Stalemate Parelli

Pat Parelli was born in 1954 in California. Plunged as of 9 years in the world of the horse, he is regarded today as one of the most famous new American Masters, the Chuchoteur S , which look further into the relation man-horse through a significant approach of the horsemanship and raising which respects the Cheval and its major nature.

Achievements

Pat Parelli developed an equestrian method: the Parelli Natural Horsemanship or PNH . It is one of the men of horses at the origin of the expressions “natural horsemanship” and “ethologic horsemanship”. In France, although their collaboration ceased, it took part during many years in re-elected Haras of Supposed the whose Andy Booth took again the teaching torch to write the Méthode Supposed the which strongly rises from PNH .

Parelli recommends the use of effective tools such as the halter out of cord, of which them his clean are called halters Parelli . The halter out of cord exists for a long time, was used by the Indians of America in particular, and is increasingly widespread in the world of the Natural Horsmanship . It also developed a particular tool used as extension of the arm to help to give the indications to the horse. This tool, the carrot stick , more rigid than a stick of raising, consists of a glass fiber stem of orange color, of a sleeve of golf and a leather loop which makes it possible to attach a cord to it.

The organization PNH developed around the name of its method: there exists a Savvy Club , equestrian events like the Savvy Conferences or the Savvy Tour are organized, the teaching kits of the method are republished or improved, etc…

The method Parelli Natural Horsemanship (PNH)

In the Parelli method, all starts with foot. It is a question of establishing a communication with its horse and of creating the first bonds of mutual respect and confidence by structured and progressive exercises called the seven plays . Once the first outlines of a relation of established communication, the 7 plays are reproduced in saddle, and are carried out more and more finely as the rider and its horse progress in the Parelli levels, gaining in fluidity and lightness. The method thus comprises work with foot and assembled work.

Method PNH ( Parelli Natural Horsemanship ) currently knows 10 levels:

Level 1: the partnership ( Partnership );
Level 2: the harmony ( Harmony );
Level 3: the smoothness ( Refinement );
Level 4: the versatility ( Versatility );
Level 5: the Unit ( Unity );
Level 6: the true Unit ( True unity );
Level 7,8,9: control of the true Unit;
Level 10: the supreme Unit (the myth of the Centaur).

The more the levels increase, the more the relation, the respect, confidence and the communication is reinforced. Parelli regards itself as being on level 5.

Method PNH does not stop with the seven plays. It is a complete method of horsemanship, since education, until raising, while passing by the stripping of the horse, this by using equine psychology. The finality is to have a horse partner which feels safe with its rider, which is physically but also mentally and émotionnellement with its rider, and which yields to the least indications of plate, of legs and hands.

Great principles of the method

the horse must see the man like a leader of the group and not like a dominated predator or one.
the horse works in the variety, which enables him to avoid being in a state of routine and making assumptions on what is required of him.
the communication man-horse is carried out in the two directions.
the man and the horse have each one their responsibilities. The horse must act as partner, maintain his pace and its direction and look at where it goes. The rider must also act as a partner, be concentrated, think horse and to have an independent plate.
the attitude with respect to the horse must be right: requiring but without forcing, allowing and not laissez-faire
the language of the body is universal and allows the man and the horse to communicate.
the rider is formed with horses confirmed before being able itself to teach with young horses.
the tools of the training are the principles, the objectives and time. The horse learns initially the principles, then has objectives to reach. These stages take time, element necessary of a good teaching.

Seven plays of Parelli

The plays are carried out during a work in longe. According to the level of the horse, the longe used makes 4,7 or 15 meters. The plays can be also made in freedom, in a round of longe or a larger space if the level of communication between the horse and its rider allows it.

Play of the friendship (" friendly game"). The horse is exposed to situations which frighten him but which do not make him any evil to prove to him that it can make confidence with the man and cease his fears.
Play of the porcupine (" porcupine game"). By the pressure of the hands or fingers, the horse must move or deviate.
Jeu of hunting drives out or play of control (" driving game"). The horse must yield and move thanks to the mental pressure of the rider which uses a language of suggestion.
Play of the yo-yo (" yoyo game"). The horse learns how to move back then to advance, by requesting it only with the longe, the length remaining motionless.
Play of the circle (" circle game"). The horse must remain on a circle by preserving its pace by respect for the man.
Play of side displacement (" sideways game"). By mobilizing it through the go along, the man, while remaining in the same place, makes move the horse laterally.
Play of the corridor or play of the narrow passage (" squeeze game"). The horse learns how to pass through narrow spaces.

Once the 7 acquired plays, it is possible to combine them to carry out more complicated operations, as well on the ground as in saddle.

Quotations

One cannot claim to control a horse as long as oneself is not controlled.
Would be as soft as possible, but as firm as necessary.
Ca never takes more than two days.
All wants to say something (translation of Nothing is nothing, everything is something. )
Your horse can only be as courageous as you

No horse is larger than the end of its ears when its nose touches the ground

Ethology

For Pat Parelli, the basic problem of the relation man horse is that the horse perceives the man like a predator. Like any potential prey, it is programmed to escape, in a way or another, to any danger. There is thus necessary to know to show itself as soft as possible while remaining firm. As for all the “new Masters” its methods are based on the study of the equine behavior and its psychology.

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