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Hey, are you boarding at the same place I am?  We're seeing the same thing.  Yeah no kiddin', I had a Parelli Level 3 person wiggle her finger at my non-Parelli horse for 5 minutes.  And she ain't the only one in the club that I see doing silly stuff like that with no results.  I think that's why Parelli gets a bad rap from some people - the misinterpretation of what an effective technique is.   I finally told her to quit because my mare had no clue what she was being asked to do!  She just stared at her like she was a nutcase or somethin'.  Drako will get it, because he's the reason I do Parelli.

 

This same person wanted to borrow my mare at one of our camping events.  She let Beamer drag her around the camp doing the "mosey" and then decided that my mare had too much energy for her to ride.  I was just laughing because Beamer is actually pretty easy to ride, you just have to be clear that you're in charge with her.  Since Beamer was in charge that morning, this person didn't have a chance!  Someone else rode her that day and wanted to steal Beamer from me.

 

Caisson sounds like he has a lot of play drive, like Drako does.  I swear Drako does stuff just to drive me crazy sometimes, just for fun.

 

K.

 

 

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Elizabeth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I had to laugh.  There is a lady at my ranch that I'm pretty sure uses Parelli (or thinks she is), and I've seen her crouching in the center of the round pen - waiting - for something - while the horse is standing there looking at her.  I dunno ... if I can't figure out what she wants, I'm not sure the horse can, either...

I can also identify with some of the more dramatic stuff.  Normally, Caisson will move off on the circle when I point, and raise my dressage whip with a flag on it.  However, if he has a lot of pent-up energy, he won't.  He will "play" me too, because he wants an excuse to bolt madly around.  He knows from past experience that if he refuses to move off, I'll get more energetic with the flag, and at some point it will be enough for him to "spook", kick, buck and run...  Once he gets that out of his system, he goes back to moving off when I point.  :)

On Oct 21, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Kathy Mayeda wrote:

... and it does look a lot more dramatic than the usual finger-wiggling - but you correct with the same amount of intent and force that the horse is applying the wrong answer.  Some of the Parelli people would be critical of my reactions because they mostly deal with quiet QH's.

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