Re: [RC] [RC] re: hobbling to saddle - Shelley Kerr
<learned early on with the first Parelli/Lyons type trainer
to lay down when she was through>
Why did she lay down? Or am I missing
something here?
what do horses gain out of RPing?
If done correctly, you gain the beginning stages of
trust from a horse. Most people don't know how to round pen
correctly and end up making the horse worse off than before.
I know people who RP every time they ride, for about 20 minutes
before hand, why?
I don't know. Round penning is just for the
initial beginning stage of training. Like I said before, if done
correctly, the need to continue round penning shouldn't be
necessary.
She was terrified of people in general when I bought her, so I'd
always been around Dressage and the barn I boarded at was into John
Lyons. They convinced me to let them "train" my horse that they could
fix her quicker... She ended up hating NH and I took about 6 months and
rebroke her slowly. She's a wonderful little mare who loves people now,
but all they did to her in her RP training was run her around the
RP
doesn't sound like they really knew what they
were doing or trying to do
until I rescued her from them after half an hour or so because
she wouldn't "join up".
You were probably right to do what you did.
Horses that have already been handled and been around people may not react
the same way a horse that hasn't been handled very much or not at all,
especially one that has been abused. A different approach to round
penning was probably needed to gain the respect and trust of the
horse.
To really be a NH means assessing the horse,
it's personality, what's it done, how it's been trained, confirmation, and
it's capabilities, then deciding what might be needed to improve the
horse. NH isn't always one specific type of training. John
Lyons (himself) is a good horseman but that's because he reads the horse
and then decides what to do next. If you can't read a horse it
doesn't matter what type of training technique you use, it's not going to
work.
Shelley
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