Mule
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He sounds extremely oddI took my horse to a different clinic to yours, I think it may have been 2015 though. I had liked the videos, but hated the clinic. It was very much all about Warwick Schiller, which is fair enough I guess, but I also thought it was to the detriment of the horse.
We were stood still in the cold for almost 2 hours, then suddenly they had to do fast turns and cantering, no warm up. One in particular got very distressed, and then came down with colic.
I was supposed to run at my horse a'flailing a whip to see if he was grounded or some such thing. He stood his ground as he and I had a good history, but then I was told that it was because he was shut down so Warwick took over and found that he could scare my horse if he crawled up to him. Not sure what that was about.
Hey, I am just a person, and I possibly just didn't get it, but also, hey, I was on a clinic to learn, so even if I got it all wrong, then maybe it was not explained properly.
He wanted me to do 2 hours of lungeing on a 12ft rope, at canter with quick changes of rein. Apparently that would change my horse. Yep, I thought, it would change him from sound to lame...
I got sick of the sound bites. EG, I was lying to him. ???? Oh, he said I dyed my hair, so I am a liar, as I was trying to trick him to think I was more beautiful or youthful than I was. Er, I don't dye my hair. OK, I was lying because I wore make up to make myself appear something I am not. Er, nope, no make up here. Just sun cream as I have rubbish skin. OK, so I wore a bra, so I was lying to him, trying to make my breasts look more appealing than they are really. Ha, yes, I am wearing a bra, but if he owned a set of boobs he would know that if I don't wear a bra the flimmping hurt if I run/walk fast/ride. It is a T shirt bra, not some lacy basque!!!
I was told how bad my horse was when we started (I thought he was quite good actually) and how much he had improved (I thought he was now confused). Of course, because I did not do the work, as in 2 hours of solid flipping round at canter on the lunge, that is why my horse had not improved...
So, on his videos I see a lot of things I like. I like how he thinks about stuff - on video. But I would never subject a horse of mine to that experience live at a clinic.
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