It was never truly about the riding. I doubt he has any real intrinsic motivation to ride just for the pleasure of it. He rides, or at least claims to, in order to access social approval and attention. He only rides so he can say he does.
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I often thought it was an obscure enough sport that he thought he could make claims of superiority enough to fool non horse people like his family, and look like an achiever, maybe even run cons on beginner horse people and make money. I figured it wasnât the love of horses per se; kids who boarded where he kept Chevy said he rarely showed up for his lessons; he didnât even show up for his recent horse all winter, that last winter he had her, at least not to ride, and that included horses he had been hired to train (in exchange for reduced board). Just didnât show up. He doesnât like work, and is after accolades and attention more than love of horses.
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I had a red Hippity Hop, and I am pretty sure I never looked like that when riding it. Watching him on Chevy is more like watching some grotesque soft porn that makes you want to bleach your eye balls out!
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Uck. I feel for you. I searched their vids and the first/most recent one was of the rider pictured up-thread. She makes Linda Parelli look like Charlotte. Of course it would help if her saddle was not 14 sizes too small.
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I have been re-reading the MyFishTank.net forum that Nick posted in years ago. Here is an excellent thread in which Nick asks the other members to take a look at his new web site for Enterprise Steaks. He gets a bit upset when they start talking aboout copyrights, lolol.
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15 years later he still writes and behaves like a poorly thought-out trash-talking punk caricature of a bad ass.
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Some parts of that meat thread sound very familar. Copied from a Jaws69 post:
PS: And for the record, I was on here minding my own. Anyone can see how the posting started. I didnt attack anyone, nor was I rude. Next thing I know Waam, Im being picked on by you two!!
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Wow, that was freaky and a bit scary to see how he went from neutral to flipping out in no time flat (to put it into NP language: his head was exploding from free advice kindly offered). And zero surprise that the person he had a go at was a woman, followed by less than zero surprise he referred to her as a âladyâ in derisive quotes.
The two takeaways are: what would be the root cause of someone being this hair-trigger aggressive; and how does a functioning adult have writing/spelling skills that are that bad?
To that last point, I ask this as a card-carrying dyslexic, so Iâm not unaware or unsympathetic re: these challenges. But his stuff is beyond. Simple words like comfort misspelled - not typos, consistently misspelled.
And any bets on how many of those glowing reviews came from actual people who werenât NP?
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Particularly as they used misspellings that NP has a history of misspelling then and now.
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Oh. My. God. I havenât read that before.
That was 2006. The exact same issues that he had in 2014 and that he has now. I suspect heâs been freakishly insecure his entire life. Interestingly, all was OK when people were pointing out his spelling errors and then he freaked out when someone pointed out he took a food picture from someone elseâs website and that is copyright infringement. So he can laugh about his copious spelling errors on his business website but freaks out when someone warns him of a potential legal issue when stealing other peoplesâ food pictures to sell his product on the same thread. You would THINK he would thank them for pointing that out but he lashes out at them instead.
There is such a pattern in this manâs life.
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Spelling errors donât potentially out anyone as a scam artist
Pointing out the stolen photos outs him for misrepresenting someone elseâs product as his own (presumably he was trying to make his own product seem higher-end than it really was).
Sound familiar?
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Yep!
He stole someoneâs logo for his dressage training âbusinessâ and had shirts and a fleece made with that horse head on it. Canât recall - whose was it?
He also stole the watermarked pictures of himself from his rated dressage shows and pitched a fit when told they werenât his to post everywhere, hence the watermarks.
But he threatens to sue anyone posting excerpts from that Pulitzer candidate book of his. Because his property (I canât call it âintellectual propertyâ for obvious reasons) is special and protected and no-touchy. For no other reason than itâs his.
What an upstanding citizen. Exactly the kind of person we should all be emulating. /sarcasm
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The stolen picture would also not be the product he was selling, so thatâs shading towards fraudulent advertising.
The watermark thing was another non-adulting moment: he seemed not to be capable of comprehending that those pictures were taken in public at an event for which he signed a standard waiver with his entry. He was honestly putting forth the idea that the show photographer hadnât gotten his permission to take them (um, yes, she had gotten express permission from every entrant who signed up). It was so bizarre. How does an adult fail to understand something this simple and fundamental about participating in an event in a public space?
That âI can take/use other peopleâs stuff but if someone legit pays for my book and shares any of it IâLL SUE!! CHECK YOUR INBOX!! YOUâVE BEEN SEVERED!â is so typical of that crowd. My right to do anything I want is sacred; anyone elseâs rights are merely nice to have, but not my concern. I never understood why they called the other side âsnowflakesâ when they meltdown so spectacularly at the drop of a hat!! I mean he goes from lighthearted discussion of his mangled text to chucking a full-on tantrum within the space of a single post.
Scary stuffâŠ
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Donât you love how he feels so entitled to everything? He seems to equate school kids making copies of pictures from the library for their book reports with stealing professionally shot images from someone elseâs website.
And then when heâs called out on ethical and legal issues, he wants to take the discussions to a PM. He abhors public humiliation, even when itâs of his own doing. Plus, in PMs he can verbally threaten people with impunity. And supposedly we are the bullies. 
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Really good point. Heâs able to fake a cheerful, positive public persona, but uses PMs, emails, phone calls, and even turning up with at threatening posse at peopleâs [womenâs] homes to intimidate and attempt to silence anyone who doesnât buy his schtick hook, line, and sinker. That kind of stuff is WAY more indicative of a bully than is publicly posting in opposition to provable lies. But itâs like a crybully: he who cries bully first gets to play the victim. Really weak stuff, all around. Itâd be laughable if he wasnât deceiving people and threatening women IRL.
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What public figure emulated by the maestro also likes to project by accusing others of the exact thing he himself is doing?
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Oh, please, letâs not go there. One is enough.
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Joseph Goebbles?
Oh! You mean the more recent one. 
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