Western Practice Lessons: Ride Like a Champion, Improve Communication with Your Horse, Train in a Progressive Plan, Refine Your Performance (Horse Wise Guides) - Softcover
Synopsis
Make the most of your riding time. Charlene Strickland’s step-by-step lessons are full of tips, diagrams, and photographs that will help you achieve greater harmony with your horse as you refine your riding skills. Designed to help you efficiently perfect the fundamentals of Western riding — rhythm, relaxation and suppleness, readiness, engagement and impulsion, and straightness — you’ll learn to view each ride as an opportunity to improve the nuances of your horsemanship. Saddle up and start riding like a champion!
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About the Author
Author of The Basics of Western Riding, Western Practice Lessons, and Competing in Western Shows & Events, equestrian journalist Charlene Strickland has published more than 600 articles on horse care, saddlery, dressage, jumping, eventing, vaulting, and similar topics. Her articles have appeared in The Chronicle of the Horse, Horse Show, The Horse, and Dressage. Strickland is a member of the U.S. Dressage Federation, the International Alliance of Equestrian Journalists, the Authors Guild, and the Society for Technical Communication. She has ridden and shown Western, hunt seat, and dressage. She is a senior technical editor with Science Applications International Corporation and lives with her husband, Geoff, in New Mexico.
From the Back Cover
Master the Skills of Champion Western Riders!
Make the most of your riding time with Charlene Strickland's step-by-step lessons. Learn to play, perform, evaluate, and refine your skills as you perfect the Western riding fundamentals -- rhythm, relaxation and suppleness, readiness, engagement and impulsion, and straightness. Achieve greater harmony with your horse, strengthen your horse's performance, and have more fun and satisfaction riding than ever before. With Strickland's progressive plan, every ride becomes an opportunity to better your horsemanship while improving your horse.
In addition to providing clear step-by-step instructions, each of the 35 lessons includes:
* Time Frame -- for a most effective session
* Setup -- simply described and diagrammed for convenience
* Objective -- the overall goals of each lesson
* Benefits -- how each lesson improves your horse and your riding
Used in conjunction with instructor training or your own, the lessons in this book offer a complete course in Western riding. Saddle up!
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