On 23/02/2008, Mic Rushen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think they have got a point though, in a way, in that many of the > worst excesses in Icelandic horse training have come from Big Lick > methods. Trouble is, the anti-BL feeling in the USA has not yet > crossed over as well!
I just don't understand why people aren't learning from it. See where other's have gone before and not go there. We still have people thinking it's fine to 'balance' a gait with weights (to name one example)...they don't see that as a mechanical device at all. Why is that? AND I'm not talking about show people here, I'm talking about the ordinary owners that are having their horses trained with some of these savage guru's...and thinking it's just fine. If you pay $10,000 for a horse and bring it home, and change it's shoes or pull them, and your horse suddenly loses his 'tolt'...chances are he's had a mechanical breakdown.... I don't know, maybe I'd feel like I'd been had...and just keep going down that path because I wouldn't want to admit that I was that naive... Wanda
