Natural Horse-Man-Ship: August 2009

Welcome to my blog of my progress in the Parelli Program!

This is a blog of my journey with my wonderful, amazing, smart, unconfident and then pretends to be--and is-- defaint, Quarter Horse mare, Brizzee, in the Parelli Program! We are official Level 1 Graduates as of spring, of 2009! We are currently playing with On-Line and Freestyle at Levels 2 & 3. I am also beginning to "play" with a friends horse. Sugar is a RBI 5 year old bay Quarter Horse. She is really "calm" and "quiet" and isn't very confident, but she's sensitive and very willing. I thank you for coming with me along my journey of playing with two wonderful horses! :)

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Think it's been long enough?

Holy toleto!! I haven't been on here FOREVER!! So sorry about that, but I've been busy, busy, busy! I've been babysitting my niece and nephew, I've been busy helping my mom with things, busy with a few Team Sorting, busy farming, and everything else. Holy crap! We've just been flooded with things in July. I've gone camping with my sister for one weekend, then went camping with my dad for a whole week, got back just in time to help my mom totally clean and arrange the house for a StemTech meeting (if anyone is interested in StemEnhance, StemFlo, StemSport, StemEquine, or StemPets, please go to www.roya.stemtechbiz.com to learn more information about that), and then it's been so busy lately.

I haven't have much time to do much with Brizzee lately. I've played with her a little bit, but not very long, and I've ridden her a few times, but nothing major happening there. I'm hoping (fingers crossed) that things will settle down here shortly, and that will give me more time to play with her and a new member of our equine family, Half Pint. I rode Half Pint a little bit today for the first time iwth my mom leading her. She still needs to gain a lot of weight. So anyhoo, just wanted to give a quick update. Hopefully I'll be able to keep regular posts! :-)

Savvy On,
~Randa~ & ~Brizzee~

Oct. 11th, 2009

She is extremely Left Brain Introvert, but I have noticed that she is a lot more unconfident and distrustful, then she is confident and trustful. But we're slowly getting there--everytime we play there's an improvement. She's beginning to trust me more and more, and when she does get confused or unconfident, most the time she turns to me :-) But she has totally switched from when I first got her; then she was an extreme Right Brain Extrovert. Not moving her feet was unheard of. lol. And now she won't do anything hehe = -)

Things I need to be more Savvy with as of 10/2/10

As of today Sunday, Oct. 2nd, 2010, these are things I need to work on (Blue equals complete from the last update {August 3rd}:

Online:
1. Be more creative, fun, unpredicatable.
2. ENERGY; Bring it up and down.
3. Focusing with my body more - get a lot more "Body Langauge"
4. Take the time it takes, so it take less time.
5. Be patient - wait as long as needed; "I've never seen it take longer then two days" - - Pat Parelli
6. Wait until she licks her lips.
7. Be more INTERESTING!!
8. ADVANCE!! I have a tendency to stay with the "basics" and not advance. I want to advance, but at yet I don't do it because I want to "perfect" everything...UGH! Perfection comes with time, move on!
9. Be/having patience!

Freestyle:
1. Take the time it takes - go slower.
2. As soon as I get on, get OFF!
3. Hurry up, and just sit there.
4. Being more fluid and have more "movement/ENERGY" in my body.
5. Go slow.
6. STOP when it feels good (her being relaxed, calm, etc.)
7. BE CREATIVE/INTERESTING!
8. Be/have patience--I'm trying very hard with this!
And probably a lot more!

Liberty:
1. Do the same thing as I do online.
2. Don't panic, just go slow.
3. As soon as something goes wrong, put the halter back on.
4. Don't expect a lot all at once.
5. Have patience.
I haven't done much at Liberty with her yet.

Finesse:
Haven't even started that yet...but I'd say to HAVE PATIENCE!
Every time I play with her I'll probably add more things...and hopefully check things off! ;-)