The levels of dressage made it easy to set goals and identify where you're at, but there was so much pressure. I always felt the need to improve a half pass or a collected canter before a show. With Parelli, I don't feel any of that pressure.
Our trot Figure 8 isn't the greatest, but I have no deadline to make it better by. When auditioning to pass a level in Parelli, it is not the quality of the movement that matters, but more of your relationship with your horse. You can't find that in any other sport.
The audition works like this: You send in a tape of you and you horse playing for 10 minutes. The video must include a few things depending on the level and the savvy. For level 2 online you must show a leg massage, figure 8, trot to back up, and touch it! As long as you do all of those things, the rest of the time is yours.
Then a Parelli Professional will watch your video, fill out a score sheet, let you know what level you're at and give a bit of feedback! The score sheet is set up so that there is a column for each level and they can check of what level you are for each criteria. Here is our score sheet that we got back:
As you can see, we passed 2++ which means we did the best we could for level 2! On to level 3 it is!!!
The goal is you help you identify where you are, what you're good at and what needs work. For the most part I knew everything beforehand, but it is really reassuring to have it there on paper from a Parelli Professional! AND, if you pass all savvys for that level, you get a colored savvy string and a certificate!
So here is our very first audition, level 2 online!
Nice work! How do you enter this?? Thanks
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