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Back to SearchEp. 34 The deep dive - let’s do it! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST WHILST DRIVING YOUR CAR OR OPERATING MACHINERY
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How neurons that fire together wire together, in both real and imagined practice. We do mental rehearsals of personal bests, as…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ep. 33 On mental rehearsal experiments, and how MR is best led by passion, but can become torture.
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Research on mental rehearsal has encompassed dart throwing, piano playing, and many other skills, often reporting improvements …
5 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 32 On mental rehearsal experiments, and how MR is best led by passion, but can become torture.
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Research on mental rehearsal has encompassed dart throwing, piano playing, and many other skills, often reporting improvements …
5 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 31 On how to get the best from your teacher, and mental rehearsal
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When pupils are ‘going through the motions’ of getting the horse to go, teachers tend to ‘go through the motions’ as well - or …
5 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 30 On the challenges of teaching authority, boundaries, and self belief.
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In riding, negative expectations so often become the reality (as in ‘I hope we don’t stop at the ditch!…’). When things are goi…
5 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 29 On stuffing, intention, and giving leg aids consciously.
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Most riders give repeated leg aids that actually train the horse to be dead to their leg. If you have to kick to get each step …
5 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 28 - On toolkits, tantrums and leg aids
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Trainers will always be prejudiced against the toolkits they don’t understand, can’t be bothered with, or do so brilliantly (an…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 27 More on the Zero toolkit, overshadowing, and the transition from ground work to riding.
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How proponents of the 3 toolkits interact like the proverbial 3 blind men with the elephant. More on the Zero toolkit, overshad…
5 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 26 On ‘the map is not the territory’
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On ‘the map is not the territory’, even though riders and trainers the world over act as if it is - and go so far as to ‘eat th…
5 years, 8 months ago
Ep. 25 - The pitfalls of buying a new horse
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So much of riding is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You get run away with from the moment you decide you’re being run away with… s…
5 years, 8 months ago