He was being a very good boy for not trying to KILL anyone. I wish I had fottage of how he was before, of egsactly what PARELLI had done to this poor little man
He needs lots of encoragment and yes food. I don't shout at him if you get angry you have lost it and god help you if you hit him. As I said before he missed someones head by mm once when we where loading him I do admit parelli works for some horses it's clear to see it does but I just will not condone hitting a horse over the head with anyting be it a rope or a heavy clip. Out of intrest does the BHSI hit the horse over the head? If not she is more using Montys technec. Which is similer to Parelli but without the hitting over the head!
Few trainers who are idolised so are without their faults. 
Any method can be cruel in the hands of a novice or an experienced person. But it is fair enough to expect the experts at the top of a HUGE school of thought to get it right more often than not
I watched a video this week from Andrew McLean. One minute he was saying how the horse's mouth is so sensitive, the next he was shown yanking a chifney about in a horse's mouth because he moved one step because of the sound of clippers
As for loading horses, without referring to youtube I have seen someone with a parelli'd horse make a hash out of loading, seen zillions of bad loaders (that's the handler, not the horse!) at shows and events, and seen plenty of calm quiet and good loaders both traditionally and through natural horsemanship. Heck, I've sorted problem loaders myself, using traditional, a dually, and with natural horsemanship (but importantly not strictly parelli) methods. Maybe you haven't looked too far if you've only seen good examples of loading unwilling horses under the parelli style. Or maybe there are 100s of horses you've seen load ok but you never knew they used to have a problem
If there was one piece of advice that I could give to everyone, regardless of your preferred training method, its just what Laura says: take your time and have patience with your horse. Violence, rushing things, they solve nothing. Those are the two things that I object to in many parelli videos, yet it was Pat himself who was famous for quoting "take the time it takes". Yet again, I see more evidence which affirms my belief that Pat and Linda have seriously lost their way with horses.
Jodie, the real problem in forums like this is polarised views: "you all think this," and "you all say that," not to mention variants of the good old "you just don't understand horses." You come to the table with intelligence, so please don't get caught up in those circular arguements!
Congratulations on your fantastic work at liberty with your horse; I have only achieved maybe 20% of the things you have in that video.
I have seen some fantastic work with horses using NH methods. I've been a part of a fair bit myself. My arguement is that its almost never Linda or Pat in the instances I see that I like, and god knows I've studied them hard! The best NHmanship from under the Parelli umbrella that I have seen to date is where people take the Parelli programme and deviate from it to suit themselves and the horse.
My personal bug bear with the parelli programme is that if it is so good, why are there SO many videos around showing bad horsemanship, which feature linda and pat?! Catwalk, trailer loading, hitting the horse repeatedly with the carrot stick, hitting the horse repeatedly with the snap... compare them to videos of a much nicer nature, and see what proportion of each feature pat and or linda.
As a matter of interest, what video was that?I watched a video this week from Andrew McLean. One minute he was saying how the horse's mouth is so sensitive, the next he was shown yanking a chifney about in a horse's mouth because he moved one step because of the sound of clippers
Of course, but that does not mean that all "traditional" people resort to such crude, forceful methods, or that "natural" handlers are immune from using intense psychological pressure. Beware of creating false dichotomies.
It takes two to tango. Maybe if PP hadn't allowed matters to escalate, he wouldn't have found himself in the guddle that he did - and saved the horse unnecessary distress. Clearly "matching energy" was not the right strategy here; he would have done better to stick resolutely to the softly, softly approach - even though it would have been rather boring to watch.
Apparently they could bridle Catwalk, but with considerable difficulty. I'm not convinced that every traditional person, even someone professional, would realize the amount of time, patience and sensitivity that could easily be required to overcome extreme headshyness - or be able to set aside the time needed. (Counterconditioning would almost certainly be useful, but how many are prepared to employ food rewards in the rigorous way needed to be effective and not merely a distraction.)As for Catwalk, I didn't see the video but no ones going to convince me that there isn't a head girl at one of the Whitaker yards that can't bridle a difficult horse.