Myvinnie,
I just read your post about being 13, congrats it's a great time to love and to enjoy horses. I have been raising a training horses for over 25 yrs, so here's a word of caution about rewarding with treats. I mean food, be it grain or carrots or peppermint candy. I have seen many horses that go and stick there nose in the owners or trainers pockets and then start to push them with their nose. In short the horse is all over them and after a short time they refuse to work unless they get their treat. I really hate giving treats as a reward for doing the right thing. The way I reward my horse is a rub or a scratch in the right place or a kind reassuring word. Don't get me wrong if I'm going down my barn isle our out in the turnout and I expect nothing from them, most of the time I have some peppermint candy, licorice whips (red), a slice of apple to give them as a treat. My wife also makes sure they have carrots and apples included in their grain most every day.
I train much like Parrelli does, but I also use a lot of Clinton Anderson's and Chris Cox's techniques. If you ever get a chance to see how Clinton Anderson trains a horse to load in a trailer it's great. Positive and negitive reinforcment without touching the horse, unless the horse challanges him. My wife and I have been to PNH clinic a few times, including the clinic he holds every year at his place in Colorado. We have also been to his place in Ocala, Fl., but not during the clinic he has there. Pat is good but he does not have every answer for every horse. But I do like the natural horse training techniques.
My horse discovered he could break out of the cross ties and he did every time I tied him for a few times. He got dangerous in the ties, I could not tie him in the isle with or without other horses, I couldn't tie him to the trailer or a post. So desperate times calls for a good amount of negitive reinforcment. But never when he is doing what you want, only
while he is acting up, you have about a 3 second window while he is acting up to correct the problem. This was a couple of years ago, my horse now cross ties just fine, I can turn him in with a piece of baling twine over the top of his neck, I even trust him in to ground tie, but if there is a chance I may have miles to walk I still find a good tree to tie to. Kind of a trust everyone and brand your calves deal.
If you don't want to risk breaking the rope halter you may try using two of the regular halters and securing the horse very well with heavy duty stuff, rope, clips and double halter. Make sure you tie the horse to something that won't pull out, like a good size tree. Also make sure you tie the horse with the tied off end higher then the head, this will really reduce the pressure on the neck and chance of injury. You have to have a horse that can be tied around other horses.
Good luck and think twice about the treats as a reward, they should be exactly what they are called.... a treat not a reward.
Alan