The French Monty Robberts?

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The French Monty Robberts?

Postby erins isle » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:12 pm

Hi all,
I found this on our Dutch forum, enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_mdwvU1Gc
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Postby GrapDragon » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:20 pm

personally i think comparing that guy to Monty Roberts would be an insult. the french-man is a far superior horseman in my opinion. he doesnt try to sell his training as a a "revolution" and he fully endorses his SHOW as a SHOW not some mystical secret hype to cash in. hes a show man just like all the others, the difference is he doesnt try to deny it. id let that guy handle my horses before id let any of those other "gurus" get within a hundred feet of my horses, JMHO!

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Postby ratherrapid » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:56 pm

incredible. txs for posting.

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Postby jellac » Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:37 pm

Very interesting - and lovely to look at. I am guessing these are some domesticated individuals of the 'wild horses' of the Camargue region in France, near the border with Spain? They certainly look like they might be -- I was most impressed by the part where he's working with one young horse indivdiually, no reins, leads or anything other than a training whip and using nothing more really than the 'herd' instinct in a horse and man game of chase, he suddeny turns back in on himself, causing the horse to willingly perform an almost 36O degree turn off his hind quarters, or pirouette, as he tries to catch up.

Hmmm....me thinks:

Dressage riders might do well to consider this as a potential prepatory training method for suppling and strengthening a horse in preparation for asking a horse to perform piroettes or turning from the hindquaters with a rider up. Once the horse has developed the suppling, strength and balance (which comes from the suppling and strengthening) to actually perfrom such movements, he is then much better prepared to do the same with a rider's added weight/the difference in balance that makes. I suspect that a horse trained in such a manner would likely learn more quickly what is being asked of him as he's done it before and it was fun/pleasant. That memory is there, it is simply the cues that have changed.

For that matter it might also prove a good pre-training/strengthening and suppling exercise for the Western performance horse owners/trainers such as cutting and reining competitors to consider using as well that want their mounts to excecute that smooth 180 degree rollback with minimal cueing/reining.

Hmmmm....(makes plans to free school mare to see how this might work, next trip to the farm)