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Well, I for one appreciate LMH’s ability to think in a positive way and keep an open mind.
A friend of mine who is a great admirer of WAZ (since before the Parelli join-up occurred) got the CD of the clinic in Texas that WAZ did with the Parellis and another prominent reiner (Craig Thompson?) plus another dressage rider. For all of the nonsense that makes up the Parelli machine, Pat can do a thing or two with a horse, though I will admit he and Linda were much weaker in that demo than the other reiner guy, both in what they could get from their horses, and their ability to follow WAZ’s directions. But anyway–the thing that struck me in the CD was the pure, unadulterated joy that WAZ expressed when PP got something good from his horse. Toward the end, PP started showing off a bit, and you can hear WAZ in the background, just burbling with joy like a small child at the fusion of horse and rider that he was witnessing–regardless of the presence or absence of dressage qualities in the work.
That gives me hope that WAZ can see through the glitz and the nonsense, and still see the potential for good if some refinement and further correctness can be infiltrated into the Parelli program. From what LMH says, this is welcomed by the Parelli followers, which is good to hear.
Now, don’t y’all go bursting my rose-colored, idealistic bubble, ya hear?;)[/QUOTE]
I watched that same tape and agree with what you say.
Hoping not to be a downer, but in that one class in that one clinic, the part shown on that one tape looked also like WZ telling them to do this and that and, not much happening or getting accomplished corresponding to his explicit requests, eventually just let them ride around on their own strung out fashion, without saying much any more.
Now, I wonder why they didn’t show other times in their tape for sale, where more was being accomplished?
Maybe he thought they were already doing better than before, maybe impulsion was improved, straightness, a more balanced horse, better rider position?
It is hard to say what is going on from some minutes in time only from a whole clinic.
I got to see the two last runs of the World Ch AQHA reining, I think it was, on TV, last night.
The reserve ch horse was very smooth, correct and had a very impressive run.
He was at times almost fourbeating on his canter circles, but otherwise had beautiful lead changes truly coming from behind and moved round, forward and well balanced.
The winner, I hope it doesn’t become a new fad, was a peanut roller, head way too low, seemed to smell the ground some of the time and almost stumbled over his nose a time or two, had a better way of going generally than the other horse, but was stiff, resistent and overbent on his spins and flexed way too much on the backing, that was faster but not as fluid as the other horse.
He also didn’t really change leads uphill, but more falling into his changes.
I wonder why a seemingly less correct horse won over the other, when both are at the top and the best a judged discipline has to offer?
I see similarities there with what the PP system is and does.
We see, to us looking from the outside, odd things happening in it, some that basically seem incorrect, for what we know horses are and do.
We just really don’t know where they are going with them, but I am sure somewhere oddness makes sense to them.
Who knows, their way may some day be part of the standard way.
