Learning to Ride as an Adult : A New Training Method for First-Time Riders

by Erika Prockl

• ISBN13: 9781592286973
• ISBN10: 1592286976
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

A guide for adults who are serious about learning to ride for the first time, emphasizing loosening up and “swinging” with the horse’s movement.

Author Biography

ERIKA PROCKL is a teacher in further education and a certified riding instructor.
Not having learned to ride as a child but as an adult, she has personally experienced
the suffering of an adult novice rider, and learned from it.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
Battling with the urge to cling on	8	(6)
Upright is out, relaxed is in	14	(4)
About the spine	18	(5)
Wrong on every chair	23	(4)
Different people tense up differently	27	(3)
The slipped thoracic girdle	30	(3)
The secret of light hands	33	(5)
Emergency schooling aids	38	(3)
How does a horse move?	41	(4)
Swinging hips, let's move!	45	(6)
Something's happening down below	51	(6)
Light seat bones and muscles	57	(5)
``If it weren't a luxury ...''	62	(5)
Control	67	(6)
``Halt'' without the reins	73	(8)
The everyday and the rider's turn	81	(7)
Good extension is the way to bending	88	(8)
When the circle changes to an ellipse	96	(7)
A final step -- the canter	103	(11)
Freedom of the back -- the forward seat -- jumping	114	(9)
To round things off	123	(2)
Further Reading	125	(2)
Many thanks	127