Saturday -- Parelli Games

This is the third Saturday I have participated in the Parelli Games. It really is fun. I don't know what it will look like when it is rolled out.

There were four or 5 stations. All the Savvy club members in the area were invited to participate. Since I had other things I wanted to play with, I only did 3 of the 5 stations.

The three I did were FREESTYLE: One was a gait within a gait -- Which means walk as slowly as you can. . . go back and trot as slowly as you can -- go back and trot as fast as you can. You get timed on each of these. Then when you do it another day, you can see if there was any improvement, etc. You were disqualified if you broke gait.

The second station I did was a freestyle obstacle course -- kinda like the "extreme obstacle races" on RFD tv. We were to go over the bridge, back through the water -- or back over the bridge (whichever our horse would do) -- side pass in front of a 20 foot log. circle the white obstacle, do a figure 8 around two preassigned trees, go through the squeeze tunnel, put one foot inside a tire with sand, and then jump a huge log. We were timed and could do it at any speed we wanted. You got time added if you did not complete an obstacle and 30 seconds taken away if you did it without reins.

The third station was a double barrel pattern -- when you were finished with the pattern, you had to go to the middle (question box) drop your reins and stay there for 7 seconds. Fanny and I did this one at a trot.

The other stations were on line and liberty -- I did not do those stations.

But last week the on-line task was to back your horse through two obstacles, send him to the tarp and stand 4 feet on for 7 seconds, jump both ways over a big log while you were sitting on a chair, and do a weave pattern between cones. You had X amount of time to complete it -- (like 3 minutes or whatever).

Liberty was to do similar type of tasks at liberty in the honeycomb -- taking your horse from round pen to round pen to complete the tasks.



It was fun -- I can hardly wait for us in Iowa to do Parelli Games . . .

Until next time. . .
jo