Level 3 On-Line Notes

Parelli Level 3 On-Line Notes

• Be good with coiling your rope
• Keeps it neat and safe, helps reduce coil tension
• Know the difference between suggest, ask, tell, and promise
• Use intent / body language with the phases
• Horses want safety, comfort, and play
• Horse's Responsibilities: maintain gait, maintain direction, look where he's going, don't act like a prey animal
• When the rope is on the horse pretend like it's not
• Expect a lot, ask little, reward often
• 51/49 partnership > use the attitude of justice
• Human - how appropriate am I in applying pressure?
• Be particular without being critical - go for excellence / refinement
• Respect = appropriate response to pressure
• Horsenality = environmental factors, innate characteristics, and learned behavior
• In Level 3 have more function to the games
• Straight lines for friendly (i.e., handshake, Labrador), curves/arcs for dominance (i.e., Border Collie), change in energy and intention with straight lines and arcs
• Level 3 horses respond with respect and without fear
• Trust is good, but control is better
• Advanced concept for the driving game - play it on a circle (don't make it lunging!)
• 1st 3 games are like primary colors
• Humans have circular body space - adding the Carrot Stick makes us oval, horses have an oval body space
• Straightness is very important in the yo-yo (no yo-nana!)
• Transitions are yo-yos
• Get away from wiggling the rope, use the stick to drive horse back - head/neck posture, performance down the road
• Play with the yo-yo from different zones
• Leadership through polite and passive persistence in the proper position
• Play the games with a purpose
• Yo-yo is a fulcrum game
• On a circle there is the send, allow, bring back, AND resend
• Resend engages the mind then the body
• Be assertive (half way between being a wimp and being aggressive)
• Impulsion is emotional collection, go = whoa
• Remember persona body posture - intent / netural
• Disengage the hindquarters for safety (base narrow), base wide / engagement = power
• Look for even slack in the rope on a circle, a circle shows what's important to the horse: safety, comfort, or play
• It is natural for prey animals to be pattern animals
• Human's Responsibilities: think like a horse (feel, think, act, play), have an independent seat (or feet!), use the natural power of focus, don't act like a predator
• Important to lead the nose when teaching leads on the bow tie pattern
• Wait until the horse has passed your body, walk with him, lead the nose, ask for lead > timing is important here!
• Circles build sideways
• Consistency creates obedience, obedience is the message getting to the feet
• Mind, body, weight, feet
• Obedience + Exuberance = Dignity
• Sideways on a circle slows the horse down, helps refine things - don't wiggle the rope at horse, pattern interrupt
• Be progressive!
• Seeking Positive Reflexes = Effort
• Can up the Squeeze game by adjusting impulsion
• Leadership means you've got a plan
• Use the rail for help in change of direction
• Think of your belly button as a start or finish line - push the energy of the horse up or down after the horse passes the line (upward) or before they get to the line (downward)
• Circles - maintaining a true, quality neutral, changing directions, nice transitions
• Sideways allows the horse to have suspension naturally
• 45' line - toss and coil both right and left handed
• Punsishment makes prey animals act more like prey animals and convinces them we are predators
• Know the Bank Robbers knot as a quick release knot, especially for trailer tying