Parelli games

[stella]

Hi
Have any of you had any experience of trying Parelli's 7 games?

I'm quite intrigued by them and am going to have a go when my daughter gets to loan her first pony in a couple of weeks.

I sent off for back pages of Your Horse magazine showing you how to perform the games. I could imagine that the video would be helpful to follow the instructions properly.

Any thoughts, folks?

Stella

[LadyLimerik]

They mentioned the Parelli games in one of the Your Horse magazines but unfortunately I didn't have the issues about it. What issues were they? They sound interesting. I'd like to find more out about it too.

[floppy]

i sent off for the issue i missed about parrelli game too from yrou horse mag. :D
i just havent had the time to try it yet

[fionahogg]

If your interested I can thoroughly recommend 'Natural Horse-Man-Ship' by Pat Parelli. It's about £10 and you can get it from Amazon. It really is an excellent book, well worth buying.

[Miriam]

I did a few of the games with my last pony and he enjoyed them. Unfortunately I cannot find the mags so I can do them with Rhi and will have to send off for them.


Miriam

[Yvonne M]

Stella, there is a web site for the Parelli
http://www.parelli.co.uk.

Have not tried it myself but interested to find out how good it is.

Yvonne

[kiwi-rider]

Yes Yes Yes, these games a great and everyone who rides or cares for horses should be familiar with them. The video would be very helpfull, take particular note of Pats body posiyions and what he's doing with his hands. The absolute golden rule is to spend as much time as it takes to get the horse to respond to your hands and the rope. Dont be temted to go on until you can do those basic things just like Pat. It might take some time but I've done it with five different horses and they all come round in the end. Even our new-born foals learn to move away from your hand and not to panic about a bit of rope round their leg or rump or neck. You will end up with a horse that is a delight to handle in the paddock, barn or box, and will be safe as well. The object of the games is to give the horse confidence in himself, and faith in you. I dont know of a better thing you can do to improve your understanding of your horse than to master these game. And they are lots of fn too!!

[stella]

Hi Kiwi-Rider

You've just sold those games to me - can't wait to get going with them! I've read through the game instructions a few times and also have Parelli's book that Fionahogg recommended.
Ideally, I'd like to go to one of his demos or something but I might get the video.

Thanks
Stella