Anne Kursinski's Riding

by KURSINSKI, ANNE

• ISBN13: 9780385474054
• ISBN10: 0385474059
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: DOUBLEDAY BOOKS

Summary

Anne Kursinski has been an outstanding international competitor for almost two decades, winning such coveted awards as the American Gold Cup, the Grands Prix of Aachen and Rome, the Pan American Games Individual Gold Medal, and an Olympic silver medal at Seoul, to name only a few. Today, Anne Kursinski is one of the most admired -- and most successful -- riders in the world. In recent years, while continuing to compete at the highest levels, she has also become one of the most sought-after instructors and clinicians in America. Now at last, this breakthrough book lays out in words and pictures the key elements of her riding techniques so that they can be studied and applied by any determined rider. Of special interest are Anne's secrets of analyzing jumper courses, and her strategies for riding them. Whether they aspire to ride hunters or jumpers or to compete in horsemanship over fences,Anne Kursinski's Riding And Jumping Clinicwill improve readers' chances of success as it takes them, step-by-step, all the way from basic flatwork and dressage through jumping at every level.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
George H. Morris
Introduction The Basics Behind the Basics	xiii
Part I Basic Flat Work
Chapter One
Why Flat Work?	3	(1)
A ``Feeling'' Preview	4	(1)
Assembling Your Equipment	4	(3)
Chapter Two
Mounting	7	(2)
Dismounting	9	(1)
Position at the Halt	9	(6)
Position in Motion	15	(2)
Chapter Three
Using Your Aids with Feeling	17	(1)
The Language of the Conversation	18	(1)
Transitions	19	(9)
Combining Aids the Basic Half-Halt	28	(2)
Conclusion	30	(1)
Chapter Four
Bending	31	(9)
Stride Length	40	(4)
Chapter Five
Influencing Lateral Movement	44	(8)
Riding a Course on the Flat	52	(1)
Final Thoughts on Basic Flat Work	52	(6)
Part II Basic Jumping
Chapter Six
Gauging Readiness	58	(1)
Attitude	59	(1)
Preliminaries	59	(1)
Equipment for Jumping	60	(2)
Schedule	62	(1)
Chapter Seven
Jumping Position	63	(4)
The Elements of Effective Jumping	67	(2)
Chapter Eight
Straight Line Over Rails on the Ground	69	(7)
Finding Stride Length	76	(4)
Jumping on a Curving Track	80	(1)
Circles Over Rails on the Ground	80	(7)
Straight Lines	87	(1)
Chapter Nine
Two Small Jumps on a Line	87	(6)
Diagonal and Bending Lines	93	(4)
Chapter Ten
Jumping on an Angle	97	(2)
A Short Course	99	(2)
A Gymnastic	101	(3)
An In-and-Out	104	(1)
Jumping Without Stirrups	105	(1)
Flying Changes	106	(5)
Part III Advanced Flat Work
Chapter Eleven
A New Level of Feeling	111	(1)
Keeping It Simple and Rewarding	112	(1)
Readiness Check	113	(3)
Your All-Important Attitude	116	(1)
Leg-Yield Review	117	(2)
Halt and Reinback	119	(4)
Shoulder-in	123	(6)
Chapter Twelve
Haunches-in	129	(4)
A Pause to Assess	133	(2)
Long and Low--a Stretching Exercise	135	(4)
Chapter Thirteen
Flexion and Collection	139	(1)
Transitions	140	(7)
Getting Used to a Show-Ring Pace	147	(5)
Chapter Fourteen
Advanced Turn on the Haunches	152	(2)
Shoulder-in at the Canter	154	(4)
Chapter Fifteen
Counter-Canter	158	(3)
Flying Changes	161	(7)
Half-Pass	168	(5)
Final Flat-Work Thoughts	173	(5)
Part IV Advanced Jumping
Chapter Sixteen
Riding Readiness Check	178	(2)
Mental Readiness	180	(2)
Improving Communication	182	(1)
Advanced Communication with Your Hands	182	(4)
Improving Communication Through Your Seat	186	(2)
Improving Communication with Your Eyes	188	(1)
Jumping Without Looking	188	(2)
Chapter Seventeen
Refining Your Sense of Distance	190	(1)
Advanced Counting	190	(2)
Counting Off Turns to Lines	192	(1)
Circles for Suppleness and ``Eyes''	193	(4)
Chapter Eighteen
About Fences	197	(2)
How to Ride All Types of Combinations	199	(1)
Two Oxers, Sixty-six Feet Apart	199	(3)
Oxer to Oxer to Vertical a Tight One-or Two-Stride-In-and-Out	202	(4)
Triple Bar to Two Verticals	206	(3)
Short to Long and Long to Short	209	(2)
Serpentine with Three Jumps	211	(3)
Three Jumps, Ridden as a Bending Line and a Straight Line	214	(4)
Chapter Nineteen
Cross-country Natural Jumps	218	(19)
Higher Fences	237	(17)
Part V Horsemanship
Chapter Twenty
Know Your Horse	254	(3)
Team Up with Vet and Farrier	257	(1)
Absorb Ideas but Selectively	258	(5)
Part VI Show Preparation
Chapter Twenty-one
At Home	263	(1)
Equipment	264	(1)
Before You Go to Jump or Not to Jump?	265	(1)
A Routine Jumping School	266	(2)
Final Thoughts Before Show Day	268	(1)
Chapter Twenty-Two
Show Day: Early Preparations	269	(1)
Learning the Course	270	(3)
Mental Preparation	273	(2)
Warming Up for Your Class	275	(1)
Performance Hints	276	(5)
Part VII Courses
Chapter Twenty-Three
Hunter Courses	281	(9)
Chapter Twenty-Four
Equitation Courses	290	(11)
Chapter Twenty-Five
Jumper Courses	301	(13)
Part VIII Goals
Chapter Twenty-Six
Make Sure Your Goals Make Sense	314	(1)
Think Backward to Plan Ahead	315	(1)
Stepping-Stone Goals	316	(1)
Goals to Keep You Going	317	(2)
Think Big	319	(2)
Index	321