M --- Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I went to a John Lyons clinic one time, given by two certified Lyons trainers.
> Also the rope slinging is too much for me. There is no sense > whatsoever in slinging a rope at a horse's rear while he races > around a roundpen in a complete state of panic. All that is is the old cowboy way of training thru fear and intimidation in my opinion. But Lyons has so much good info in his magazine etc. He knows so much. The rope slinging you mention about John Lyons...its funny because that is the way I feel about Parrelli, I just can not stand the games things and all the lead rope motion in the horses face. Every horse that I have met where the owner has done the Parrelli method, the horses have some big issues that come from it...pulling back when tied up...they have learned through the methods that pressure on the lead rope means back up, and fast, so when tied if they create pressure themselves they go back...I have seen horses trained by his methods to freak out and take out posts in cement....and I have a long list of horses that I have seen trained by his DVDs...now I know it might be the people mis interpeting this, however, it seems rampant with the trainers that use those methods.... I never want my horse to have any fear of the lead rope....ever! Why? You have to use a lead rope to halter and lead, to move them around....to tie them up...I use my body launguage...its pretty simple, and the horses already understand it, as that is how they communicate with each other..... And in all games there is a winner and a loser, I never want my horse to feel defeated...I want to inspire them to do their best in whatever it is, is their gift. My 2 cents about the god of Marketing (Parrelli) (he got a ton of people to pay big bucks for a rope halter and lead rope, pretty good marketing) Storme ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL
