okay, got it. I guess my mind is out of the gutter this early in the AM…coffee hour, no. Wine hour - yes.
Apparently, no matter the time of day, my mind stays in the gutter. It wasn’t the coattail comment that got me, it was the mustache one that got me thinking, “Bow chicka bow wow!” 
That isn’t a strictly parelli trait.
Being cheeky this morning 
The PP “team” competed in “opportunity” classes only. These classes do not require membership in USEF or USDF. I believe they just about had those classes to themselves.
Oh, and the Para rider was, I believe, the only one in her division. She already has accomplishments in the Para world. Doubt the PP’s have anything to do with her success.
You are absolutely correct! In one of the classes, there was someone not associated with the parellis–she took first place :lol:
Lauren Barwick had already gone to the para olympics before meeting the parelli’s, she was in Florida and met them there, they decided to sponsor her, which was a nice gesture :yes:, but there’s always the ‘alterior motive’ with them.:winkgrin:
I think I put a link about Lauren in my post
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IIRC PP rode a mule to a reserve championship in the late '70s or early '80s. To the best of my knowledge that’s the extent of his “show record.”
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I remember reading about him doing a “fun class” at a show that he placed well in. Was that it?
‘The things that often get rewarded in dressage these days, we’re trying to get them out of horses. All that tension–a lot of that we do quite differently and we ask, “What’s the ideal in a horse?” In the end, the goal is the same. We want to look great with lightness, exuberance and being able to do high level maneuvers, have absolute harmony and make it look invisible, but we don’t want to do it with a horse that’s emotionally frazzled because of it.’
This quote from LP I find beyond ironic, considering the present buzz.
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‘The things that often get rewarded in dressage these days, we’re trying to get them out of horses. All that tension–a lot of that we do quite differently and we ask, “What’s the ideal in a horse?” In the end, the goal is the same. We want to look great with lightness, exuberance and being able to do high level maneuvers, have absolute harmony and make it look invisible, but we don’t want to do it with a horse that’s emotionally frazzled because of it.’
This quote from LP I find beyond ironic, considering the present buzz.[/QUOTE]
So do I consider very strange that Pat Parelli was made HSUS “humane horseman of the year” last year, when this part of a video is an example of what he teaches and sells for others to do with horses and they think it is OK to treat horses like that, for some odd reasons of their own.:no:
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I remember reading about him doing a “fun class” at a show that he placed well in. Was that it?[/QUOTE]
Yep…it’s called the “Wild Bunch” and it’s people dressed in costume riding a reining pattern. It’s held at the Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno. I laughed my head off when I saw that quote by PP in some publication that he’d beaten all the top trainers at the RSBF on a mule. I was there that year…don’t know how he gets away with stuff like that. At least admit that you won the Wild Bunch fun class. Not the SBF itself.
Shoot, one year a guy came in on an ostrich. Seriously…
No kiddin’? Gosh, I’d love to see pictures of THAT!
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No kiddin’? Gosh, I’d love to see pictures of THAT![/QUOTE]
They used to have ostrich races at the old Indio show, too. They can run REALLY fast!
I wish I had photos…there may be something on Google…but this was back in the 70s. I might have to go look around just to get a good laugh today. :lol:
Yep…it’s called the “Wild Bunch” and it’s people dressed in costume riding a reining pattern. It’s held at the Snaffle Bit Futurity in Reno. I laughed my head off when I saw that quote by PP in some publication that he’d beaten all the top trainers at the RSBF on a mule. I was there that year…don’t know how he gets away with stuff like that. At least admit that you won the Wild Bunch fun class. Not the SBF itself.
Like they say…‘if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bs’. I’ve always said it, they haven’t done half of what they claim to be—don’t know how they got this far, basically lying their @sses off to people about their accomplishments. Now teaching their students how to claim their doing wonderful things, when in fact they’re not.:lol:
Unbelieveable
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Resurrecting this thread because I watched Parelli Horsemanship on RFD last night. And just had to share. 
LP was helping a woman whose horse (beeyoootiful grulla mare) would walk off when she mounted. Probably had other issues, too. (I tuned in a little late.)
First LP shimmed the saddle to raise the front because rider was leaning forward. Nothing wrong with that. Then they addressed the walking off. If horse moved away when rider started to mount, student was to stop mounting and bang the stirrup on the horse’s side. Repeatedly, as horse walked away. Hmmmm… OK.
But both times the student had to resort to banging, the horse wasn’t paying any attention to her in the first place – as in, horse was looking around to her right, as the rider mounted from the left. Why on earth wouldn’t you ask for the horse’s attention FIRST, before you ever put your foot in the stirrup? That would probably cure 99% of the tendency to walk off, then you don’t have to bang the horse with the stirrup.
But I digress …
Once rider is mounted, LP points out that the rider isn’t leaning forward any more, which is true. But her feet are in position to ride a La-Z-Boy, not a horse. I mean, they were waaaay forward, with her core collapsed, so every step the horse takes, rider is behind the motion.
Naturally, horse is just poking along, which apparently was one of the other problems that needed addressing. So LP has rider use the ends of the reins or mecate (can’t remember) to ask horse to go faster. Nothing wrong with that, but first put the rider in a decent position that invites the horse to go forward. If horse doesn’t step out after that, THEN give 'em a little whack. I mean, I thought NH was all about making the right thing easy, not teaching horse to tune out the rider’s position.
After that it was just walking around the ring, horse would wander to the right and LP would have the rider take her to the right. If horse wandered to the left, turn her to the left. The whole idea was to take her idea and make it yours. The mare never really did tune into the rider that I could see. Tolerated it all well, but that was about it.
At the end, LP announced that this was Part 1. In Part 2, she’ll show the student how to do walk/trot transitions and maybe even canter.
Stay tuned!!!
If horse wandered to the left, turn her to the left. The whole idea was to take her idea and make it yours.
wrong
What is ever so hard about stopping your horse from walking off enough times that they eventually get that they’re supposed to stay?
Lack of common sense?
Is the word “whoa” too advanced? Too cruel?
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Lack of common sense?[/QUOTE]
“Now, if only there was a way I could get him to stand still. Should I whisper to him? Pray to Zeus? Drink another beer? Why is life so hard?”
If you read the last bit in a whiny, 7 year old New York accent, not only do you get a little insight into my family, but it’s also that much funnier :lol:
As Dad would say…
Ignorance is it’s own reward.
Just thinking. What would LP do with any OTTB, since the jockeys mount while the horse is moving?
Bang the stirrup into them, and they’ll tell you how they feel.
Guess there is no sense of feeling the horse’s poll as you mount? Making sure the horse is well balanced and able to accept the rider’s weight?
