Who started it all?

icyssunset · 04-13-2007, 09:51 AM

So I was just thinking about this..Who started the whole natural horsemanship revolution. Sure we know all the big wigs of today, but is there anyone that is known as the father of natural horsemanship? Was there anyone that started the whole thing off? I'd just find it interesting as to who you all thought it was.

tbtrainer · 04-13-2007, 09:52 AM

I'm guessing the first girl or guy that looked at a horse and decided to hop on!

cd_horton · 04-13-2007, 10:04 AM

Ray Hunt was the first well known trainer who used varing methods of "natural horsemanship", however in those days the only way to learn was to hope to see him in action.....Pat Parrelli and John Lyons where likley the first one to actually market the idea on a large basis....leading to the large volumes of clinicians on the market today....If you pay attention you will see Curt Pate "testing the waters" to see if he can be an inovator in a new direction...he is quietly trying to poke holes in the lateral flexion and bending exercises, gaining respect by making the horse move, desensitising, ect....theories that so many clinicians are using...only time will tell if what is proposing will have the same following and popularity of methods used by Parrelli, Anderson, Reis, Cox, ect...

luvtodrive · 04-13-2007, 10:18 AM

I believe Tom Dorrance was a big influence to most of the "natural horsemanship" trainers,but Pat Parelli was the one that coined the term "Natural Horsemanship.

avasmom · 04-13-2007, 10:42 AM

I want to say that Monty Roberts had a huge part in exposing natural horsemanship to the world-maybe he wasn't first, but after him a lot more people popped up.

JBandRio · 04-13-2007, 10:52 AM

Xenophon

kewpalace · 04-13-2007, 11:00 AM

Someone WAY before Xenophon would be my guess . . . I'm sure he learned it from someone else . . . Egyptians were good horsemen as were the Assyrians (if memory serves, which it doesn't always) . . .

For "modern" (pretty much present day) I'd have to go with the Dorrance Brothers ...

BettyBootsy · 04-13-2007, 12:02 PM

I'm not commenting other then it was way before PP but everyones thoughts are interesting!

Just_me · 04-13-2007, 12:27 PM

I think natural horsemanship comes from way way way back...indians,egyptians etc.It spread piece by piece until there were people like ray hunt who influenced"modern naturalhorsemanship".

Lindsayanne · 04-13-2007, 12:36 PM

Agreed, Xenophon in 350 BC was the start of this "new" "revolutionary" "modern" horse training method.

On Horsemanship (Xenophon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Quote:

...As the result of this treatment, necessarily the young horse will acquire--not fondness merely, but an absolute craving for human beings. A good deal can be done by touching, stroking, patting those parts of the body which the creature likes to have so handled... The groom should have standing orders to take his charge through crowds, and to make him familiar with all sorts of sights and noises; and if the colt shows sign of apprehension at them, he must teach him--not by cruel, but by gentle handling--that they are not really formidable.
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/hrsmn10.txt

04-13-2007, 09:51 AM	#1
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cd_horton Senior Member+ Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 1,017 Images: 60	Ray Hunt was the first well known trainer who used varing methods of "natural horsemanship", however in those days the only way to learn was to hope to see him in action.....Pat Parrelli and John Lyons where likley the first one to actually market the idea on a large basis....leading to the large volumes of clinicians on the market today....If you pay attention you will see Curt Pate "testing the waters" to see if he can be an inovator in a new direction...he is quietly trying to poke holes in the lateral flexion and bending exercises, gaining respect by making the horse move, desensitising, ect....theories that so many clinicians are using...only time will tell if what is proposing will have the same following and popularity of methods used by Parrelli, Anderson, Reis, Cox, ect... __________________ Romans 10:9 "If you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."

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Just_me Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: europe-the wide wild world:-) Posts: 2,519 Images: 6	I think natural horsemanship comes from way way way back...indians,egyptians etc.It spread piece by piece until there were people like ray hunt who influenced"modern naturalhorsemanship". __________________ ,.:+`The OnLy Place Where YoUr DreAms BecOme ImpoSsIble,Is In YoUr Own ThinKing`+:.,

04-13-2007, 10:18 AM	#4
luvtodrive Full Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 139 Images: 21	I believe Tom Dorrance was a big influence to most of the "natural horsemanship" trainers,but Pat Parelli was the one that coined the term "Natural Horsemanship.

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avasmom Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Riverview, FL Posts: 499 Images: 37	I want to say that Monty Roberts had a huge part in exposing natural horsemanship to the world-maybe he wasn't first, but after him a lot more people popped up.

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kewpalace Full Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 219 Images: 23	Someone WAY before Xenophon would be my guess . . . I'm sure he learned it from someone else . . . Egyptians were good horsemen as were the Assyrians (if memory serves, which it doesn't always) . . . For "modern" (pretty much present day) I'd have to go with the Dorrance Brothers ...

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BettyBootsy Senior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 3,151 Images: 87	I'm not commenting other then it was way before PP but everyones thoughts are interesting!

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