cp1980
Well-Known Member
I know someone who trained their pony using Parelli. The pony is now a little star, but I am told that he used to be an absolute [****]. Im fairly confident that this person used Parellis system to train their pony effectively and that it has produced a good result. To an extent, the general principles of Parelli-based training are hard to disagree with.
However, I am now of the opinion that Pat and Linda Parelli have too much in common with Gillian McKeith, the poo-poking lifestyle nutritionist.
The essence of what they are saying is difficult to disagree with. In the case of Parelli it is train your horse systematically and with patience, using a consistent set of processes that the horse can understand and assimilate without blowing its confidence or trust. In the case of McKeith its to stop being such a big fat pudding, lay off the burgers and cakes and start eating fruit and veg (something that your friendly GP has been advocating for much longer than this strange woman has been around).
Both Parelli and McKeith deem it necessary to market their advice for commercial gain. Nothing wrong with that. However, both try to be overly-scientific in attempt to seem more credible, trustworthy or even prophetic. Which is at best patronising, and at worse could be considered slick marketing verging on the dishonest (specifically in the case of McKeith and her scientific credentials see below)
Mrs Gillian McKeith took the rather extreme step of buying a fake PhD off the internet. Thankfully, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint about this and she is now barred from using the style Dr Gillian McKeith PdD on her branded snake oil and other bunkum health food shop tat. She loves to don the white coat and poke around with peoples turds. But this is pure theatre or ritual. Its all to give the impression that what she is telling you is coming from an expert.
If you are daft enough to fall for this kind of charade, to pay money for her advice or to buy her products then you are probably daft enough to pay hundreds of pounds a year to take reasonably good and useful (but over-marketed) information from a successful horse trainer who puts on some very entertaining demonstrations.
I used to admire what the Parellis do, but Ive become so tired of the near cult-like approach that participants are expected to follow, the slick marketing of their products and all the silly gimmicks and psudo-science that seems to be put forward ahead of the actual instruction. Its sad that all this OTT bullshit is detracting from the good stuff that Im sure the so-called alternative horse training community wanted to advocate in the first place.
However, I am now of the opinion that Pat and Linda Parelli have too much in common with Gillian McKeith, the poo-poking lifestyle nutritionist.
The essence of what they are saying is difficult to disagree with. In the case of Parelli it is train your horse systematically and with patience, using a consistent set of processes that the horse can understand and assimilate without blowing its confidence or trust. In the case of McKeith its to stop being such a big fat pudding, lay off the burgers and cakes and start eating fruit and veg (something that your friendly GP has been advocating for much longer than this strange woman has been around).
Both Parelli and McKeith deem it necessary to market their advice for commercial gain. Nothing wrong with that. However, both try to be overly-scientific in attempt to seem more credible, trustworthy or even prophetic. Which is at best patronising, and at worse could be considered slick marketing verging on the dishonest (specifically in the case of McKeith and her scientific credentials see below)
Mrs Gillian McKeith took the rather extreme step of buying a fake PhD off the internet. Thankfully, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint about this and she is now barred from using the style Dr Gillian McKeith PdD on her branded snake oil and other bunkum health food shop tat. She loves to don the white coat and poke around with peoples turds. But this is pure theatre or ritual. Its all to give the impression that what she is telling you is coming from an expert.
If you are daft enough to fall for this kind of charade, to pay money for her advice or to buy her products then you are probably daft enough to pay hundreds of pounds a year to take reasonably good and useful (but over-marketed) information from a successful horse trainer who puts on some very entertaining demonstrations.
I used to admire what the Parellis do, but Ive become so tired of the near cult-like approach that participants are expected to follow, the slick marketing of their products and all the silly gimmicks and psudo-science that seems to be put forward ahead of the actual instruction. Its sad that all this OTT bullshit is detracting from the good stuff that Im sure the so-called alternative horse training community wanted to advocate in the first place.
