Ride with Your Mind Essentials; Innovative Learning Strategies for Basic Riding Skills

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• ISBN13: 9781570762444
• ISBN10: 1570762449
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books

Summary

Mary Wanless simplifies her unique Ride With Your Mind teaching methods and provides learning strategies that can transform average riders into talented equestrians. The basic skills of riding are broken down into 'bite-size chunks' with easy-to-follow guidelines, tests and exercises to ensure success. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mary Wanless is known throughout the world for Ride with Your Mind method. Her previous titles include The Natural Rider, Ride with Your Mind, For the Good of the Horse, and For the Good of the Rider, plus eight videos. She teaches regularly in the U.S. but makes her home in Oxon, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- How to Use This Book	9	(4)
The Basic Position -- Alignment	13	(9)
The Essential Connection -- Seat Bones	22	(6)
Sitting Still in the Saddle -- Plugging in	28	(6)
Security, Strength and Power -- Bear Down	34	(8)
Breathing -- How to Bear Down and Breathe	42	(5)
Firming up the Body -- Muscle Tone, and the Learning Process	47	(9)
Sitting Lightly -- Supporting Your Own Bodyweight	56	(8)
Using the Back -- Narrowness (The `Pinch')	64	(7)
Turns and Circles Demystified -- An Introduction to Steering	71	(10)
Leg, Leg, Leg? -- Lower Legs, the Physical Challenge	81	(10)
Discovering a Contact -- Contact and the Walk/Halt Transitions	91	(12)
An Independent Seat -- Matching the Forces Acting on Your Body	103	(11)
On the Bit? -- Shaping the Horse	114	(13)
The Rider/Horse Partnership -- An Overview of the Rider/Horse Interaction	127	(6)
Resources -- Addresses, Books, Videos, and Equipment	133	(2)
Glossary -- Ride with Your Mind Terms	135	(7)
Index	142