Re: Re: Re: Please explain NH to me.

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Sandy Bolinger <bolinger@bigsky.net>
To: Tracey <tracey@tbt.co.za>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Please explain NH to me.


> Tracey--Shannon did a great job of explaining it...and of course I ask
> why---to everything...which is HOW I figure out what parts of Natural
> Horsemanship work for me and and what parts don't. You can over-immerse
> yourself in anything...immersion by itself is a good thing if you keep the
> blinders off. Did I "complain" because you rejected it???? Nope!  I don't
> care if you reject it or not...makes no never-mind to me!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tracey <tracey@tbt.co.za>
> To: Sandy Bolinger <bolinger@bigsky.net>; <RQuestarabians@aol.com>
> Cc: <Ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:59 AM
> Subject: RC: Re: Re: Please explain NH to me.
>
>
> > Hi, again, Sandy
> >
> >
> > >Tracey---I'm not even going to attemp to explain it ...because I would
> > probably fail miserably...there are so many different methods etc that I
> > wouldn't even know where to begin>
> >
> > That's okay, I just want you to explain why the NHmen chase the horses
> round
> > the pen.  That's all.
> >
> >
> >
> > >...for example...I have watched lots of videos on dressage, talked to
> lots
> > of dressage people, attended clinics and taken a few lessons...with all
> that
> > I have barely scratched the tip of the iceberg....I know the ONLY way I
> can
> > ever truely understand and learn dressage is by doing it with
> > instructors...hours and years on end...and probably the more instructors
> one
> > can study under the better; because they
> > all do things differently and have different good techniques to offer.>
> >
> > But don't you ever ask : why?  Why does an instructor teach a horse the
> > canter strike-off with the outside leg, when you will need that later
for
> > half-pass, for instance.  Each instructor may offer a good and different

> > technique, but if he / she can't explain why it has value, then they
have
> no
> > right to be teaching it.  Same for my query about NH : put it in terms I
> can
> > understand, or don't complain if I reject it.
> >
> >
> > >Just like a person can never learn what they need to know about trail
> > riding from inside an arena...so a person a never understand what all
this
> > Natual Horsemanship stuff is about until they, for a period of time,
> immerse
> > themselve in it...>
> >
> >
> > Wrong : you can immerse yourself in it until you can't see anything but
> NH,
> > that's not understanding : that's blind faith.  If you want to
understand
> > something, you have to question it, probe it, turn it upside-down and
see
> if
> > it still works.
> >
> >
> > And I'm still waiting for Marv, or another proponent of NH to explain to
> me
> > just what is so natural, and so magical, about round-penning, that
someone
> > needs to "immerse" themselves in it to understand it.
> >
> >
> > Tracey
> >
> >
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