Never Ending Self Improvement

 

-->From Parelli Connect, Cici Browser , Dressage Summit notes:

• When horse gets tense or afraid, very important to then ask for something to change their focus.
• In transition from trot to walk, if too short in neck, can not balance and needs todribble into walk.
• Empathy Kindness Generosity
• Taking into account the mind and emotions to get excellence.
• Classical is lasting art that survives by deserving!
• Goals of training for rider- Promotion of the well being of the horse.
• Pay attention to the horses needs and not his wants!
• Unfold and maximize the horses potential.
• Systematic knowledge - gradual and systematic unfolding of the horse's ability
• A horse in perfect balance
• Maximize the horse's engagement shifting the weight to haunches and minimizing the weakness of the front end. 

  ADDRESS EVERYDAY

1. Balance and purity of gait with rider weight .
Teach horse to go forward not by pushing from behind but by lifting the weight
2. Longitudinal bending (assume the position of a bow...from hocks to bridle)
Gradually achieving dexterity right to left in spine. Be bent on the direction or the horse does not have his shock absorbers for his spine
This is therapeutic restoration
3. Fulfill the gymnastic performance of the horse. Extend, then don't run, then extend.
Lengthen and shorten stride.
A supple horse has to be emotionally clean.

Always teach...do not try, just do
In riding and training...there is no trying there is always teaching

Never punish a horse~ wipes out trust
Horses only know , can not synthesize
Horse is an Opportunistic, so ride opportunistically

Take your horse from Random nature to a monument of art.

The only way a prey animal can get rid of adrenaline is to run it off.
At trot if he speeds up, spiral in and ride stronger forward until he wants to
go slower...then spiral out...should he go faster,s piral in and ride him faster and more forward. Doing this 7 sessions in a row...he will not even think about running off. This trains in the relaxation, not tension.

• Remember 2 reins for communication 1 rein is for control.
• A buck a bolt and a rear is nothing more than a giant brace~Linda Parelli
• Horses that don't go forward are usually the ones that buck.
• The more you drive - the more you kill your aides~ Walter Zettl
• Managing the horses energy through time and space
• Not always does our process have to look like our product~ Pat Parelli

Ron Pyne, August 2011
"I don't do much with my horses, but what I do - I do with excellence."

Fawn Anderson Lesson, June 9, 2011
- motion not commotion

- relaxation before asking for more

- ask for more when horse ready, or horse will take leadership

Colt Starting 2011

"Let her Rest"

"Stay on this side of trouble"

 January 2011

Teleseminar, 2010 Q: How to help RBE who is unable to be confident with noisy materials (tarp, jackets)?

Pat: Don't worry about it. Don't be direct line. It's not about the.... It's not about becoming a robot, and able to never spook or be scared. 


 October 9, 2010 Fluidity
Move shoulders with horse's shoulders.
Pedal to move hips with horse.

September 30, 2010 Savvy Club DVD
Use partial disengagement to get relaxation.

August 24, 2010 Ron Pyne Clinic

- yo-yo game, phase 1, finger; phase 4, whole arm- head to tail friendly game
- circling game: speed up four phases; 180 behind shoulder, 90, 45, tailhead with increasing emphasis
- circling game: slow down: remember to pivot, 180, 90 45,


 Horseman's Apprentice: Episode 5 (website material)
 - Focus Circle: Keep eyes up, focus on something as go around circle, focus needs to be further ahead at trot and canter than at walk.
- Sitting up, rounded lower back at canter, or else horse cannot come off forehand.
- At canter, when horse snorts with foreward stride means is coming down on forehand, instead of rounding up.

 Savvy Club DVD 51: Tippi at Celebration
- Had watched the Tippi episode on the Celebration DVD, but this one is longer, so provides much more insight. It is fantastic to watch Tippi gain confidence. And PP's seat is just so elegant, I watch his riding to try and channel his abilities - and there are brief moments when it works.

Linda's Blog: Peeling Back the Onion

- A discussion of the experience with a horse that swung through the horsenalities like a whirling dervish. Lots to review here; very rich with expert commentary.

 Video: Freestyle level 2, Sylvia and Scamp; Lariat Puzzles

- backwards weave around poles, disengage hindquarters
- If she could jump this 4 year old arabian over barrels, then I can learn to do this with Z

 Horseman's Apprentice Episode 2

- have Z's ears toward me when on-line play, connecting mentally (physical will follow)