- When Georgia does use pressure/release (negative reinforcement) in her training
- Common mistakes people make when using clicker training
- Examples of shaping behaviours for performance horses for example riding a shoudler in, or riding a dressage test that has been trained with positive reinforcement
- How to keep food anxiety low when building duration of behaviours
- How to get started with clicker training
- All the usual fun horsemanship breakthroughs questions
- Plus so much more!
Find out more about Georgia Bruce here:
Website: https://clickwithhorses.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgiaBruce
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaBruce.ClickWithHorses
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