Parelli at the NEC.

At the beginning of August the adult members of the Wildriders Club got together to go and see Linda and Pat Parelli and their amazing horses do a two day exhibition at the NEC.

It was a truly amazing experience that made us feel like we are really right on track with our training methods. As you are probably aware we are very much in favour of natural horsemanship techniques and all our training methods that we have developed are based in horse psychology. We have learnt a lot in the three years that we have been training horses here and not least from the horses themselves. In fact when we learnt about the Parelli’s seven games we realised that our horses had already taught us the first three!

It was great comfort to hear Pat Parelli say things that we have already begun to see and do ourselves. For instance we have already recognised that lunging is not a great way of exercising or teaching a horse, that ground work is so important, nosebands are generally unnecessary, and if you can’t ride a horse in a snaffle - don’t ride it. Pat Parelli says that it has taken him several decades to get to the stage he is at. We can only thank our lucky stars that he has put all his amazing knowledge into nicely packaged DVD’s so that we can save ourselves that time! While we are sure that we would have got similar results in time, it has meant that by applying ourselves to his programme we have got a globally recognised institution behind us that benefits the horses we have now instead of just the ones we would have in thirty years.

It is our aim over time to qualify several adult Wildriders as Parelli Professionals so keep watching this space……………………

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