WHY is everyones answer always to use a Tie Down Dont they know about other riding techniques

I come on here to try to help people train their horse in a safe manner.

There are legitimate horse training questions, questions that are great opportunities for the riders to learn more.

Yet the answers are almost always the same -

"Get a Tie Down."

"Get a Martingale."

What the heck, guys?? There IS such a thing as learning to train your horse WITHOUT the use of harmful "gadgets"!! Good, classical, patient training and riding will do the best for your horse, not gadgets!

Is anyone else scared of these novice horse-people being given such incorrect answers?

Does anyone else think that a "tiedown" is harmful and dangerous to both horse and rider??

More importantly, in the few events that a tiedown SHOULD be used, does anyone else think it should be reserved for qualified trainers??

Yup I agree with you also.

There is tons of junk advice given by people that have no clue how to properly ride a horse, let alone train them. For some reason they flock to Y/A horse section and become 'trainers'.

I went to a ranch rodeo last weekend and watched some of the horses in warm up. I realize they are 'roping horses' and need a tie down when doing their job, however, these horses had no basic training on suppleness and bending at the pole etc. Their heads were so high up and only held back by the tie down. That was just in warm up. There is no reason why a roping horse can't have the proper training and I have seen some dang good ones that were.