Simplify Your Riding: Step-By-Step Techniques to Improve Your Riding Skills

by Wendy Murdoch, Sally Swift (Foreword by)

This step-by-step how-to book for equestrians of all disciplines offers an illustrated, easy-to-follow series of progressive horseback riding lessons.

Genres: Horses

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2004

Reviews

[Dark-Draco · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was pleasantly surprised by how good this book was. The author is not someone that I have heard off, being based in America, and the books deals with a lot of Western ridden technique, but it was clearly written, was illustrated well and dealt with a lot of the basics that a rider needs to know before becoming a good rider. A lot of teh first chapters dealt with posture, balance and the way in which a rider needs to sit on the horse, and why this should be as it is. There were plenty of excellent exercises to help correct problems and I picked up numerous tips along the way. The rest of the book was about how to influence the horse and when, how to develop that illusive 'feel' and where to start looking when things go wrong. A fab read, glad I picked it up.