OMG YOU GUYZ i have just learnt how to embed video. i posted this yesterday & didn't think it worked for some reason, but beybladesabre managed to see it
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I know nothing really about parelli, but im wondering why do you tap the stick on the ground? Why is it done as well as shaking the rope? And is there a way you can lighten it?
Fair enough if you were both tired or having a bad day or he wasnt listening to you, but what your aiming for (well this is what most people are aiming for in most disiplines, dont know about parelli) is lightness and invisibilty.
Now im being very picky here and i probably shouldnt be because i know nothing about your disipline, but i just thought id point it out. And its a subtle thing, its not like what your doing is hurting him or it looks ridiculous, i just spend too much time around Colleen Kelly/Mendez brothers who scream "saw it!!" even if my legs move a teeny tiny bit.
good questions, and ur absolutely right. it should be very subtle - he was totally walking thru me at the end - i had very low energy (from being tired) hence the reasonably vigorous rope shaking and the little chicken dance/body block at the end to keep him out of my space. to the right (offside) is his 'less responsive' side too. he is sensitive enough to respond to the very slightest of movements in the rope, so when he didn't respond by me driving his ass around (tapping the stick on the ground) i had to remind him i was there with some phase 1 & 2 rope movement. probably a bit higher, but although there was a bit of energy in the rope itself, not hardly anything coming from me - that's what it felt like anyway. TBH the way he ran thru me at the end needed A LOT more energy from me *once* rather than the pissweak effort you saw. if i'd put my foot down earlier he would be "RIGHT, YES MA'AM!" as soon as i asked.
p.s. the rope shaking from me in that vid is akin to saying, "i've told you once, i've told you a thousand times!"... just noise. hence he was walking thru. i should have backed it up A LOT more with energy from my guts & he would have paid attention.
Didn't look bad right up until the last turn! I could tell you were tired and you kind of reverted to a weak sort of signal, rather than a super-assertive one. Your horse, I think, responded accordingly haha. He is a cutie though. :D I wish my horse were . . . I dunno, horse-like enough to buy into this stuff. She's too much like a big dog - a lot of the training I have to do with her stems mostly from dog obedience rather than natural horsemanship. >.< Whatever, most of the time it works hahaha. Maybe I'll start taking her to puppy classes with my dog. :P
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I know nothing really about parelli, but im wondering why do you tap the stick on the ground? Why is it done as well as shaking the rope?
And is there a way you can lighten it?
Fair enough if you were both tired or having a bad day or he wasnt listening to you, but what your aiming for (well this is what most people are aiming for in most disiplines, dont know about parelli) is lightness and invisibilty.
Now im being very picky here and i probably shouldnt be because i know nothing about your disipline, but i just thought id point it out.
And its a subtle thing, its not like what your doing is hurting him or it looks ridiculous, i just spend too much time around Colleen Kelly/Mendez brothers who scream "saw it!!" even if my legs move a teeny tiny bit.
Oh and his coat looks really lovely and shiny!
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