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I watched a little of the liberty “audition”. It was a horse doing tricks for treats. My horse does those things as well for treats and I don’t even have a carrot stick or a set of parelli dvds.
That’s trick training which is fine but it doesn’t have much to do with NH so called.[/QUOTE]
Watever anyone thinks of the PP themselves, we have to agree that much of what they do is fun and some innovative.
There is some to be critized in the way they do it, like the unnecessary picking at and rough handling in the name of “that is what horses do to each other”.
Still, anyone that tries and plays with their horses likes the chance to do so, on hand, riding and at liberty.
I would say that everyone of us that has been around horses any at all loves to have a horse that does tricks, has sold horses for me, just that the horse knew some basic tricks.
What I find objectionable is that they, until lately, didn’t have or seem to want to connect to conventional training and clearly lacked a technical understanding of what riding is.
They still do, but at least they are working with some trainers that do.
The rest of the fluff of their program, the horsenality and other is strange and the way so many of their followers become so close minded is sad.
What we have to keep in mind is that, short of abuse, what others do with their horses is up to them, we really should not deny them that right, any more than others should have the right to tell us what we need to do with our horses.
I really expected the PP system to start their own shows, judging all they do by their strange standards, maybe classes organized as their levels, class for level 1 students and so on.
Would have been fun and why not, it is all different enough from other we do with horses to become a discipline of their own.
