CAUTION: Parelli thread!!

[Donkeymad]

So, what do you guys think to this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1PjHHDPGm8&NR=1

 

[JanetGeorge]

Mmmmm.... one wonders why. I get my BIG horses to lower their necks when dismounting and I slide gently down them to save my ankles from jarring, but I can't think of a much more ungainly and laborious method of mounting than that.

Why not just teach the horse to lie down on command, and then get up when you're mounted??

 

[Damnation]

I want to know what the point of it is? :\

 

[teresagarsden]

If i tried that with my old pony she would tip up on her nose, or she would soon learn the new improved neck slide. he he
Teresa

 

[TS_]

I wouldn't put all of my weight on my horses neck on purpose. I mean hanging off your horses neck and then putting pressure on it as you sping up can't be good. To me it looked like someone who'd never ridden before trying to mount a horse, and failing

 

[RubysGold]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WQyWrWAdrc&NR=1&feature=fvwp This was on related.
I would have thought that would damage the horses neck?!
Nickie

 

[Natch]

Its not a parelli thing, its an old thing (that possible parelli coined, I don't know)

 

[Natch]

I love this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRPQIIZkyY8&NR=1

Makes it look so easy!

 

[Rosehip]

Could they not just learn to vault on like any normal person??

 

[Chestnuttymare]

I saw this when I wasa kid, way before there was any parelli going on over here. I wondered then why they would do that, am still wondering now!.
Surely that sort of strain on a horses neck can't be good for it.

 

[SharerSarah]

I was always told a horses neck is much stronger than you think, demonstrated by my instructor who put her arms around the top of the horses neck and lifted her feet of the ground, horse didnt look bothered at all. But then i guess there is a difference between having a suspended weight and a weight you are expected to lift.

 

[Charmaine18]

That looks like it would hurt the horse.... I don't know much about horse physiology though. I definitately wouldn't want to try it. Vaulting on LOOKS so much more graceful, too!