Why are some horse people so nosy, negative and close minded

Me and another boarder at my barn found this great natural horse trainer who uses a lot of priciples from how the Native Americans trained their horses.there are tons of fun exercises and really "crazy" things to try with your horse that will help with bonding and trust and since we both have young horses, we really like these techniques. Problem is, most of the people at our barn give us crap for it. A lot of the things involove crawling under your horse, laying in the pasture with him.etc etc. I know that these sound so crazy, but why must people bash us for trying them. They are always telling us how we are going to get hurt and they act like we know nothing about horses. I've been around horses for 20 years, riding since I was 5 and if I didn't trust my horse, I wouldn't be trying these methods. I know they can be dangerous, but so can any technique and if I get trampled, then hey, that's my business, I know the dangers involved. Why must most horse people be so negative?

What some people don't understand is that what you are doing will help you to understand your horse, your horse will have enhanced trust in you, and ultimately you will be safer in one anothers company! You will be able to read the tiny signals he gives you, and react to him much more efficiently.

I don't advocate using Natural techniques without having the back up of someone much more experienced than you, to guide you in the safest way possible, but anything we can do to help us understand horses better can't be a bad thing!