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<<Have you ever watched any of the “instructional” videos the Parelli system sells?
Ever seen the Barney video, showing how to calm and regain control of a stirred up horse, the one teaching how to clunk properly with the snap on the bottom of their halter on a hitching rail, then on a grey arabian’s head and so on?
I think if you had, you would not be saying “they are just different and people don’t like different”. >>
Except that is not what I said.
My comments on NH are broader than the Parelli brand of it. As others have pointed out the NH label is eschewed by many who may be doing things regarded as NH. But NH may have become a rather perjorative label, never mind the practices behind it. Parelli is one thing, all of NH is perhaps another.
But there is a particular derision about NH … in whatever stripe.
There are equally objectionable practices in video by hunter/jumper people… NH brings a particular reaction.
And if you will read my post, you will see that I acknowledge problems in the extreme approaches of any riding discipline-- those who drink the koolaid wherever it is being served.[/QUOTE]
That is true, there can be objectionable in all we do, but I would say, the basics tend to be solid in most “other” disciplines.
The basic roughness in the Parelli system I am familiar with, over decades and maybe some of that also in other NH brands of basics, not so much.
As they say, as long as it is not outright abuse, but a bit short on training common sense, all we can say is, different strokes and all that …
