Don't 'Richard Gere' Your Horse

​A Few Thoughts on Feel and Timing

We all remember that scene in An Officer and a Gentleman:  Sargent Foley/Lou Gossett Jr.  is screaming at Zack Mayo/Richard Gere, trying to get him to DOR (drop out) of Navy Flight School.

Foley:  I want your DOR!
Mayo:  I ain’t gonna quit!
Foley:  You can forget it, you’re out!
Mayo:  Don’t you do it – don’t!  . . . .   I got nowhere else to go! 

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So here’s the corollary to horse training:  if we start out at the highest level of pressure, and the horse doesn’t respond the way we want him to . . . 

                                                   . . . . we got nowhere else to go!

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