MaryG
New User
I just wondered if anyone else got this DVD and what they thought of it? Linda Parelli taking over 2 hours, literally, to lead a horse over some tarpaulin but giving a wonderful (if only to her) commentary about how the horse was flipping between being a right brain introvert to a left brain extravert and then actually assessing Attention Deficit Disorder. Apparently Pats even got a horse at home that hes assessed as bi-polar ahhh what wonderful labels on horses to stop you looking at yourself. Linda says that although to some people this might be like watching paint dry if you are a REAL horseman you will see the great value of the patience she was showing. Patience wasn't having any effect so curiously after an hour and a half and clearly no progress at all she asks for jazzy music to be played. Then I saw the reason for the music. It seems you can get away with really getting tough with your carrot stick and rope if you have the right music. I wonder if British audiences will be as blind to this as American audiences clearly are?
Her actual aim was to trailer load the horse but she couldnt get him near the trailer in the show but they showed video of her trying to load him that night with no audience present to load the next day. She blamed her awful timing of aids on having to talk to the audience at the same time but genuinely didnt seem to realise how difficult she makes it for the horse.
First lot of music did not work so more music asked for and he really got some proper smacks next time. He stepped over tarpaulin after two hours. Not consistently but did manage to run over it a couple of times but even before he had done that she started saying you could see how wonderful her programme was and students could come to them for $5000 and how grateful they were. Pause. Then she said but what theyd done is filmed the whole course because they were worried about people that could not afford it (bless) so it was now in a box for $1000. Sales technique faultless as paused for dramatic effect . But she had talked to Pat and they had agreed that on this day ONLY they would reduce the price to $450 and the first 50 people would go into a prize raffle. Is there no limit to this womans generosity?
Some woman suggested that people might say that the horse looked exactly the same at the end as he did at the beginning and Linda explained that if they werent REAL horse people who have studied their Horse-anality programme that very well might be what it looked like but if they had they would realise it was very different because he was running around through fear at the beginning whereas now he was running around through excitement. The Kings New Suit of Clothes very much came to mind at this moment.
This is just an honest assessment. I guess not many other people will have seen this DVD but if you have Id be very interested if you saw something helpful in it that I didnt?
Mary G
If you want to know about the pack dont worry Ill give a review later on in the week. Its actually worse than I could have possibly imagined although of course everyone must make up their own mind but I appreciate this site for allowing me to assist people to not throw money away or abuse horses without fully realising what they are doing.
