Flip Horsenalities and CALM DOWN! Way down... Parelli Patterns Notes Added

Guess which future Parelli Professional misread his horse? I will give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count! Goodness, I feel so pumped and sensitive. Odd verb usage, I know. I was watching one of my most dedicated students play with Bebe, then I went to correct something and then sat back down to watch and was shocked. Bebe was calm cool and collected with my quiet low energy student, but as soon as I took a hold of the rope he acted like he was going to explode quietly inside himself. Everyone say, "Hmm!". I guess being with Sundance and having to be such a dominant alpha mare, I have created a 'presence' of myself that is threatening. I have found Bebe, NOT physically (as in 'go' and 'whoa') but emotionally, is VERY sensitive to a persons energy and presence. I also noticed today that if Bebe gets into a higher gait, just for fun to kick up his heels and toss his head around and accidentally triggers some adrenaline it scares him and gets him REALLY right brained. But as soon as he stops, he is calm again. It's like a switch! A REALLY sensitive switch. Everyone say, "Hmm!". And you know me, after figuring this out I HAD to go play with him. After my student left and Bebe rested I got out there with the 45 foot line and lowweeerrrddd my energy waaaayyy down, and got Bebe out. I went to the safe arena, where he feels 'safe', prayed that God would show mercy, and maybe favor and started a medium to high energy session with low energy in myself. That session really taught me a lot about him, today taught me a lot about his inner horsenality and how horribly I misread him! Bebe is a RIGHT BRAINED INTROVERT! *gasp* Not Bebe! Not my little baby! I am SO excited! I am so happy he is a right brained introvert, now that I know his horsenality and now that I have found him out I can tinker, and mess, and twist and voila! Turn him into an amazing, right brained introverted horse. I have been thinking a while about getting a right brained horse and take him (or her) through the levels, just to have that under my belt and in my brain as a plus as a parelli professional. But now I have a right brained horse! He has always been here, and I have already brought him through level 2 and into level 3. The neatest thing is, he is a really sensitive horse. We can communicate really well with Phase 1 now, before I was screaming at him with my body like I did with Sundance. Used to, if I did not scream with my body, Sundance would give me the finger with his face. But Bebe just cowers in fear! So all I have to do with him is whisper. Fran, you are going to be happy to hear this! I got Bebe out on the 45 foot line today! One of the neatest things was when I had him way out on the circle, a horse fly went to bug Bebe and he started to trot... then he started to canter... then I stopped him because I needed to interrupt the pattern (not let him go RB). How sensitive!? VERY. And I LOVE it. Check out his horsenality, he is a 5 dotted RBI and a 4 dotted LBE. He is med/low spirited, and very sensitive. Of course I will mention Sundance, my love. We have been playing with our liberty the past couple days and he has done awesome, relationship changing things. He offered close contact canter, lead change and downward transitions. Mind we do not have a round pen, we have an arena with 2 ropes loose (Split 1/3 and 2/3, we have the 2/3). We have had so much fun, and are ready to check things off and move on. We did carrot stick only riding today, I say we have passed all the tasks in stage 1 and 2 and will be moving on. We can already do most of stage 3, bareback and bridless right now is our strong suit. We went outside of the arena and rode today for the first time without anything not even a savvy string on his head, we jogged to the lake and swam a little bit and loped to the barn. I am so proud of my partners! Starsky has been a joy to be with lately, he has really come around. I will be starting our level 1 riding soon, I am sure he will do wonderful with that big brain between his ears.




Parelli Patterns Notes and Ideas for Sundance - Online DVD

• Keep on improving the canter
• Start using 22 ft lines as driving reins
• Use barrels with 45 ft line and driving reins
• Use 2 barrels as figure eights and 4 barrels as serpentine
• Play with the PARELLI ball

Parelli Patterns General Notes - Online DVD

• Level 1 - 12 ft line
• Level 2 - 22ft line
• Level 3 - 45 ft line and 12 ft with excellence
• Level 4 - Two 22 ft lines as driving reins
• Touch down? Nose, Neck, Front feet then Back feet
• It's not about the _____ . It's about the relationship!
• Confidence and Curiosity then Play and Performance.
• A horse that can solve puzzles is a horse that can adapt.
• Never say Never, don't Always say Always and Usually say Usually.'
• Consistency, Patterns, Variety
• Variety = Spice of life.
• Horses are naturally sceptics, cowards, claustrophobics and panicaholics by nature in various degrees.
• Horses heirchy of importance - Safety, Comfort and Play.

Well, back to watching my Parelli Patterns. Savvy on!

"Officially" Starting Level 3 Liberty

I had been moseying with Liberty in Level 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTud9ECma0) but not in a specific Stage and not consistently. We are now ready to officially start our Level 3 Liberty and get serious about it! Sundance and I had our first official L3 Liberty session today, I almost cried. I was SO apprehensive, because I had set up some yellow rope to block off a certain side of the arena. That did not go well AT ALL in Level 2 about a year ago, he looked at the rope as a challenge. He used to get his "evil" hat on (which he used to ALWAYS have on) and took the rope on as a challenge, and of course a measly few ounces of rope had no chance against a pure evil 1,000 pound Left Brained Introvert. But today after warming up, he didn't even notice the rope! He treated it as a brick wall and kept his attention on Mom. His walk was concentrated on mother at close contact liberty, his attention was still totally on me at the trot too. Then, against Linda's word (I AM SO SORRY!) I went on, while it was good and send him out at the CANTER! (gasp) Wouldn't you know he did a perfect send, allow and bring back! While licking his lips. I cooled us down and went STRAIGHT to the barn to feed him his favorite num nums, almost crying... everything went so perfect! This Level 3 can seem easy, intimidating, motivating, perfection'ating', frustrating, cool, interesting at the same time. Sometimes I extremely dislike it with a passion, and sometimes I love it. I guess you'd call it a 'Love/Hate Relationship' and how fun it can be, but we all have to learn how to become emotionally fit. Yay for Emotional Fitness! Sundance and I are the best of friends, I think we both really are actual 'partners' a herd of two. And you know, it really feels good, it just feels right.

I am sure all of you are wondering about little Bebe! I have been using him a lot in lessons, he is such a wonderful teacher and comedian. I really enjoy teaching with him, and my students really seem to love him very much. Level 3 seems to be too hard core for him right now, I know I need to start back on our regular schedule but we kind of seem to be in a rut because he is not confident enough to get out there on that 45 foot line. I keep him right beside his herd, warm him up the way he needs to be, and his Level 1 and 2 are VERY good because he teaches them to students magnificently many times a week. So I am a little stuck, so I am giving him a little break to gain some confidence and then I will start back. If he still is the same way after some hard brain work, I will contact a Parelli Professional and maybe take him along with Sundance and I to the Jesse Peters clinic since we have a 3 hour lesson which may give us some time to work with Bebe. I am not giving up on him at ALL, just giving him a break and me some brain storming time while we teach together.

Trotting Demonstration

Here is our first video demo, I did not get to finish it because of the memory on the camera but will show it any way! Now you can see our new exercise we have been doing, everything went great except I didn't really get my feet in tune with his front feet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpqmmQ5V8pw

PLEASE COMMENT! It's my first presentation.

Hope you enjoy!