Personally, I don't like his technics at all. He preaches for example about not pestering a horse, yet, as I have sat and watched at least 30 of his videos, he pesters a horse all the time. An example is when he's working on the kicking paint stud. Yes! it takes what he was doing for example in the 1st video with pestering his back legs until the horse stops. But when the horse stopped, he didn't pause nearly long enough to give the horse time enough to even think about the release of pressure before he went right back at it again. Then in video 2 and 3, when the horse would take a step back when trying to back the horse, he didn't release the pressure allowing the horse to realize "HEY! If I back up he'll stop!" No, he just stayed on the horse agitating it, until finally, it reared up! He knew it was going to happen because he knows he was agitating the horse wanting him to do it. Now I'm not saying I'm a horse trainer by any stretch of the word, but I've owned two horses (one for 25 years and the other is its colt, now a 12-year-old guiding. Got the mare right after she was weaned off her mother) and I've both worked with them myself and with other trainers I've taken them to. Basically, we all have more used a little of Clinton Anderson's methods combined with some or Parelli horsemanship technics. But I think we all know the pressure and release technique far better than David Lee Archer shows. What Archer does prove, is that if you pester a horse long enough, it will learn. Maybe not well for the horse or for the human, but since horses are really incredibly smart, they'll either learn or end up hurting someone. Which is always the human's fault if they do IMO. Yes, I've been kicked at from my horses, never hit, but I sure know how hard they can kick if you don't get them liking and respecting you. No doubt all horses when around humans need teaching. But there are better ways, than what I've seen from the Archer videos.