Re: Pony prices and training...Trish & pretty David

[PLOUGH1@ix.netcom.com (KIMBERLY PRICE)]

Trish,

Did you go through the roundpen training with David,...I mean, really 
go through it?

It is the basis for all additional level work.  John L. doesn’t really 
cover anymore than the basics, but you cannot skip the roundpen 
training or what it means.  I think he now has a dressage method, but I 
havn't read it.

But the roundpen lessons include: 1. directing David's rate of speed 
and turns in the roundpen.  2.  directing which way he turns (toward 
the fence or to you).  3) follows your cues in the roundpen w/total 
attention to you but means it.

It wouldn’t seem these beginning steps are very important to spooking, 
but they really are, and teaching the reaction to spooking comes after 
the roundpen lesson is very well learned and understood by all parties.

It didn’t click as much with me until I saw a demonstration, and I 
understood the reasoning behind it.  But when you say it didn’t really 
work with you on David’s back, this is what clicked in my brain to ask.

Kimberly