Tiff would never pay to do the real thing. - she's cheap. :~D
I don't know how good the lady is, though Tiff's been trying to encourage me to go. She's taking her two young ones... a 3 year old and the yearling that came here. She's doing mostly ground work with them.
To me, it really doesn't matter how good the purity of the Parelly method is there, any time Tiff spends doing ground work is a good thing. She took her young horse out on trail about the third time she'd ever climbed on, figuring she'd be fine if she could follow the other horses. So the horse has never had any real training, it usually bores Tiff to tears to do any basics.
But I'm encouraged that she's going... she's also interested in the Tuesday night riding at the local arena that we keep putting off going to. So, good for her. :~D
Hey, there's nothing wrong with being cheap. I'm so tight that Lincoln squeals every time somebody hands me a penny. ;o)
But you're right about anything being better than nothing. I'm guilty of falling into the "do nothing" category. The only time that's not true is when whatever you're doing is counter productive. So sometimes the method does matter.