At 18:59:07 on 18.05.10, Fiorano wrote:
Hello everyone. I'm new here and just wondered if anyone out there can give me a little bit of advice. I have been doing Parelli for about a year with my Welshie. He, and me, have really come so far. He is a left brain introvert and therefore responds to the 'what's in it for me?' train of thought. However I now have a little mare who is a right brain extrovert and I'm struggling at the very basic level of the games. She is very over-reactive to the carrot stick and savvy string; so much so that I can't even throw the rope over her back. Any tips would be gratefully received. Thanks.

At 22:41:30 on 19.05.10, NMH wrote:
I am new to Parelli! So I may be talking through my hat at you! But I have had a RBE & I know what a challenge they can be. I think it might be a subtle balance - between getting her used to a very low level of Friendly, ie string flopping onto her shoulder, not over her back yet; & on the other hand upping your energy to hers-plus-some when she tries to walk over you, so you curb her hysteria & she has to respect you, especially your space. Although RBEs have genuine confidence issues, they also USE their reactiveness against you, & it's a fine line between gaining trust & challenging their desire to move. Reward, by relaxation, every moment of tolerance to Friendly Game, but also expect consistency- if she's tolerated something before she's being hysterical if she has a hyssie fit about it next time, so you have to keep going with high energy yourself until she gives you that inch of relaxation. Be interested to know how you get on!!

At 09:14:37 on 20.05.10, Fiorano wrote:
Thanks NME, for your response. I think a lot of my problem is my enery level. My LBI needed lots of energy to get him to do anything..lol however, I find myself working at that level now as the 'norm' so to speak. I will take your advice and remember to be consistant with her and relax when she does and match her level of reactiveness when needed. Thanks again.

At 13:56:45 on 25.05.10, JessAndGrenville123 wrote:
Join up lol the trust will be a lot greater then :) i don't use parelli as a lot of horses i know have just decided not to go along with it so i usually do join up and create my own excercises to suit the horse, like grenville likes food so i put in things like treats with exercise and stretching and basically anything so that he thinks i do this i get food, when i trained ben he was much more interested in galloping so if he did as i asked for about an hour i would take him for a quick gallop down the track behind the lunge pen, if i was working with pepsi i would introduce lots of new things as he was stimulated by new things (he is a curious pony) and would put plants under jumps and stuff like that, just think about what your horse likes and make work fun.

At 16:51:14 on 17.07.10, PonyPower wrote:
Hey Fiorana...it may be worth having a couple of sessions with a Parelli professional to help you diagnose what the issues are.I'm off to a Russell Higgins clinic weekend after next...I have an RBI, who gets very stuck, so I have to play the waiting game until she comes back to me. I took an MR foundation course 10 years ago, and join up is good...only danger is that it can encourage RBI to run into you and all you have to do is move out of the way once an dthe horse has learnt to move you, not vice versa as it should be. Good luck and let us know how you get on.

At 19:09:18 on 18.07.10, plodalong wrote:
i did 5 days with Russell last year, he was a good teacher. enjoy.