If I asked most people to draw a picture of a horse chances are they would draw a head attached to a neck, attached to a body, attached to four legs, and finally add a tail, ears, eyes, etc to their masterpiece.
One of the things that I am developing a reputation for is my skepticism about the growing trend to label a training method or a principle as being “scientifically proven”.
I have described the goal of teaching a horse to let go of an idea and then teaching it to accept a new idea as being fundamental to achieving “oneness”.
In my view, we should compete only when we feel we have had a good day because we spent it with our horse, even if we came last. I suspect competition has ruined more horses and more human/horse relationships than most of us want to admit.
