Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Equine Clinicians Compete

During the clinic I attended several years ago Monty Roberts 
stressed that you end on a good note, get off and put the
horse away to "think about it"... sleep on it over night,
as opposed to "seeing if they can do it right again." 
The idea is for the horse to remember doing it the right 
way for the rest of the day and night.  This makes a lot 
of sense to me.

Personally I think Monty, Pat, John, Mark Rashid, clicker
training and others  have a lot of good information out 
there.  It's up to the  owner to open a good line of 
comunication with your horse and find what works best to 
achieve the results you are looking for.  For instance, 
I'm watching a Parrelli trainer here in Santa Fe work 
with the carrot stick.  Looks like it might work to teach 
the 'old TB not to spook at plastic bags.  Sometimes, the
horse just looks confused though.  Like the line of
communication isn't there yet or it got dropped.

Blue got some Parrelli training before I got him from Jackie
Bumgardener and I really appreciate that training.  It gave 
me a good base to work from.  Personally, I open my line
of communication with a horse using Monty's join-up.

Also, coming from Jackie, Blue was taught, worked and 
treated right and fairly... and only slightly spoiled.  
;-)  I've been working hard on increasing  the amount of spoiled rotten training he has.  :) :) :)  Right now he 
has the whole neighborhood trained to bring him carrots 
atleast once a day.

The thing that really gets to me is when one trainer or 
training "method" bad mouths another.  I have a total lack 
of respect for this bs as well as the people who believe a
line of crock like that.  The Parrelli trainer here that I
referred to took less than 10 minutes to start in on why
kinds of other training methods were bad in front of a 
group of interested horse lovers.  I'll watch what she does
that gets results but I have little respect for her as a
person or spokesperson.

I wonder if kids with poor sleeping environments (stress, 
fear) have more motor skill problems as adults?

Kathy Myers
in Santa Fe, NM

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