I have been watching Stans videos on his website, the ones about the Holar training. The first one, brings up many questions. The horse seems very very very green, like horses I have started that had not much contact at all with humans, not like my Nasi, for instance, who is practically human. It is a horse more like my jaspar and Fox, brought up in a herd situation without any handling at all until old enough to start. You can see this in the way the horse flinches when she taps with the crop for instance, the way it is a little pushy-shovey walking over on her as they go around, very very nervous and jumpy acting etc.
I was wondering if they deliberately select horses like this so as to offer optimum training opportunity for both horse and trainer. How old is the horse? What is her object exactly. I know what mine would be, but what is hers. Is she trying to get it to walk at her shoulder, never pulling, never dragging, never too close? to stop when she stops and start when she starts or is she cueing other than what we see ?? In the second video, there was a comment from someone asking about the more traditional training and how this roundpenning was different. I would like to know that too! Wow Stan, I would love to see you like, film a buncha goofball happy middleaged american women at a Liz Graves clinic and get her eeking gait out of a horse like blood out of a turnip the way she does sometimes. That would be awesome! And then we could take you out to mexican food and get you drunk on margaritas and secretly film you on our cell phones and put it on OUR blogsites HAHAHAAHA now THAT would go to canne i think! Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
