Hi, Splash:

I just wanted to commiserate with you about the dressage forum and some of the posts thereon. I think, unfortunately, that when we try to meet dogmatic opinions with logic and rationale we are liable to be attacked, and that's what happened to you. I don't ever believe that there's only one way to approach anything, the trick is to find the best spproach for any given situation, so whenever someone tells me that they are or have "the way", my antennae (and to be honest, my hackles) go up. I'm not even sure that Jean Luc Cornille espouses his beliefs to the radical extent his partner, Helyn, does, but she definitely has a patronizing and condescending attitude, and it comes across in her posts. The tone is antagonistic from the start, so I think it's a waste of time and energy to try to open her mind...