Excuse me, I posted the very informative video link to a very serious trainer who scores 40s in his 4th level tests, is ready for Grand Prix showing, and rehabilitates OTTBs in his spare time while teaching Western riders to do The Dressage. How dare you, I am super insulted that you wouldn’t consider that helpful.
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Here is a vid of rehabilitating an OTTB once again by the Maestro. My guess is this horse has been in training for some time. The ones I have re-started required 3 to 4 months of consistent training on improving contact, relaxation and finding rhythm.
https://www.facebook.com/nickperonacedressage/videos/150887038873241/
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160 views. I wonder how many of those were COTHers? 
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Rehabilitating?
Did he have a substance abuse problem? Incarcerated?
One really does wonder about the language tis guy uses…
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My thought too
Nick?
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Didnt read all of this…what are you ranting about? Collecting grease from restaurants for rescues…,what? French fry and fried chicken grease for horses?
The Cavalry horsemanship manual is still around but they were not riding a full 4th level test in the time frame you boast of, or ever, the skills were useful on the battlefield. And they rode the horse under strict direction, didn’t watch videos. Also werent developing horses for a lifetime of use but to serve in battle as a really big target. They were the trucks of their time kept maintained while they worked, discarded when they broke, destroyed when machines took over and had a higher fatality rate then their riders. Might want to get rid of the rose colored glasses on that.
I’m putting on my tin foil hat, things are getting weird over here. Don’t know about this whole thread.
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If they didn’t have a problem before the ride, they certainly needed something to take the edge off after.
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Do you know if western dressage riders do THE Dressage, or is it just dressage…I’d hate to be missing out
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It’s THE Dressage. All previous editions/interpretations are obsolete and ineffective. Ask Master Pee.
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For those who do not do Facebook, Nick has the video up on his youtube channel 
Why does the commentary sound like I’m watching a National Geographic special on the life of a groundhog in the wild?
Why does the commentary sound like I’m watching a National Geographic special on the life of a groundhog in the wild?
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“I don’t have to do this right you know. I could just throw a curve bit on, carry a rubber tube on my belt and get my way by force, which is what most riders do (don’t even try to argue that). I actually want to do this right, but you restricting information is not going to stop people buying horses and manhandling them into submission like we’ve all seen at public riding arenas. Yes, I expect information to be given away for free, for the sole fact that more people riding correctly means less horses being beat with rubber tubes to make them turn.”
LOL, must not be from New England because this I have not seen in the dressage world around my area. What exactly is a rubber tube?
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Oh…the humanity…the horrors of the curve bit…this could be fun…bit I’ll keep my tin foil hat on lest they infiltrate my mind…
Well , perhaps the salvaged restaurant French Fry and Fried Chicken grease meant to save the lives of rescues can be applied to the rubber tube to lessen its effect? I don’t see why not.
But seriously folks…this could be on track, pun intended, to be the first really entertaining train wreck we’ve had in a loooong time.
Anybody else remember when the crazy Canucks used to crawl out of their igloos on American Thanksgiving to do some sled dog harness yanking? With the weather heading into the cooler this coming weekend, are we in for some cold weather entertainment in the best CLOTH traditions? It’s a week early but don’t know if reading a calendar is a high point of the OT…Errr…OPs… skill set
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With a proper Attenborough narration this would have to count as an educational video:
We’ve arrived at the arena just in time to spy what appears to be a very ordinary man … upon a very ordinary horse.
The stooped posture and the mincing walk, however, may not evince the greatness of what we are about to witness … for this man is anything but ordinary… And his steed is no less than a terrestrial animal evolved through centuries of careful selection … to take flight!
Before us unfolds the rehabilitation of the ex … race … horse! This will not be an easy task, by any stretch of the imagination.
Immediately we observe all of the hallmarks of a dressage maestro. The downward gaze … the hands, positioned gingerly near his nethers … the exquisitely rounded shoulders … knuckles brushing the pommel as a trot commences. We are in for a special treat! These aids are about to come alive with motion!
But there’s a problem. For man and beast are islands … separated by a great ocean of communication. A hand, moved toward the hip, asks in the language of dressage mastery for the noble equus to relax the back and soften his jaw. But hark! What does our equine friend hear … through the din of reins that beat gently against his neck as they are pulled taut, and then slack? We may never be certain. But a mouth agape and a toss of the head suggest that the chasm of communication has not … yet … been bridged.
The maestro is confident in a credo of ‘persistence beats resistance’ … and so they carry on. Man committed to an attempt at rehab. And horse, obediently trotting forth … but with his head wagging gently as if to say: No! No! No!
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I’m with whoever said the OP can’t possibly be a Nick alter due to the lack of spelling/grammar errors and hyperbole that are the hallmarks of Nick & Co.
That, and the tone of the OP’s posts make me think he/she isn’t hailing from North America.
I was willing to give this person a little slack at first, because YES, there are a lot of barns (or yards, if my hunch is correct) who will jump at the chance for free labo(u)r and take advantage of the horse-mad under the guise of “working student”. I can certainly see how such experience might make one leery of trying that route again. But way too much attitude from OP…
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:lol: I couldn’t help but start reading this in an accent to myself. Thank you for the entertaining commentary!
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You clearly haven’t been listening to the Pero-nacey videos at all, or you would know its DUR-sahge. Get it right and pay attention.
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Yes, I still want to know how you beat a horse with a rubber tube to make him turn. Okay, lets break this down. You have a rubber tube. For argument’s sake, lets say its the inner tube to a bicycle. That’s something that’s a tube, and its pretty much rubber. It could be an old Tyre tube, but its not easy to get a hold of those any more, its probably a bicycle tube, everyone has one of those in the garage somewhere.
OK. So you have a rubber tube, and you are confidently riding your horse around and around your ring, and BAM! Your horse, and not for the first time, runs straight into the end rails of the ring, after coming down the long side, because you just can turn him. So out comes the rubber tube. Try it again. Trotting down the long side of the ring, you see the end of the ring rails looming before you, getting closer, and you just know your horse is going to run into them yet again because he just won’t turn, but this time you have the rubber tube with you. Step into one end of the tire with your outside toe. You don’t have to take your foot out of the stirrup, just find the loop of the tire with your toe. Stretch the rest of the tire up with your outside hand, and when it is stretched real good, transfer it to your inside hand, pulling the tire tight across your horse’s withers. Right when he’s just about to run into the end of the ring’s rails, tip up your toe and let the bicycle tube snap up to your hand. You have to be fast and do it right before he runs into the rails. If he runs into the rails first, its no good, you’re too late. Let the bicycle tube snap up to your hand, and this will compell your horse to move away from the snapping tube, much like a rubber band, and Viola! Your horse has moved away from the snap of the tube and made the turn. If he doesn’t, attache the bicycle tube to the bit on the inside, and use this to pull your horse around so he turns at the correct time. If this doesn’t work, beat the horse with the rubber tube, it is, in the end, what so many people resort to.
Viola!
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