--- Janice McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Like that photo of the guy riding an icelandic horse doing the
> flying
> pace with no bridle and no reins and no saddle. That was awesome,
> beautiful, mindboggling. But Pat Parelli and Satcie Westfall and
> Lynn
> Palm have been doing that for years and even judy on this list did
> it
> way before that guy. He probably stole it from us :) hey, we're
> trendsetters! yay. maybe theres some other good stuff they can
> learn
> from us!
> Janice--
This brings up the thing I have about Parelli, as I do not like the
training methods he uses, but I have never been to any of his
clinics. So it might just be that I do not like the way people that
purchase his program implement his training methods...which by the
way really a lot of old stuff in fancy Expensive Marketing...my
opinion.
Anyway, All of the people that I see that use the Parelli program do
this weird terrible thing with the lead rope...they swing it in the
horses face, moving it like a snake, flapping it around. Its
ridiculous. The horses become afraid of the lead rope (something I
do not want my horses to feel), and if you want your horse to move
back all you need to do is the correct posturing without a rope,
horses seem to understand body launguage much better than flapping
lead ropes in their face......
Does anyone else have that experience with Parelli trained horses, or
is it just the people here on the island that seems to abuse that
part of his teachings?
skye
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