Noah, Now Use some Human Physcology, and think about it, Mother Nature is working against us, Or I should say we are working against her. THINK if you were going to Train and Get ahad of the game, you would start using Hog Phsycology, figure out how to whisper to the hogs, I believe that what Pat would do, as that would be the way to understand it naturally. As now you are thinking of of to use one animal against another in an unatural way, not for survival or coexistance but as a "Control method" and thats not natural thats human.
Had to re-read that to get it, sorry Krystal! You have studied your Parelli, haven't you?
I, however, have been privvy to what really goes on "behind the barn"... where the "real" training goes down. "Real" does not really sell. Just as people don't want to know where their hamburger comes from, neither do they want to know how Rugged Lark became the super horse that he is... It doesn't just "magically" appear, wrapped in celophane at walmart.... just as Lark wasn't "magically" trained to be what he is by Lynn Palm...
What you point out is where Mr. Parelli and myself differed, and ultimately, came to an impass... again, it was not pretty...
I used to be MUCH more aggressive in my younger days... was quick to take the lead if you know what I mean.... I became aggrevated in Parelli's "passive" ways when i knew that he used much more "aggressive" techniques on his own horses... and I saw fit to demonstrate this on my own to the masses.... wasn't long and there was a split in the ranks... those that had gone to him, now asked me... "me" in my "vast" equine experience of all of 3yrs...
... (I was waaay too big for my britches...)
I've always been a quick student, and very good at finding what works...
On another man's ranch, with "his" students now looking to some 19yo punk for advice did not rest well obviously... and so there was the break....
I was asked to return when "submissive" lol... let's just say that never happened...
Fact of the matter is, what he taught me, I took what I wanted... which is how to train an animal with utmost efficiency... Sometimes that requires not being "completely natural" as defined by the public... as defined by nature, however, there are no rules
