dominobrown
Well-Known Member
*having a rant because I really don't feel well this morning, anyone got the symptoms for blood poisoning???*
Nearly every other post has been about parelli and NH etc recently. Can everyone please remember-
1) What works for other people may not work for you
2) There are many types of so called horsemanship, but basically there is bad horsemanship and good horsemanship, end of!
3) Parelli and other techniques are over marketed. Basically the theory is doing groundwork with your horse will improve your relationship with it.
4) Some people have very closed minds and think 'this is the way things have always been done so it is right and the only way to do this', not true. Though neither is ''I can't control my horse, as it takes the pee out of me, so I am going to spend a lot of money on stuff, join 'clubs' and by lots of other stuff with a certain brand name on it and magically my horse will become fantastic'', not true!
I have kept quiet about all this parelli stuff etc until now. My mum uses Parelli on her basically because she is scared of it, she is not doing it any harm but neither is it making any difference to be honest. I have been on a parelli course once (I was made to go!). I didn't know how to put on the stupid parelli halter thing (why on earth does it tie on, really?!) and the people there were looking at me like 'OMG she is an idiot!', although there were very nice, there were what i would say were stereotypical 'type', western saddles etc, and I was there with my jumping saddle and WBxTB, looked a bit out a place!
Anyways me and my horse trust each other, and I am not scared of him, which helps and by the end of the 2 days I was jumping him in one of stupid rope halter things which was amazing, while the some of the others struggled as their horses just didn't respect them and although I was a 'parelli' novice I have worked with horse for quite a long time so know how to handle them etc.
Where I currently work we break horses in. I would say things are done very traditionally, though I have seen my boss do join up with her horse just for fun because she is natural horseman. She also got on a 3 year old of hers for the first time in headcoller and it was fine because it trusted her completely, and had done a lot of groundwork (which is basically parelli without all the carrot sticks etc, long reining etc working the horse from the ground will have the same effect!)
Basically, in the longest EVER post is that all you really need is common sense which seems to be lacking, an open mind and not get swept up with things!
Agree???
One 5 course meal coming for reading this!!
Nearly every other post has been about parelli and NH etc recently. Can everyone please remember-
1) What works for other people may not work for you
2) There are many types of so called horsemanship, but basically there is bad horsemanship and good horsemanship, end of!
3) Parelli and other techniques are over marketed. Basically the theory is doing groundwork with your horse will improve your relationship with it.
4) Some people have very closed minds and think 'this is the way things have always been done so it is right and the only way to do this', not true. Though neither is ''I can't control my horse, as it takes the pee out of me, so I am going to spend a lot of money on stuff, join 'clubs' and by lots of other stuff with a certain brand name on it and magically my horse will become fantastic'', not true!
I have kept quiet about all this parelli stuff etc until now. My mum uses Parelli on her basically because she is scared of it, she is not doing it any harm but neither is it making any difference to be honest. I have been on a parelli course once (I was made to go!). I didn't know how to put on the stupid parelli halter thing (why on earth does it tie on, really?!) and the people there were looking at me like 'OMG she is an idiot!', although there were very nice, there were what i would say were stereotypical 'type', western saddles etc, and I was there with my jumping saddle and WBxTB, looked a bit out a place!
Anyways me and my horse trust each other, and I am not scared of him, which helps and by the end of the 2 days I was jumping him in one of stupid rope halter things which was amazing, while the some of the others struggled as their horses just didn't respect them and although I was a 'parelli' novice I have worked with horse for quite a long time so know how to handle them etc.
Where I currently work we break horses in. I would say things are done very traditionally, though I have seen my boss do join up with her horse just for fun because she is natural horseman. She also got on a 3 year old of hers for the first time in headcoller and it was fine because it trusted her completely, and had done a lot of groundwork (which is basically parelli without all the carrot sticks etc, long reining etc working the horse from the ground will have the same effect!)
Basically, in the longest EVER post is that all you really need is common sense which seems to be lacking, an open mind and not get swept up with things!
Agree???
One 5 course meal coming for reading this!!
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HUH?? That doesn't make sense.
