More How Your Horse Wants You to Ride

Gincy Self Bucklin

Description

Techniques to help riders fine-tune their communication and riding skills

This follow-up to How Your Horse Wants You to Ride helps intermediate to advanced riders improve their communication with their mounts and polish their overall riding skills. Readers get a complete tutorial–much of which can be found nowhere else–on taking their riding skills to the next level.
Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: What’s in the Book, Where It Came from, Why You Need to Know It.

PART I: Building Trust Through Ground Work.

1 The Stone Horse: Working in the Barn.

2 The Following Horse: Moving Around the Farm.

3 The Floating Horse: Playing in the Arena.

PART II Riding So Your Horse Likes It Too.

4 Clothing, Tack, and Mounting: Starting Out Right Is the Key.

5 Make Yourselves Comfortable: Sitting on the Horse Without Stirrups.

6 Making Conversation: Listening as Well as Talking.

7 The Quiet Aids: Making Yourself Heard Without Shouting.

8 Reins Without Borders: Giving Up Control and Developing Soft Hands.

PART III Setting Out into the Real World.

9 Stirrup Stuff: Sitting or Standing, Be Solid and Secure.

10 Rein Effects: Looking at Rein Aids from a Different Angle.

11 Hills and Cavaletti: Preparing for the Great Outdoors,

12 The Real Fun Begins: Cantering and Galloping.

13 Jumping Made Easy: The Half Seat Revisited.

14 More About Jumping: Getting There Is Half the Fun.

15 Cheerful Confidence: Going Where You Want to Go, Effortlessly.

Afterword: It All Comes Down to You.

Appendix A: Making and Fitting a Neck Strap.

Appendix B: Useful Knots.

Appendix C: Resources.

Index.

Sujets

• Animal Sports
• horses
• Sports
• Equestrian
• Recreation
• Sport équestre
• Sports équestres
• Sports équestres
• Sports équestres

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 06 août 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780470244623
• Langue: English

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M ORE H OW Y OUR H ORSE W ANTS Y OU TO R IDE
Also by Gincy Self Bucklin:
How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Starting Out-Starting Over
What Your Horse Wants You to Know: What Horses Bad Behavior Means and How to Correct It
M ORE H OW Y OUR H ORSE W ANTS Y OU TO R IDE
Advanced Basics: The Fun Begins
GINCY SELF BUCKLIN
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Bucklin, Gincy Self.
More how your horse wants you to ride : advanced basics-the fun begins / Gincy Self Bucklin.
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Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-9914-9 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0-7645-9914-3 (cloth)
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To all the patient horses and students who bore with me over the many years during which I struggled to learn my trade. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
There is only one kind of mistake, that is, the fundamental mistake. Regardless of how advanced the exercise, if the performance is defective, one can directly trace that fault to a lack in the fundamental training of either the horse or the rider.
-Erik Herbermann
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What s in the Book, Where It Came from, Why You Need to Know It
PART I
Building Trust Through Ground Work
1
The Stone Horse
Working in the Barn
2
The Following Horse
Moving Around the Farm
3
The Floating Horse
Playing in the Arena
PART II
Riding So Your Horse Likes It Too
4
Clothing, Tack, and Mounting
Starting Out Right Is the Key
5
Make Yourselves Comfortable
Sitting on the Horse Without Stirrups
6
Making Conversation
Listening as Well as Talking
7
The Quiet Aids
Making Yourself Heard Without Shouting
8
Reins Without Borders
Giving Up Control and Developing Soft Hands
PART III
Setting Out into the Real World
9
Stirrup Stuff
Sitting or Standing, Be Solid and Secure
10
Rein Effects
Looking at Rein Aids from a Different Angle
11
Hills and Cavaletti
Preparing for the Great Outdoors
12
The Real Fun Begins
Cantering and Galloping
13
Jumping Made Easy
The Half Seat Revisited
14
More About Jumping
Getting There Is Half the Fun
15
Cheerful Confidence
Going Where You Want to Go, Effortlessly
Afterword
It All Comes Down to You
Appendix A
Making and Fitting a Neck Strap
Appendix B
Useful Knots
Appendix C
Resources
Index
Preface
Horse and rider together on a beautiful fall day, galloping through fields and over fences, totally relaxed and happy, both of them having a wonderful time!
That is every horse s and every rider s dream. The details might vary a bit- for one pair, the scene might be the dressage ring at Devon, for another, a 100- mile competitive trail ride-but what is important is that, whatever they are doing, both rider and horse are having the time of their lives.
The question is, how can you make that dream come true? Time and money are certainly factors, but there is more to it than that. We have all seen the overmounted rider on her expensive-and angry-horse, being taken for a ride in the show ring or the hunt field, and it s not the ride she had in mind.
In my earlier book How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Starting Out - Starting Over , we explored the skills you need to ride comfortably at the walk and trot, and perhaps a little canter, on a horse who already knows what to do and just needs to have his rider keep out of the way and allow him to do it. Many riders, especially those with many commitments and little time, are very content to remain at that level. They can ride with their friends, and perhaps participate in hunter paces or small shows. Lots of fun for everyone and not too much work.
But there are others for whom riding becomes the major passion. They can never ride enough or know enough. If you are one of those riders, this book is intended for you! While there are many great horsemen doing advanced work effortlessly, for all too many riders seeking to reach advanced levels the process seems to be a painful struggle. In most if not all of these cases, the trouble results from the lack of a strong foundation and a lack of understanding of the reasons why we do what we do. Horses are generally very cooperative animals by nature, but like all of us, if their work is uncomfortable-even painful-and confusing, they become seemingly uncooperative, either because they don t understand or because they are unable to respond to the rider s wishes. And nobody is having any fun.
With a few notable exceptions, books offered for the more advanced rider are concerned almost entirely with work at the advanced level, while books that focus on the basics are usually directed at the novice. However, as every truly skilled horseman knows, it is the lack of understanding of basic skills that leads to failure at the advanced level. No matter how well trained the horse, if the rider is making fundamental mistakes in her riding the horse will not be able to perform consistently well. Further, the lack of a solid foundation is the major reason why riders lose confidence, both in themselves and in their horses.
The fortunate few may either luck into a horse who forgives their mistakes or be able to afford the horses and the trainers to fix their problems. But for the rest of the world, especially those who are forced to work alone or with a minimum of exposure to lessons or clinics, this book will fill a great gap. Each horsehandling or riding skill is described carefully, the need for it explained clearly, and the techniques for successfully learning it demonstrated in depth with both text and illustrations. In many cases, especially for the more basic skills, the work in this book is covered in much greater depth in the earlier volume. Where appropriate, there will be chapter references to that book so you can find what you need if you want to know more.
We will also see how each skill lays a foundation for others, so you can clearly understand how work on your basic skills will improve your overall riding and eventually improve your horse as well. My goal in writing this book and its predecessor was to provide the reader with all the tools she needs to build a strong foundation. From this foundation she can go on in the discipline of her choice, with every likelihood of success.
As in the previous volume, in the interests of clarity the horse is always referred to as he and the rider as she -an idea for which I am indebted to Mary Wanless. I apologize to any male riders or female horses who may be offended.
Gincy Self Bucklin
Narragansett, R.I., July 2005
Acknowledgments
Since this book is a continuation of the previous volume, acknowledgments are due to many of the same people for its existence. Among them are Brigit Van Loggem, who insisted on it; Pat Snell, my agent, who made it happen; Karen Hayes, my daughter, who kept up my courage; and Beth Adelman, my editor, who keeps me from making