For those of you who missed the COTH trainwreck...

[is_it_tru]

I am so, so surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet! Get your reading glasses and some snacks.
http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?424362-Nick-Peronace-Dressage

Here's the major video. Can't figure out how to embed from Photobucket. Get the eye bleach out.

Comments

[miladyelizabeth]

Can you sum up? 50+ pages requires way more time than I have to give. His website is amusing enough that I remember seeing it on here in the past at some point.

[wastedrock]

Just watch the video, it's worth it.
Terribly worth it.

[bluelinegoddess]

I'll try to sum it up, but it is worth reading the defenses by him and his sock (well, not so much defenses as total freak outs):

He claims to be a GP level trainer, self taught, but then it's revealed the horse he claims was GP was in 1997, it was a schooling show, and he then gave up horses until last year so he could have a family.

His web site listed an address for lessons, the address came back to a boarding stable, owner of stable had never talked to him and had no idea why he was using her address.

His website claimed he was having a book published by a specific (named) publisher, when contacted, the publisher had no idea who he was.

His Facebook claimed he was going. To have an article published by a leading dressage magazine, magazine contacted and had never heard of him.

A video surfaces of his GP horse in 1997, this is the video linked above.

A more recent video surfaces and while he stopped the epileptic bouncing, he is a very average rider who should be taking lessons, not giving lessons.

He paid money to sponsor a trophy at

[miladyelizabeth]

Wow, that's pretty amazing! In all seriousness, sounds like the guy has some mental health problems and could benefit from medical attention, really. He could get someone killed pretending to know what he's doing like that. Sheesh.

[wastedrock]

GOOD LORD.

[skitty_kitty]

So in between taking over the world, over-throwing all shitty-ass drivers, we can now hang up our Grand Prix Dressage Trainer shingle, too. Sounds like a plan to me!

[bluelinegoddess]

Make sure you have a "Non-Warmblood" because that's apparently the best kind of schtick to get those unaware newbies in!

[wastedrock]

I had a Walker I did Eventing and Dressage with, I have a OTTB now, so I think I'm good to sucker people in!

[lostrealist_05]

What the hell is he doing? Humping the horse? I can't....

[bluelinegoddess]

The first page is enough to let me know that this gonna be good. *popcorn*

[madeyemads]

I only read the first three pages and I watched the video.

Yes the video is terrible.

But 51 pages? Seriously? He's not fucking Hitler. Some people need to seriously get out their and live their own lives rather than ripping others to shreds on internet forums. Does he look like a good trainer? No. Is that reason enough to rip the poor bloke to shreds permanently and publicly. No!!!!

Pathetic.

[suraineko]

I think it could have ended sooner if he didn't keep responding via his "student".

[bluelinegoddess]

So you missed where he claimed to be the trainer at a barn that never heard of him, then claimed to rent the arena at the barn (because he doesn't understand that they already said the never heard of him), claimed to be GP but has never shown, claimed to turn down a job overseas as a trainer from a farm that (wait for it) never heard of him, claimed to be writing a book for a publisher that (can you guess?) never heard of him...

Sorry to ruin your day, kellydressage. ;)

[skitty_kitty]

I dunno if the allusion to Mads being 'kellydressage' is a tongue-in-cheek joke or not, but if latter, she's not a sock puppet. faceless anon pic aside.

Back to ze topic at hand, woooooooow, that video, just wooooow. And the threads make me think a lot of that one NH dude trainer who blew up the LJ equestrian form a ways ago.

edited because me no spelly