Fwd: [Parelli Central Blog] Loving, Hating and Losing My 45-foot Line

Hana Hosking

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From: Parelli Central <admin@parelli.com>
Date: 4 November 2011 10:02:07 AM NZDT
To: hrhosking@gmail.com
Subject: [Parelli Central Blog] Loving, Hating and Losing My 45-foot Line
Reply-To: Parelli Central <admin@parelli.com>

Parelli Central Blog has just posted a new entry that we hope you'll find
interesting to read.

'Loving, Hating and Losing My 45-foot Line' by Guest, Jolene McDowell

Here's a short excerpt:
"I really, truly hate my 45-foot Line.  Well...make that "hated."

There's just so much of it. I avoided  using it whenever I could, and  I came
up with plenty of excellent reasons: "The arena wasn't big enough." "The rope
collected the wet sand from the arena and got too heavy."  "Markie, my horse,
[...]"

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http://central.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com/2011/11/loving-hating-and-losing-my-45-foot-line/

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Horse Training Games - the Porcupine Game

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Hana Hosking

Prey, prisoner or partner.

I wasn't planning on playing with my horses but when I went up to find a broom in the barn both horses were laying down in the paddock. I couldn't resist going in and seeing if I could lay down with them. I remembered to not be direct line and predatory so walked purposefully and zig zagged until I was about 12" away and laid down with Buzz. I offered the horsemans handshake but he declined. Which was ok. His ears were constantly twitching. He then laid his head down in the grass but was up again I think because one of the chickens laid an egg and was crowing about it. After a coup,e of minutes he put his head down into the grass and closed his eyes. I made the mistake of touching his nose and he really did not like this by moving quite suddenly away. I did this several times. What a dingbat HE DID NOT GIVE ME PERMISSION. Eventually he got up and moved away and I went about my chores. Cool that he did not get up when I approached.

Sharon Week 3

• Is my horse acting like a partner?
• Am I acting like a partner?
• Am I making a game out of it or just doing something?
• Is my horse confident or unconfident?
• What game am I playing, friendly game, follow a feel, or follow a feeling?
• Am I making the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult?
• Am I asking too much/not enough?
• Am I setting my horse up for success?

When we play the games in level one, we are doing it to be safe. When playing in level two our focus is more on having fun. When we move to level three and four we tend to become more task orientated and may find that our horses start having trouble. Ask ourselves the questions above when playing with our horse, and it will help keep us advancing and developing communication with our horses instead of becoming too direct line.

Sharon's week 2

• The porcupine game – follow a feel.
• The Driving game – follow a feeling.
• Play with your horse online as if you are playing at liberty. Play with your horse at liberty as if you were playing online.
• Play with positive patterns online so you will have positive patterns at liberty.
• Saddle for the first time like it’s the 1,000th time. Saddle for the 1,000th time like it’s the first time.
• Carrot stick riding is the bridge from riding with reins to riding without reins.
• If you can’t play a game with your horse at 12ft and you move further away, you’re no longer being effective, you’re just playing the friendly game. (wow!!!)
• Drive a draw need to be equal, If you have too much draw it will kill your drive, if you have too much drive it will kill your draw.
• Try to say “Oh Boy” instead of “Oh No” and act like a partner.
• If your horse doesn’t respect your carrot stick in Freestyle, it’s not going to be good at Liberty.
• Trailer loading – Don’t ask a trying horse to try harder, you’ll break the try.

Sharon's Fast Track Experience

From Sharon's Blog:
Do you just saddle your horse or do you saddle with savvy?
Do you put a bridle on your horse or does your horse seek the bit?
Do you just do the seven games or do you play the seven games?

A Spooked Horse in Windy Situations | Horse Training Article | Parelli Natural Horsemanship

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Hana Hosking