Parelli - opinions

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Ok, I will start by saying I know nothing about parelli! I happened to watch some of it on Horse & Country TV last night. To be honest, from what I saw I wasnt impressed at all! I thought parelli involved practical things like teaching horses to happily load into a trailer on their own etc. but this was nothing like it! Did anyone else see it? Everything they did we could easily teach our own horses to do in the usual way. They reversed a horse round a barrel. I think I could do that without really trying. They made the horse (after quite a few attempts.....) straddle a pole on the floor. And the girl was meant to canter down a line and try to do as many simple canter changes as possible - she managed ONE change..... I swear most of us could have done way more!

I just found it all very odd. Especially as the woman kept going on about how the reins where attached to the bit with "ties" which give way if the rider puts on too much pressure, well they gave way so often that she eventually put a few on!! What's the point in this? It clearly didnt work!

I also watched a bit on the end with some dude (think it was Mr Parelli?!) trying to say the horse he had on the end of a lunge favoured a big rubber ball...... except he MADE it favour it because he'd spook the horse away from the ball with his whip and basically scare the horse if he was away from the ball by flicking the lunge rope like hell so the ONLY comfortable place for the horse was the ball. I didnt see ANY skill whatsoever. I saw a horse who wasnt very happy and who looked very confused!

Im sure Ill get shot down by Parelli people for this.....! Sorry but Im always very open to this sort of thing and would love to favour natural methods but from what I saw on TV, well it was laughable!
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here we go again.................

I wonder if this post will get as big as the one admin started?
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oh, and its not my cup of tea either!

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not sure about parelli but i have done a bit of the monty roberts stuff with my young naughty cob who used to squash me against a wall! after doing join up (well my way rather than theres!!) he now moves over when tied up wothout being touched i can just face him squarely and say over, and he does, i think bits work other bits dont, please dont think i hadnt tried other methods first ie pushing back but he'd just push harder, then tried samcking with hand then a whip... he started kicking out... it was after a visit from the vet who my cob knocked to the floor by pushing him about, the vet said to try parelli/monty roberts etc... looked at parelli and wasnt that intrigued by it.. ive since bought a monty roberts dvd about join up.... so we'll see what happens, but its doen to the individual horse and i think what might work on another may not work on others !!!
 
I thought straddling the barrels & getting the horse to traverse them along their length was quite interesting but as for the rest of it, I really wasn't that impressed at all!
The thing with the giant ball made me feel quite uncomfortable actually, as the poor horse clearly didn't have a clue what it was supposed to doing or why!

Throughout the whole 'demonstration', I kept imagining how the Baggage would react to the constantly whirling, flapping, snaking lines & am pretty sure she would tolerate it for only a very short while before it would be ears back, head down & she took a run at you! Poor LBO I think, would simply have been terrified by the whole thing!
 
MM I saw this last night and thought exactly the same as you!! It's definitely not my cup of tea either. Will probably get shot down in flames for this by the die hard fans but I have often wondered why so many (nearly all) of the horses on Project Horses have been "parellied or NH or IH??
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Oh it would be this you are talking about? Here is Pat's horse playing with it. Anyone recognise the brand on the horse's butt????

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joanne1920 - Ive done join up with mine too. That's what I thought parelli was about, obviously not!

Parisienne_Girl - Woops sorry, I missed that post I think!!

And with regard to the ball thing, one thing especially bugged me - the guy said "right now he's going to look at the ball and then me" which the horse did. But thats not clever! The horse is confused and so naturally would do that. The crowd all jeered as if they were amazed the guy had read the horses mind!
 
well one of my friends did parelli with her horse and she did loads of courses and clinics ect so she got on it bare back at home with the strange reins which broke of and the horse was bolting around the arena then jumped a gate...futher more the horse had turned into a rude bolshy git on the ground...so to be honest i dont think it does much in my opinion.
 
And you have just highlighted why Parelli gets the sort of press it gets!!! Bloody stupid idiotic people who have no idea, getting up to this sort of mischief. What a clown your friend is.
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Oh no not this again!!!
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Not for me,.. besides I couldnt afford to do it if I wanted to!
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He he - you mean you don't think £200ish for a glorified lunge whip is a good deal?? Can't imagine why??!!!
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I saw it for the first time on Horse and Country TV a few days ago and was seriously unimpressed. The horse looked hollow, tense and unhappy - which is not what I would consider something to aspire to! I just looked complete b*ll*cks to me.

I have had help from someone who trains with Kelly Marks - he is very practical and talks a lot of sense, and what he does seems to work and the horses are all happy to be around him. He wasn't impressed with parelli either.
 
Oh no don't get me started, we have a "Parelli Buff" on the yard, just can't get my head around this waving a carrot stick in the horses face and all this flicking of the rope and oh everything....... Also thinks she's a little on the mad side......

I should think if somebody sat me down and told me the ins and outs then I would get the idea, but they may have to keep waking me up.......

Sorry just not my thing.....
 
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I didn't get that bit either Tharg & feel very stupid & 'out of the loop' now!
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Did'nt see it but have seen various demos etc and think it is a load of sh1t. Horsemanship is a mixture of knowledge, experience and technique not to forget the ability to understand what the horse is tellling you and act on it accordingly - Parelli is in my opinion a load of over marketed crap for scared novices and people who really shouldnt have horses at all.
 
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Oh it would be this you are talking about? Here is Pat's horse playing with it. Anyone recognise the brand on the horse's butt????

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anyone able to explain to me the purpose of this?!
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Confused of Oxfordshire...
 
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Parelli is in my opinion a load of over marketed crap for scared novices and people who really shouldnt have horses at all.

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So you don't like it then?
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Everything my horses 'need me to be', I think I already am & the rest of it they probably couldn't give a stuff about anyway!
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Oh it would be this you are talking about? Here is Pat's horse playing with it. Anyone recognise the brand on the horse's butt????

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anyone able to explain to me the purpose of this?!
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Confused of Oxfordshire...

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The purpose of this is:

1. Very useful for having space hopper races.
2. If a mare has a foal she will already know how to use those big blue maternity ball thingys......LOL
 
lol I have just watched the same programme, it must be repeated loads!

I can't get my head around when she was pulling that horse about to get it to stand still, then get the horse to decide to stand then agree with it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but surely a horse should do what the owner/rider tells it, not do what it likes??
 
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Did'nt see it but have seen various demos etc and think it is a load of sh1t. Horsemanship is a mixture of knowledge, experience and technique not to forget the ability to understand what the horse is tellling you and act on it accordingly - Parelli is in my opinion a load of over marketed crap for scared novices and people who really shouldnt have horses at all.

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LOL!! The only people I know who do it are scared of their horses and I suspect it's a handy excuse not to ride them!!!
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i honestly dont see whats wrong with

someone telling you how to look after <u>your</u> horse
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prancing about the yard with a long carrot stick and a halter, that looks like it cost £2 to make
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Oh it would be this you are talking about? Here is Pat's horse playing with it. Anyone recognise the brand on the horse's butt????

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anyone able to explain to me the purpose of this?!
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Confused of Oxfordshire...

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The purpose of this is:

1. Very useful for having space hopper races.
2. If a mare has a foal she will already know how to use those big blue maternity ball thingys......LOL

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PMSL!
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My opinion of parelli is that it is a load of overpriced, common sense with a bizarre twist to it so that naiive novices and people who are too scared to ride their own horses can convince themselves they are 'doing the right thing'...
 
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