WHAT.

[lifeishorses]

WHAT. THE. DUCK.

http://www.piafferevealed.com/indexenglish.html

Piaffe is achieved by training a horse up through the levels of dressage with flexion, contact and collection, NOT BY TYING IT BETWEEN TWO DAMN POSTS!

Now its gone from a$$hats in their backyards to polished smooth-talkers making DVDs and advertising on FACEBOOK. 
Do I sound like I'm

Comments

[skitty_kitty]

Spanish Riding School uses pillars to train piaffe, and I think a few of the other classic schools do as well. Haven't watched the vid to make any comment about this program, but pillars aren't a new thing.

[lifeishorses]

Alright, maybe so, but novices + easily abused techniques = nothing to the horse's benefit.

[vtgypsy]

This.

[closedcurtains]

I agree. I can't look at the link now but nothing in the paragraph OP posted is incorrect.

[re_vised]

What the actual fuck?

Yeah, the piaffe is just so easy and basic... my three year old can do it already! ::eye roll::

[ferretgirl2]

"Easy for the Horse" "Low Impact on the joints of the horse" ????!!!! Ummm.........

And what is "Safer than riding, especially if you ride alone" supposed to mean? That making your horse jog in place (as it's not a real piaffe as far as I can tell, reminds me too of the "dancing horses", whether you use pillars or not.) is safer then say, trail riding, well duh? But it would get boring really quick I think.

[maroonostrich]

What the everloving f*** are they on about there?!

[nobody9109]

As soon as I saw the video I was instantly reminded of charro.

[snippety_bitch]

This.