Author: Hannah Weston Publisher: ISBN: 9781916210103 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
A practical guide to using reward-based training techniques to create a true partnership with your horse. This leads to lifelong connection, effective problem-solving and joyful performance.
Author: Paul D. Cronin Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813922874 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
The director of the riding program at Sweet Briar College for more than 30 years, Cronin is a well-known and highly respected trainer and riding instructor. Here he presents a clear and practical guide to getting the most out of a horse in a humane and sensitive way.
Author: Hugh Morshead Publisher: Kenilworth Press ISBN: 9781905693351 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
This updated and expanded manual covers the latest safety aspects of building a cross-country course. From practice fences at home up to three-day event standard and courses at all levels, the emphasis in this practical guide is on building safe courses, with fences that inspire confidence - and which won't break the bank. This comprehensive book is crammed with valuable insights for course designers and builders, riders, coaches, organisers and officials. AUTHOR: Hugh Morshead is a respected FEI course designer with over twenty-five years experience. This book is a distillation of the knowledge he has accumulated over the years, imparted with generosity and a modicum of humour. REVIEWS: 'For competitors, organisers and course builders/designers alike....a must.' - Ian Stark 'These pages truly reflect course design and course building from a horseman's perspective.' ILLUSTRATIONS: colour illustrations
Author: Wendy Murdoch Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books ISBN: 157076719X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 266
Book Description
Better balance in the saddle, improved body control from head to toe, and increased influence with your seat are just a handful of the simple fixes offered in this straightforward training manual for jumping. Most of the suggestions provided require only a few minutes to learn and offer solutions for making jumping more enjoyable for both riders and their horses. By starting and ending each ride with these simple, easy, and effective fixes, equestrians will happily and efficiently replace old habits with new ones and get out of the riding rut we all find ourselves in at some point in our riding career.
Author: Phillip Dutton Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books ISBN: 1570766932 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 502
Book Description
This fabulously illustrated book covers training, conditioning, and competing in all three phases of events: dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. In addition, Dutton includes full chapters describing the special needs of the event horse, with tips and advice from the top experts who make up his internationally respected eventing team—his groom, his farrier, and his veterinarian. You'll find guidance in everything from daily maintenance to braiding and turnout, and from hoof care and studs to common health issues and "vet box" care of your horse during competitions. With tips for finding the right event prospect, whatever your level of experience, as well as Dutton's own schooling exercises, both on the flat and over fences, the book promises to give you the leg up you need for a safe and confident start in the sport.
Author: Jack Le Goff Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books ISBN: 1570768684 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 375
Book Description
With an astounding eighteen medals in eight international championships and team gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1984, Jack Le Goff created the standard by which modern–day equestrian teams are measured. But Le Goff's techniques could be unforgiving–tough, brutal, and abrasive–earning him critics as well as converts. In this, his autobiography, Le Goff tells the whole story, from impoverished beginnings in Morocco, to the tragic death of his father, to his successes as a competitive equestrian. Readers will enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of high–level international equestrian sport, as well as an entire section devoted to Le Goff's much admired and extremely successful training philosophy.
Author: Lesley Ward Publisher: Storey Publishing ISBN: 1580176720 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 145
Book Description
Provides an introduction for young readers to all aspects of horse jumping, covering such topics as training, exercises, common problems, designing courses, entering competitions, and cross-country jumping.
Author: Mike Etherington-Smith Publisher: Kenilworth Press ISBN: 9780851318448 Category : Courses (Horse sports) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by an Olympic course designer, this is an indispensable guide for anyone involved in the design and construction of cross-country courses. Whether you are designing fences for use at home, planning a hunter trials or building an international course, you will find plenty of practical guidelines. For the competitor, the book provides a meaningful guide to the art of cross-country riding as seen from the designer's perspective. In recent years, there has been a marked change in the courses presented to the competitor: the fences are generally more imposing, the materials are bigger, and the courses are undoubtedly more technical. The responsibility of course designers has never been greater. Competitors expect a good product and they need to know that a course has been built to the safest possible standard. At the same time, the course designer must produce a course which is challenging to horse and rider. Mike Etherington-Smith writes about the theory of course design, siting of fences and use of natural features, fences and courses in general, distances, shapes and profiles of fences, design and construction of water obstacles, combinations and bounces. Basic advice about fence construction and the use of portable fences is included. The book includes fence-by-fence plans and descriptions for three sample courses to suit riders of differing abilities. These plans provide the reader with a fascinating insight to the art of course design. Incorporating the latest thoughts on course safety and illustrated throughout with line drawings by Christine Bousfield and photographs, this is the definitive work on the subject.
Author: John Bowen Publisher: David & Charles ISBN: 9780715319307 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
Improve your jumping technique with this uniquely visual guide for novice and experienced riders alike. Starting with preliminary training over ground poles it takes you through all stages of jumping training, including a safe jumping position, polework, and gridwork exercises, before moving on to the more complex work of jumping courses and cross-country jumping. Over 250 colour photographs illustrate from many different angles the points being made by the authors. The use of aerial shots and dynamically-sequenced photos give the book a unique edge.
Author: Hannah Weston
Author: Paul D. Cronin
Author: Hugh Morshead
Author: Wendy Murdoch
Author: Phillip Dutton
Author: Jack Le Goff
Author: Lesley Ward
Author: Mike Etherington-Smith
Author: John Bowen
Author: Eric Smiley