101 Jumping Exercises for Horse & Rider

Author: Linda Allen
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 160342394X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Get jumping! This collection presents a logical series of fun and rewarding exercises that are designed to develop your horse-jumping skills. With straightforward instructions and clear arena maps, this guide can be hung on a pole and easily referenced from the saddle. In addition to clearly articulated goals and progressively difficult variations, each exercise also includes encouraging advice on what the rider should keep in mind while jumping. Saddle up and get ready to fly through the air with grace and confidence.

Geoff Teall on Riding Hunters, Jumpers and Equitation

Author: Geoff Teall
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
ISBN: 1570765154
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Discover how to increase the effectiveness of the time you spend in the saddle, whether you are a beginning hunt seat rider or a seasoned competitor. Geoff Teall—noted judge, trainer, and clinician—helps you put together an unbeatable package, including: Setting riding goals Finding the right horse and instructor Developing confidence and facing your fears Dressing for success in and out of the show ring Walking any course Seeing distances Jumping from a turn Angled jumps and end jumps Combinations, in-and-outs, and more Whether the first step on the road to a medal, or a tool to revitalize an experienced rider’s passion for the sport, this book will help you put the pieces together for that perfect, polished round.

Advanced Agility Workbook

Author: Bud Houston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780965399425
Category : Dog shows
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description

Ordering Disorder

Author: Khoi Vinh
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321713737
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
The grid has long been an invaluable tool for creating order out of chaos for designers of all kinds—from city planners to architects to typesetters and graphic artists. In recent years, web designers, too, have come to discover the remarkable power that grid-based design can afford in creating intuitive, immersive, and beautiful user experiences. Ordering Disorder delivers a definitive take on grids and the Web. It provides both the big ideas and the brass-tacks techniques of grid-based design. Readers are sure to come away with a keen understanding of the power of grids, as well as the design tools needed to implement them for the World Wide Web. Khoi Vinh is internationally recognized for bringing the tried-and-true principles of the typographic grid to the World Wide Web. He is the former Design Director for NYTimes.com, where he consolidated his reputation for superior user experience design. He writes and lectures widely on design, technology, and culture, and has published the popular blog Subtraction.com for over a decade. More information at grids.subtraction.com

City on a Grid

Author: Gerard Koeppel
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306822857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Winner of the 2015New York City Book Award The never-before-told story of the grid that ate Manhattan You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. This is its story. Praise for City on a Grid "The best account to date of the process by which an odd amalgamation of democracy and capitalism got written into New York's physical DNA."--New York Times Book Review "Intriguing...breezy and highly readable."--Wall Street Journal "City on a Grid tells the too little-known tale of how and why Manhattan came to be the waffle-board city we know."--The New Yorker "[An] expert investigation into what made the city special."--Publishers Weekly "A fun, fascinating, and accessible read for those curious enough to delve into the origins of an amazing city."--New York Journal of Books "Koeppel is the very best sort of writer for this sort of history."--Roanoke Times

The Grid

Author: Nick Cook
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473544335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
'A highly original, electrifying read' The Times 'A stylish, riveting thriller' Daily Mail 'An assured page-turner ... it combines action and foreign locations with big ideas a la Dan Brown' Sunday Times The US President Thompson has been dreaming of his own death. A repeating nightmare that hounds him night after night that he can't ignore: something tells him it's not just a dream, it feels too real. Thompson's doctor, military psychiatrist Josh Cain, is summoned to a church tower near the White House. He thinks he is there to talk down another suicidal ex-Marine. But the man he finds tells him of a plot to kill Thompson, revealing secrets he can't possibly have known - just seconds before a sniper's bullet takes him out . . . Battles have been fought man to man, then machine to machine, and even in cyberspace. But now there is a different battlefield emerging: human consciousness and the fight for our minds. What readers are saying: 'A classy, intelligent and reflective investigative thriller.' 'A layered plot, engaging characters and a spine chilling ring of truth to the plot, which lured me in and kept me trapped until the final page.' 'A real page turner with plenty of surprises and twists. Great read.' 'THE BEST BOOK THAT I'VE READ ALL YEAR!'

Jump Course Design Manual

Author: Susan D. Tinder
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
ISBN: 9781570765605
Category : Architecture and recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An entire profession is devoted to designing and building jump courses, but now it can be a little easier to create your own show-quality course at home! This highly illustrated instruction manual explains--with the aid of hundreds of color photos, diagrams, and tables--the jump components used in different horse show divisions, how course designers select the tracks to be followed, and what factors make a course more or less difficult to ride. This book is essential for anyone who wants to better understand the concepts of course design and is a valuable training aid for those looking for inspiration when schooling or teaching riders at home. Includes 52 full course designs, 15 short courses, 35 gymnastic exercise set-ups, and 15 grid lines.

Jumping from A to Z EBook

Author:
Publisher: Dogwise Publishing
ISBN: 1888119055
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
Safe as well as spectacular jumping is a key component of many dog sports. Combine the agility know-how of Julie Daniels (Enjoying Dog Agility #DTA111) and the conditioning expertise of veterinarian Christine Zink and you get a ""must-have"" book for your training library.

Poles and Gridwork

Author: Jane Wallace
Publisher: Threshold Picture Guide
ISBN: 9781872082448
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 24

Book Description
This illustrated guide provides straightforward advice on using poles and gridwork in order to improve a horse's suppleness, balance, strength and agility. It covers riding over poles, lungeing over poles, simple grids, exercises with bounces, jumping at an angle and turning exercises.

BrainGymJr: 30 Day Challenge Workbook I (Age 6-7 yrs)

Author: BrainGymJr
Publisher: BrainGymJr
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
The BrainGymJr 30 Day Challenge is a work book for children between the ages of 6 & 7. It comes with 30 question sets that cover English, Math and Real World (G.K) concepts. Each question set has its answers on the next page. Each set is thoughtfully crafted to challenge and develop your child's cognitive skills. Practice daily for an entire month to make learning a habit and get smarter. Complete the BrainGymJr 30 Day Challenge and start building your child's IQ! BrainGymJr is a child development initiative that supplements a parent's effort to engage with children and sharpen their logic, reasoning, language and math's skills with simple real-life examples from our own environment. We endeavor to help every child through a daily dose of simple and fun exercise with real-world scenarios which are age appropriate and aligned with learning objectives. BrainGymJr offers customized brain games & audio stories on Mathematics, English and Real-World skills. Children enjoy learning with over 16+ gamified fun formats including crosswords, MCQ's, match the columns, grid questions & audio stories with fresh, customized content every weekday! With BrainGymJr, just 15 minutes of daily brain exercises helps open a child's mind through application and problem-solving to reinforce the concepts learned in school.