To begin with let's take a look at a more or less normal case in point. At a presentation in Holland class was shown a very nervous Arab mare, which in spite of great efforts made by the owner would hardly let itself be handled, less touched by anything like a blanket.
But with class things seem to happen like lightening. Without hesitation the horse is letting itself be touched by this stranger, and just reacting to his test instructions as it had been trained a long time.
What does class mean, when he says, what I do, I do absolutely without any intentions. I don't make any demands on the horse only on myself. I must have a feeling for the horse. Feel a total togetherness.
After a few minutes the horse is finally trotting behind the object of its fears, as if it were hypnotized. The contact with the saddle blanket makes the mare start, but she then tolerates this foreign object all over her body. The horse is totally transformed, the owner says.
After just 15 minutes the horse is led by the horseman on a slack rope as if they had grown up together. The horse reacts to the slightest movement; it doesn't miss this slightest body signal. Instant harmony and oneness, just add water and stir, no, absolutely not. The art of his natural speech as class quoted is not simply the superficial training of a few signals learned by heart. To learn the secret, it is necessary to look much deeper, to get behind the art to show, in order to learn to sense the real inner rhythm of the horse.
