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Summary: Horse Follow Closely
Review: If you're looking for a book of Gawani Pony Boy photos this is the book for you. If you're looking for information on American Indian culture, you'll find that here too among the full page photos of Pony Boy riding his horse(s). If you're looking for a book on how to communicate with horses or what works for gently training a horse, you can spend half as much money on one of Mark Rashid's books and get 10 times as much human/horse relationship information. This book has a few good ideas on relating to a horse, too bad you have to pay for all those full color photos of Pony Boy to get that information.
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Summary: Pretty, but little substance
Review: It makes me angry that "Pony" has so slickly marketed his Native American heritage *and* jumped on the marketing bandwagon that Monty Roberts has engineered. To be sure, the photographs are quite nice ('though I'd prefer fewer of "Pony" and more of the horses), and while I'm all for the popularization of "kinder and gentler," methods of horse training/relating to horses, I hate the unabashed and tacky slickness of "Pony Boy's" whole self-promotion industry.If you want *real* information and insight on horse-human interaction and true relationship training, do yourself (and your equines) a favor and pick up one (or better yet, all three!) of Mark Rashid's books.
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Summary: Telepathic communication is reality here!!
Review: Many people feel that there is a language between animals and humans, but it is not a spoken language. GaWaNi expounds on this language and its simplicity. If you feel that you have a gift for "talking" to animals, then this book is for you. No longer will you question this ability, but you will begin to use it with confidence and results! Easy to read; beautiful to view!
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Summary: Sharing wisdom
Review: The generous sharing in this book about the author's Relationship Training with horse and human makes it a valuable reading experience. The focus is not on some mysterious innate talent designed to make the author look superior to others. Instead, the book presents an articulate expression of the wonderful insights and practical tools that GaWaNi Pony Boy has acquired through years of work with horses and Native American elders. This book is finely written, beautifully illustrated and photographed. Reading it will leave one with the sense that she has been welcomed into a remarkable tradition that can soothe the soul.
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Summary: I find it very sad that anyone would put down this book
Review: This book is so beautiful not only in it's sensitivity toward the relationship between horse and human, but it's spiritual messages are heaven sent.
My whole life I have dreamed of this man, a true Native American Indian that has kept the traditional ways and hasn't sold out. Horses are very intelligent beings and not long ago it was rumored that they weren't. I was raised between two large horse ranches, the horse I rode the most was Apache a feisty and sweet Pinto who was a very smart tease of a horse. Horses have a very high level of intuition and emotion and get easily bored, they aren't cows. They love as deeply as humans when put in a relationship with a human that respects them as horses and allows them their freedom to be what they are and yet assist us. When you allow a horse freedom and don't force yourself on them with controlling and cruel training, you can't have a more loyal friend. This is what Gawani Pony Boy shares in depth and how to connect in ways that most humans today are completely unaware of. The photography is mind blowing. I'm proud to have this btilliant book be the only one on display on my coffee table, it lays on top of a circle of twigs made by an Indian friend.
Devra RecursiveAngel@aol.com
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Summary: Wasn't quite what I excspected
Review: this is a beautiful book...but if your looking for training techniques you won;t find many. It about alot of bonding and understanding. Most of what you get from this book is that You really have to own the horse from birth to get across teh trust andbond thathe has with his horses. it's not somethign you can do withthe 10 year old you just bought.
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Summary: Not worth the money
Review: This was an excuse for the photographer and the modern day pony boy to on a photo shoot! Not a lot of training information or revealing thoughts,if you have any experience with horses or have read any of the "get in touch with your horse" books. They waste a whole chapter teaching you how to fall of a horse if you ride bareback! i'd love to get my money back on this one.
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Summary: Don't listen to the naysayers - get your own copy!
Review: When I came here to review this incredible book, it seemed like a lot of jealous people left reviews, and managed to push/advertise the names of their favorite horse trainers out of spite. This was disspointing to say the least. What an incredible book, I have not seen any other horse trainer out their look so good in a photo! I have met Pony at an expo and he is an incredible teacher, the thousands that pack the stands are a witness to this! As for marketing, they all do it, and Pony probably does it the least, you won't see multiple SPONSOR names and his face shoved at you in every magazine you open! Also, for those who like to compare him to Monty, he was popular before his book even came out, which wasn't even a horse training book. I like the fact that this book is a taste of what Pony teaches, I like to buy all the books from my favorite trainers, and won't use this as ad space for them, since it is for reviews. Get this book if you love horses and want to learn more about them! Highly Recommend!
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