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Improving Performance by Birgit van Damsen
We have probably all ridden a 'lazy' horse during our riding lives, we may own a horse that isn't forward thinking. This can drive a rider to distraction, when everything you try seems to fail. This books covers the possible causes for lack of motivation from physical problems, feeding or a too demanding time table and offers clear precise solutions that can help in seemingly hopeless situations.
Clear and easy to read.
Price: £9.95
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Free Jumping by Claudia Götzy
The art of free jumping is rapidly becoming a more and more popular training and exercise method. Free jumping encourages freedom of movement, increases muscular strength and improves co-ordination as well as jumping technique.
This book will not only show you how to free jump your horse correctly and safely but also how to develop an eye for the horse's general improvement. Clear illustrations throughout.
Price: £14.95
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Horse Sense and Horsemanship by Linda Weritz
Most riders will encounter problems with their horse from time to time, sometimes we will try to solve our problems by turning to an instructor or an alternative therapist.
This can often cure a problem for a short time but in the long term things can become problematic again.
This book will explain how you can form a relationship with your horse, through gaining your horses trust and forming a small herd relationship with him.
This book takes you through all the steps of becoming a successful leader with things such as the challenges, energy transfer and much more.
Price: £14.95
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The Art and Science of Clicker Training for Horses by Ben Hart
Clicker training has been described as an exciting, effective and positive form of training for your horse.
Ben Hart explains in this book the origins of clicker training and its use with dogs and marine animals and its use in the equestrian world.
Clicker training can help you correct bad behaviour, reward and teach new 'tricks', build confidence in both horse and rider, help you to understand your horse better and allow your horse to understand you better as well as helping to build a better bond between you and your horse.
This book should be used as a guide to clicker training, Ben Hart has written this book not to dictate how it should be done, but to guide you through the techniques so that you can adapt them to your own style.
Price: £15.00
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Ride Horses With Awareness And Feel by Tineke and Joep Bartles
Have you ever wanted to just 'sit back, relax and enjoy the ride' instead of constantly checking your seat and your position on your horse?
With the aid of this book and a bit of practice now you can. The book works on the principal that if your horse is happy you will be happy and produce better results as a team. This book provides you with all the relevant information you will need to produce fantastic dressage results, set out in a clear and easy to understand way with full colour photographs to compliment.
Price: £19.99
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100 ways to improve your horse's schooling by Susan McBane
Susan McBane
A colourful easy book for the everyday horse owner.
100 ideas on how to create a simple schooling method.
How to communicate using classical principles, perform exercises for suppleness and balance and structure your training program to reach your personal goals.
Price: £19.99
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100 Ways to Improve Your Riding by Susan McBane
Susan McBane
Simple and effective advice on common riding problems in an easy to understand trouble shooter. Chapters include the seat and weight, hands and arms, shoulders and back, schooling techniques, mental approach and many more helpful tips.
Price: £19.99
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100 % Horse by Michael Peace and Lesley Bayley
Michael Peace and Lesley Bayley
How to create the go-anywhere, do-anything horse.
teach your horse to accept strange objects, overcome problems with handling. leading and riding.
Step-by-step advice on a wide range of 'hang-ups'.
Price: £19.99
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101 Exercises from Top Riders by Jaki Bell
A Masterclass of 101 exercises from twelve of the best riders and trainers from the worlds of dressage, jumping and eventin, this book contains the winning formula of Jaki Bell's bestseller, 101 schooling exercises with the additional benefit of a range of top advice from the experts.
Whether your goal is competitive success, or you are simply looking for inspiration to improve your schooling, this anothology of exercises has something great to offer.
Price: £19.99
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101 Horsemanship Exercises by Rio Barrett
Rio Barrett
With clear diagrams and easy to follow illustrations this book aims to help improve your groundwork and ridden skills by improving your horses confidence, understanding and obedience.
Price: £19.99
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101 Schooling Exercises by Jaki Bell and Andrew Day
Compiled by Jaki Bell with Andrew Day
Celebrity exercises contributed by Pippa Funnell, Tim Stockdale, Sylvia Loch, Mary King and many more.
Fully illustrated diagramatic exercises with tips on riding them correctly and trouble shooter pointers. Exercises range from simple circles and serpintines to half pass, collection and lengthening and flying change.
Paperback
Price: £12.99
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ABC of Breaking and Schooling Horses by Josephine Knowles
Josephine Knowles FBHS
A comprehensive guide to producing happy, willing and obedient horses and ponies; with the emphasis on tact, sympathy and safety, the author, explains the art of breaking and schooling from foal to first competition.
REPRINTING
Price: £19.99
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An Introduction to Sports Physiology by Martin R. Farrally and National Coaching Foundation
Sports Coach UK
A workbook for human physiology- concentrating on muscle use, oxygen transport, coping with exercise and energy systems all applicable to the leisure or competitive rider.
Price: £14.99
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Applying Psychology To Sport by Barbara Woods
Barbara Woods
An introduction to aspects of psychological knowledge and their application to sports through examples and research.
Interesting for anyone involved in any type of sport either as a coach, participant or anyone wishing to learn and understand techniques for improving performance and teaching skills.
Price: £10.99
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A Sports Psychology Workbook For Riders by Ann S. Reilly
Ann s Reilly
Become a confident relaxed rider by learning mental strategies to overcome nerves or fear whether at home, during training or in competition. This books covers motivation, concentration, nutrition for peak performance and strategies to prepare you for all disciplines.
Price: £15.99
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Art of Long Reining by Sylvia Stanier
Sylvia Stanier
This classic treatise is an indispensable schooling aid to those who wish to train their own horse. It contains detailed advice on fitting equipment, handling the reins and familiarising the horse through a series of simple basic exercises. The book professes to the teaching of extension and collection and advanced movements such as flying changes, piaffe and passage.
Price: £6.95
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Art of Lungeing by Sylvia Stanier
Sylvia Stanier
This invaluable book is a standard work on the subject. It explains the importance of lungeing in the basic training of young horses, describes its usefulness in re-schooling older horses and discusses its value for exercising. Practical advice on fitting and application of equipment.
Price: £6.95
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Back To Work by Lucinda Dyer
Lucinda Dyer
This in depth book offers advice from 11 different veterinarians and equine professionals on how to approach getting your horse back into work after having time off for either an injury or simply reconditioning after a period of inactivity.
find in depth explanations of current medical procedures, recommended therapies, and detailed week by week plans for successfully bringing a horse back from extended lay off.
Also includes 6 riders accounts of how they got back in the saddle after serious injuries and their recovery programs.
Price: £19.99
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Basic Training of the Young Horse by Reiner Klimke
Reiner and Ingrid Klimke
Systematic preparation gives a good foundation as a basis for later specialisation. Handling of the foal, lungeing, backing and first ridden work are all covered in this illustrated book.
Price: £19.99
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BodySense by Vernon Coleman
Sally Tottle
In a simple, stress free way the author helps riders to improve their posture and achieve a correct, classical position. Uses the Alexander Technique. Simple and fun to learn.
Price: £17.95
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Bombproof Your Horse by Rick Pelicano and Lauren Tjaden
Sgt. Rick Pelicano
Teach your horse to be confident, obedient and safe no matter what you encounter.
Bombproof him with anything from smoke bombs, to rubbish and balloons.
This well produced highly colourful book takes you through basic training concepts, bombproofing concepts, working from the ground, dealing with bad habits and a bombproofing day.
Price: £19.99
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Building Self Confidence
Sports Coach UK
helpful guide to mental skills training,. How to profile the performer and introduce self confidence with goal setting, positive thinking, imagery and self talk. Also includes time set activities to help with aims of performance.
Price: £9.99
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Buying and Reschooling ex-Racehorses by Christopher Coldrey and Victoria Coldrey
Christopher and Victoria Coldrey
A fully illustrated book with practical advise on understanding the Thoroughbred, finding your horse, assessing conformation, planning an effective training programme, working over poles and further training.
Price: £14.99
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Clinton Anderson's Downunder Horsemanship by Clinton Anderson and Ami Hendrickson
Clinton Anderson
Establishing respect for English and Western riders.
Stop excusing your horse for not listening and teach him to think for himself before reacting. Expand your horses comfort area and learn to assume the leadership role. To be a leader is not a bully.
Price: £19.95
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Coaching Children In Sport by Martin Lee
Principles and Practice- edited by Martin Lee
Children have different capabilities and needs when competing in sport to that of an adult, whether it is at school or internationally level. Therefore the coach/teacher must understand the nature of children. This book fills the gap between theory and practice and why children are not mini adults. Also includes training programmes, treating injuries and healthy eating in sport.
Price: £32.99
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Coaching Practice
Andy Miles
Sports Coach UK
How to get started , the roles of a coach, planning and delivering effective coaching sessions.
Price: £9.99
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Coaching Skills for Riding Teachers by Islay Auty
Islay Auty
This book is ideal for anyone training to become an instructor as well as anyone who is already an instructor. The book explains how modern coaching can be applied to equestrian sport and so the book focuses more on the skills of coaching than how to teach the skills of riding. The book can be applied to any kind of coaching, from grand prix dressage riders to children just starting out.
With helpful hints and tips as well as review summaries throughout.
Price: £16.95
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Connecting With Horses by Margrit Coates
Margrit Coates
You will explore the key lessons that we can learn from the magnificent animal that is the horse.
Black & White pictures throughout.
Paperback version
Price: £14.99
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Complete Horse Riding Manual by William Micklem
Cover's Showjumping, Cross country and dressage for the novice or advanced rider This handbook is packed with information and advice from leading equestrian coach Wiliam Micklem.
Price: £25.00
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Complete Performance Horse - paperback by Colin Vogel
Colin Vogel
Written by a well respected vet this book offers advice on feeding, fitness, lameness and preventive medicine for all performance horses.
In-depth sections on health and the immune system, getting your horse fit, training and measuring fitness, feeding for performance and when things go wrong, lameness investigation for all types of injuries and problems.
Price: £12.99
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Correct Movement In Horses - Improving Straightness & Balance by Klaus Schoneich and Gabriele Rachen-Schoneich
Gabriele Rachen-Schoneich & Klaus Schoneich
In this fantastic book you are taken through how crookedness in the horse can cause most common problems such as Tension, Imbalance, Joint Problems, Disobedience and much more.
With the help of this book you can learn how to use Schoneichs' unique 'straightness training' to permanently correct your horses way of going in a very short space of time.
With glowing testimonials from riders who thought they would never be able to ride their horses again for reasons such bad behaviour or health problems.
Also includes advice from vets, dentists, a farrier and a master saddler.
Diagrams and colour photographs throughout.
Price: £19.95
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Creating A Safe Coaching Environment
UKCC
This pack is a practical guide to health and safety and risk management in coaching.
It will provide coaches of all levels, employers and deployers of coaches with adequate background knowledge to help them ensure a safe coaching environment.
This is intended as a guide only and not a substitute for professional legal advice if this is needed.
Price: £9.99
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Cross Train Your Horse - Vol. 1
Jane Savoie
Simple Dressage for Every Horse, Every Sport. Jane Savoie shows how all riders and horses, in all disciplines (from western riding to eventing) can benefit from basic dressage training that emphasises forwardness, straightness, rhythm, contact, transitions and elementary lateral work.
Price: £18.95
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Dancing With Horses by Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
The idea behind this book stems from the authors comparison to his work with dancing, where two being read one another's body language to move together in harmony, In this book you will find exercises to practice with your horse, easy to read text and over 400 colour photographs.
Price: £19.99
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Equine Sports Coaching by Alison Lincoln
Alison Lincoln
A vital book for equine coaches. Drawing on tried-and-tested coaching practices used successfully in other sports, this book provides an introduction to coaching specific to the equine environment. The coaching process as a whole is addressed for both the horse and rider.
Please note this book will not be available until May 2008.
Price: £22.99
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Equitation for the Everyday Rider by Leonie M. Marshall
Leonie Marshall
Aimed at the progressive school of both horse and rider, contents include the learning environment, correct positioning, using aids, suppleness and balance, movements and exercises, roadwork and schooling for jumping.
Price: £15.98
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Essential Exercises For Training Horses by Sally OConnor
Sally O'Connor
This book is designed for the progressive training of horses from young stock and early training through to piaffe and passage.
Some of the exercises are specific to be used when solving temporary problems or issues where as others are used to lead to more advanced movements when the horse develops strength and balance.
Colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
Price: £22.95
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Everyday Jumping by Melissa Troup
Melissa Troup BA, BHSII
An everyday training book incorporating training on the flat, over poles and jumps. A useful book for riders and instructors taking group or individual lessons and includes exercises to help with jumping style of horse and rider, rushing horses and how to get clear rounds with good style. Also incorporates indoor cross-country training and course building.
Includes colour photographs and diagrams an excellent compliment to Themed lesson plans.
Price: £14.95
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Exercise School For Horse & Rider by Lesley Skipper
Lesley Skipper
The aim of this book is to help those who wish to progress in their riding skills as well as getting the most from their horse in return. Includes guidelines on equipment, in hand work and exercises for you to try.
Full colour pictures and illustrations throughout.
Price: £17.99
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Fitness, Performance and the Female Equestrian by Mary D. Midkiff
Mary D Midkiff
Devoted specifically to the needs of the female rider, this is an all discipline, all-breed approach to improving the performance of the female rider and her horse, signalling key points in health, fitness, nutrition, safety and comfort.
Price: £24.99
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For the Good of the Rider by Mary Wanless
Mary Wanless
Another Mary Wanless landmark in riding literature, presenting the reader with a 'map' of riding, explaining its basic biomechanical principles. Chapters on learning, sports psychology, dismounted exercise and bodywork expand the ideas put forward in Ride with your Mind.
Price: £19.95
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From Birth to Backing by Richard Maxwell and Johanna Sharples
Richard Maxwell with Johanna Sharples
Give your horse a head start in Life by using appropriate body language, from the initial 'join up' right through to early ridden work.
Chapters include earlylearning, adolescence, backing and riding, Hacking hazards and much more.
Price: £14.99
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From Flatwork To Jumping by Anne-Katrin Hagen
Anne-Katrin Hagen.
Colourful easy to follow guide. Practical advice on the first steps of jumping. Includes work over cavaletti and basic exercises using poles. Also offers advice on your first showjumping round.
Price: £4.95
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From Warming Up To Cooling Down by Susan McBane
Susan McBane
Horses can be made or broken by the way they are warmed up or cooled down. A lot of people don't realise how important these two things are. In this book you are shown what the consequences can be of not warming up or cooling down to your horses physical health as well as mental health. In an easy to follow way you are shown exactly how to effectively carry out warming up, working in and warming down.
Price: £19.99
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Fundamentals of Free Lungeing by James P. McCall, Stephen A. Mackenzie, Laurie Mackenzie, and Denise Grexer
Stephen A MacKenzie PHD
Learn how to communicate with your horse in the "language" your horse understands best. Through this mutual understanding, you can develop a new and exciting relationship perhaps never before experienced.
Price: £16.95
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Fundamentals of Riding by Charles Harris
Charles Harris
A bright new edition of this standard illustrated text which sets out basic principles, combining the best of traditional, classical techniques with those of the present day. The official manual of the Association of British Riding Schools.
Price: £9.95
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Getting Horses Fit by Carolyn Henderson
Carolyn Henderson
To perform a job well, whether that is eventing, dressage, showjumping, endurance or any other equine discipline, a horse must be in good shape. This book provides details on exactly what that means as well as how you can work out your own individual fitness programme to suit you and your horse.
Price: £19.99
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Groundwork Training For Your Horse by Lesley Bayley
This exciting new book has a range of different training techniques including intelligent horsemanship, parelli, long reining, Think Equus, Lungeing, Positive Horse Magic TTEAM & In-hand work which will all help you improve your horses suppleness, obedience and education from the ground.
Colour pictures throughout.
Price: £12.99
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Guidelines For The Training Of The Young Horse 2005
British Breeding Young-Horse Training Working Group 2005
A handy booklet including the scales of training, work for the foal, 2, 3 and 4 year old.
Price: £3.00
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Hacking Out Safely by Birgit van Damsen
Birgit Van Damsen
Safety tips for horse and rider and how to train and expose your horse to situations you may experience out and about, whilst at home.
A helpful interesting guide to hacking and riding out, includes preliminary first aid, problem horses and safety tips.
Price: £4.95
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Healing Horses The Classical Way by Harry Chaim Faibish
Harry Chaiom Faibish - has studied under Nuno Oliveiro and Hans Riegler amoung others.
Remedial Training For the Damaged Horse.
How to go back to classical training and upheave deep rooted traumas from the horses' previous training. How to fix the 'quick fix' and provide guidance for all who wish to retrain the disadvantaged inappropriatly trained horses. Includes case studies and some autobiographical sections.
Price: £25.00
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Horse And Rider Fitness by Linda Purves
Linda J Purves
The essential guide for all riders.
No gym required fitness exercises for horse and rider. Comprehensive training programmes catering for all levels from beginner to competitive riding. Also healthy eating, injury prevention and the '10 minute stable workout'.
Price: £19.95
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Horse Riding In A Weekend- The easy way to learn ride by Jane Holderness-Roddam
Jane Holderness-Roddam
Learn the basic principles of riding. Discover how to communicate with your horse and get the right reactions.
Follow the clear step by step instructions from mastering paces, improving your technique and learning to jump.
This book starts with getting to know your horse: catching,leading, grooming and tacking up.Then from there the basics of how to get on, go, stop and steer through all the paces. Also includes pole work, jumping and western riding.
Price: £14.99
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Horse Rider's Problem Solver by Vanessa Britton
Vanessa Britton
This problem-solving guide examines over 200 problems and deals with all aspects of the required solution, highlighting the necessary steps to achieve the desired outcome. Photographs and illustrations give added clarity to the explanation given.
Price: £16.98
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How to Create the perfect Riding Horse by Perry Wood
Perry Wood
This book is an honest and encouraging guide for everyone who wishes their horse could be the perfect riding horse. This book gives a step-by-step guide for training the horse and rider, and gives help and advice on how to create the perfect riding horse for any discipline or level of ability.
This book also gives advice and tips when choosing the "right" horse, and mastering the basics, lateral work and introducing jumping.
Colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
Price: £19.99
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How To Keep Your Horse Calm And Relaxed
Renate Ettl
Techiniques for hacking, schooling and competing, with tips for dealing with scary obstacles
An easy read and full of photographs and common sense tips. A great book for helping your horse to trust be confident whatever the situation. Ideas for equipment, exercises and how to avoid accidents.
Price: £9.95
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Invisible Riding by Sylvia Loch
Invisible Riding by Sylvia Loch. This book is all about teaching people to feel for themselves, so often the missing factor in many riding lessons. This book tells of a more balnced and controlled way of riding all achieved through co-operation and partnership rather than force and restraint. Every rider who ask's the question "What next?" this book provides the answer. Written in a format that is easy to understand, its the book your horse would want to read!
Price: £12.99
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It's Not Just About The Ribbons by Jane Savoie
Jane Savoie.
Conquer fear, insecurity, impatience, tension, doubt, distraction,pessimism and moodiness with the help of this very readable motivational tool.
With the help of case studies this book is insightful and motivational, helping with goal setting and attitude adjustments.
Price: £19.99
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Learning to Ride as an Adult by Erika Prockl
Loosening-Up - Swinging - Rotation 1. A new training method for first time riders. Usual daily stress means adults and adolecents often adopt tensed up faulty postures which have a negative effect on the horse. Here is a modern riding manual with a new training concept designed to counteract the problem. This book should be required reading for every riding instructor and adult novice rider.
Price: £16.95
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Learning To Ride As An Adult. - Part 2
Erika Prockl
A follow on from volume 1 this book covers loosening up the horse and rider.
The movements for Novice and elementary tests, lateral movements and how to correct common faults when learning further riding techniques are just some of the points covered.
Also explained are fluent transitions, crookedness, stretching, rein back and gymnastic exercises.
Price: £16.95
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Learn to Ride Using Sports Psychology by Petra Holzel and Wolfgang Holzel
Petra and Wolfgang Holzel
Explains how to overcome fear, focus the mind and greatly enhance learning skills enabling both the novice and experienced rider to achieve rapid and successful progress. An exciting new approach to learning to ride revealed through simple explanations and numerous illustrations by two trainers of world renown.
Price: £16.95
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Learn to Ride with The British Horse Society by Islay Auty
Islay Auty. A guide to the basic skills of horsemanship, as taught in the BHS approved riding schools. This book aims to support the early lessons you will recieve at a BHS Approved riding school. It offers advice and know-how on the skills you will need, from the very first steps through to riding independently in walk, trot and canter, and introducing jumping and hacking.
Price: £16.95
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Less than Perfect Horse by Jane Wallace and Fiona Silver
Jane Wallace
Useful as a training guide, dealing with schooling the horse and the problems encountered. Easily understood.
Price: £14.95
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Let's Ride! with Linda Tellington Jones by Linda Tellington-Jones; Andrea Pabel
Fun and Teamwork with your horse or pony
At last a riding book with a difference-and one that's sure to make your pony smile! World famous horse expert Linda Tellington-Jones describes her very special riding and handling techniques to provide simply the most fun you can have with your pony - on and off his back.
Price: £14.95
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Long Reining- The Correct Approach by Alfons Dietz and Daniela Bolze
Alfons Dietz and Daniela Bolze.
This invaluable technique is often used for training horses and is well explained and illustrated in this helpful guide.
Price: £4.95
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Long Reining- The Saumur Method by Philippe Karl
Philippe Karl.
Inspiringly illustrated, this is a practical training manual for all those wishing to be acquainted with schooling from the ground. Including work for young horses and basic schooling to lateral work and jumping.
Price: £19.99
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Lungeing
German National Equestrian Federation
Lungeing offers practical advice on equipment including side reins, the Chambon and the Gogue, correct lungeing techniques and how to improve collection with work in hand.
Price: £9.95
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Lungeing - Be Safe And Proficient by Angelika Schmelzer
Angelika Schmelzer
A colourful easy read guide to lungeing. Contents include where to lunge and what you need, lungeing aids and basics, lungeing young horses and problems and solutions.
Price: £4.95
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Lungeing The Rider For A Perfect Seat by Linda Benedik
Linda Benedik
Riding on the lunge is a proven way to enhance your riding skills. Following this book, which is written not only for the rider but the instructor and the lungeur, will help you to develop self-control while the lungeur develops horse control. You will discover your strengths and weaknesses in the saddle and learn how to improve on them.
Includes 46 mounted suppling exercises as well as showing you how to choose the right horse, outfit correctly and cue him with stance and lunge whip.
Photographs throughout.
Price: £18.99
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Making The Young Horse The Rational Way by Elwyn Hartley Edwards
Elwyn Hartley Edwards
This book offers a sensible and practical guide to training and breaking horses so they can become useful, well educated and free from mental and physical problems throughout their working life.
Clear instructions, colour photographs and illustrations throughout.
Price: £19.99
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Maximise Your Horsemanship
Richard Maxwell
In this book you will be able to follow the clear and well explained instructions to help you become a trainer and not just a rider to your horse.
Learn how some key steps can help dramatically affect the way your horse works and wants to work.
Colour pictures throughout
Price: £14.99
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Natural Horsemanship by Parelli
Pat Parelli
The six keys to a natural horse-human relationship: attitude, knowledge, tools, techniques, time, imagination. Pats concepts and philosophies are based on language trust, leadership and respect. This book implements this through the six keys to conquer the horse and human relationship.
Price: £14.95
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Need To Know Riding by British Horse Societ
From choosing a riding school to mastering canter and jumping this handy and easy to use guide will take you through it all whatever your age and ability.
Includes full colour step-by-steo sequences throughout as well as how to cure common faults, exercises to improce your strength and riding stamina and hints and tips to keep you and your horse healthy and happy.
Price: £9.99
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Principles of Riding Revised
German National Equestrian Federation.
The official instruction handbook for the German National Equestrian Federation.
Provides a complete basic instruction course for horse and rider using the German training system.
Price: £16.95
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Progressive School exercises by Islay Auty
Isla Auty.
A collection of exercises on the flat and over fences. Designed for more experienced riders and horses.
Price: £10.95
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Psychological Dynamics Of Sport And Exercise- 2nd edition
Diane L Gill
A comprehensive theory and research based coverage of social, health an applied sport and exercise psychology. Focus on goal setting, stress management, skills, personality, motivation and self-perceptions.
Price: £37.50
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Question & Answer Guide to Understanding Your Horse by Michael Peace and Lesley Bayley
Michael Peace & Lesley Bayley
Provides riders with easy to follow techniques for building a better relationship with their horses. Comprehensive case studies with sequenced photographs show how to increase your understanding of your horse without having to fall back on bulling tactics.
Price: £19.99
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Realize Your Horses True Potential by Lesley Skipper
Lesley Skipper.
To ensure each horse is given the oportunity to learn the method of teaching should be shaped for each individual horse. This book will enable every trainer and rider to understand this and achieve their horses true potential! Topics covered include: Improving on nature, working from the ground, improving the horse and many more.
Price: £19.99
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Real Riding by Perry Wood
This exceptional 5 part book covers everything from riders aids, to how to produce a stunning partnership. Innovative ideas in an easy to read package.
Price: £16.95
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Revolutionize Your Riding by Susan McBane
Susan McBane
The author concentrates on the rider not the schooling of the horse in this book. She assumes that the horse you are riding is well schooled and usually does what you ask! However she does mention that if your horse can be 'difficult' once you have started your training it will help you to combat this.
The book aims to give you a simple and effective training program which will help you to not only improve your own riding but to achieve a harmony with your horse enabling better results and a more enjoyable experience.
Colour photographs and clear diagrams throughout.
Price: £19.99
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Ride From Within by James Shaw
James Shaw
Use Tai Chi principles to awaken your natural balance and rhythm.
Develop a deep seat,reduce tension. lower your centre of balance, create free movement and releive pain in the neck,lower back and hips.
If you feel lack of harmony and conflicts between you and your horse then this could be the technique to help you find success.
Price: £19.99
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Ride Right by Daniel Stewart
Daniel Stewart
Balance your frame and mind in tune for riding right.Daniel Stewart an international coach for the paraolympic dressage team and explains how to balance and strengthen your body on the ground to achieve your goals in the saddle.
How to recognise your asymmetry's and how to start correcting them.This book is enlightening for all riders and includes many exercises, hints and tips for improving your balance. Includes numerous photograph sequences.
Price: £18.99
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Ride Smarter by Coralie Smyth
Coralie Smyth
An easy to read straight forward positive guide on how to improve your riding and therefore the way your horse perfoms.
This book concentrates on how to relax, be patient and try the softer approach to learn faster and achieve bigger results by releaseing pressure and tension.
A great book for those who lwant to learn with clear written explanations.
Price: £18.95
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Ride With Your Mind Clinic by Mary Wanless
Mary Wanless
In this book a series of common rider faults or problems are looked at, using photographs to illustrate each fault the author explains how to correct each one in an effective way.
This book covers faults which can occur at all levels and uses riders from beginner level to grand prix.
Price: £25.00
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Ride with Your Mind Essentials by Mary Wanless
Mary Wanless
In this book the author aims to show you how to ride like the pro's in an easy to understand way. Mary Wanless is well aware that we are lacking in good information about exactly 'how' to produce excellent results again and again, she aims to tackle this problem with this book.
Price: £19.94
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Riding Dynamics by Kerry L. Turner and Anne Fenn
Kerry Turner
The aim of this book is to really make you think about you, your riding and your horse.
Its not a 'right' way 'wrong' way book but more about self analysis.
Throughout the book you are given exercises to do both on your horse while your schooling and off your horse.
This is truly one book that when you start reading you will find really hard to put down.
Paperback version
Price: £16.00
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Riding From The Inside Out by Larissa Chadwick and Lisa Champion
Lisa Champion
Revolutionise your riding by becoming stretched, stable and strong.
How to improve your riding through an exercise and stretching program devised by a physiotherapist, exercise specialist and a gifted Dressage rider. Improvement from the floor will only improve you on the horse.
Includes audio CD and Clencher.
Price: £16.99
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Riding For Pleasure by Heike Lebherz
Heike Lebherz
An easy-going practical guide to learning to ride for fun.
An introductory book to riding for all ages.
Emphasizing the bond between horse and rider and the pleasure and relaxation riding can bring.
Step-by-step instructions along side photographs on how to tack up, mount and basic riding technique to give the new rider confidence.Includes basic exercises for controling your horse.
Price: £12.99
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Riding for the Rest of us. by Jessica Jahiel
Jessica Jahiel
A practical guide for adult riders giving an all round guide to equitation and horse care.
A keenly sectioned book covering all aspects of riding and basic horse care.
Riding, schooling and competing as an adult .
Price: £19.99
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Riding Logic by Museler Wilhelm
Wilhelm Museler
This book was first written 70 years ago, it has been out of print for more than 10 years and is now back, with full colour photographs. The information includes details on training the rider, schooling the horse, cross country riding, dressage exercises and jumping techniques, all the information is as relevant today as it was when the book was first published.
Price: £16.99
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Riding Techniques
Your Horse with foreword by Tina Sederholm and contributions by various renowned trainers and riders.
This book offers sound general advices on all aspects of riding, fitness and competition. Also deals with specific problems and remedies.
Taylor-made exercises to overcome challenges in flatwork and jumping.
Price: £16.98
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Rider's Aids Cadmos guide by Anne-Katrin Hagen
Anne-Katrin Hagen
How to get it right. How to learn and employ these aids in plain concise language supported with diagrams and photographs for clear understanding.
This guide covers the horses receptive areas, the dressage position and the basic aids through to leg yeilding.
Price: £4.95
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School Exercises for Flatwork and Jumping by Eleanor Ross
Eleanor Ross
A graphic, clearly presented book of ideas and specimen exercises, compiled particularly for trainee Assistant Instructors and for riders schooling their own horses and ponies
Price: £9.95
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Schooling As You Hack - Getting your horse fit by Daniela Bolze
Daniela Bolze
For riders where an arena is not available. How to make best use of the countryside to practice your dressage movements.
Practice shoulder-in, serpentines, collected work and lengthening strides, plus loads more.
Price: £9.95
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Schooling for Success with William Fox-Pitt. by William Fox-Pitt and Kate Green
Text by Kate Green.
This fantastic colourful book introduces William and his training experiences. The book then goes on to explain training and troubleshooting for flatwork, show jumping and cross country.
Also includes stride by stride sequence photographs for combination fences with commentary and helpful hints.
The final chapter gives tips for competition and how to plan your competition day, including course walking and coping with nerves.
Price: £19.99
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Schooling Problems Solved With NLP by Wendy Jago and Charles De Kunffy
Wendy Jago, Charles De Kunffy
Throughout this book you are shown how to communicate with your horse more easily and solve common problems using the Neuro-Linguistic programming. Dr Jago backed up by international trainer Charles de Kunffy illustrates her theories with case histories showing you results.
Price: £19.99
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Schooling with Groundpoles by Claire Lilley
Claire Lilley
This five part book is designed to help keep the student interested in schooling with groundpoles by giving you refreshing new ideas for the use of poles in every aspect of training.
The five parts consist of getting started, basic training for the novice or young horse, remedial training, jumping schooling and further dressage training.
Colour pictures and diagrams throughout
Price: £19.99
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Secrets Of Top Equestrian Trainers by Tina Sederholm
Tina Sederholm interviews 10 of the top trainers from all equine disciplines. Including Yogi Breisner, Rodrigo Pessoa, Kyra Kyrkland and more.
Based on interviews with these top trainers Tina reveals what motivates the worlds best horsemen and women and the philosophies behind their success.
Price: £16.99
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Simple Steps to Riding Success by Liz Morrison
Liz Morrison
Feel the power of positive riding with NLP sports psychology techniques. Includes exercises and case studies. Motivate yourself with visualisation and self talk techniques, rebuild lost confidence, let go of past accidents and negative experiences, learn to enjoy riding agian and achieve competition and exan success. Paperback edt.
Price: £14.99
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Solo Schooling by Wendy Jago
Wendy Jago
Learn to coach yourself when riding on your own using NLP techniques to expand your way of thinking that are practical, logical and realistic.
Setting realistic goals and achieving them is easy with this fantastic new book.
Price: £19.99
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Sport Psychology - A Self Help Guide by Stephen J. Bull
Stephen Bull
A self help guide to understanding behaviour and improving performance in all sports. The books wide range of topics include: motivation, mental preparation, team spirit, anxiety, aggression, coaching styles. A book suitable for coaches, parents, competitors and officials.
Price: £12.99
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Studies In Equitation by Tony Silverman
Tony Silverman
In this book the author includes a plethora of information that will help you bring your horse to a standard where they will become a real pleasure to ride.
This book is aimed at distiling the "true secrets of the art of riding" from the point of view of those that teach.
A fascinating read with diagrams of exercises throughout.
Price: £24.95
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Successful Schooling by Karin Blignault
Karin Blignault
This fascinating book firstly explains the scientific basis of a 'horse language', which every horse should respond to, which once understood should enable your horse to more easily do what is asked of him. You are then taken through the training of a horse to Grand Prix level in dressage, which will help improve your everyday riding as well as showjumping.
Price: £19.95
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Teaching Basic Jumping by Martin Diggle
Martin Diggle
Part of a series of instructional books published in association with the ABRS.
Price: £15.95
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Teaching Children To Ride by Lucinda Green and Jane Wallace
Teaching children to ride can be a hard task as children can sometimes be easy to frighten and put off riding for good.
This book offers advice, exercises, lesson plans, games and teaching tips.
With clear diagrams this book will help you with beginners right up to older children and mounted games.
A truly useful book.
Price: £12.95
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Teaching Exercises
Major Anders Lindgren
A collection of his exercises amalgamated with humour to make this a tremendous and valuable book for instructors and riders.
Price: £18.95
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Teaching Jumping by Jane Houghton Brown
Jane Houghton-Brown
In this new book, Jane Houghton-Brown shows how to teach both horse and rider to jump show jumps and cross-country fences with confidence at all stages of horse and rider development, from novice to advance level. This is a major new training guide, covering the techniques required for the training of young horses and the retraining of older horses.
Price: £20.99
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Teaching Riding by Josephine Knowles
Josephine Knowles FBHS
This book demonstrates how to assist the rider to develop feel, sit in balance and understand the mide and body of the horse.
Special requirements for teaching children and mature adults as well as beginners and more advanced riders is also covered.
Includes flatwork and jumping lessons as well as taking hacks and problem solving.
Price: £15.95
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Teaching The Child Rider by Pamela Roberts
Pamela Roberts
Has now been reprinted and revised, offers a wealth of invaluable advice and information to anyone concerned with the instruction and safety of young riders. (hardback)
Price: £14.95
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Ten Golden Rules Of Horse Training by Bruce Nock
Bruce Nock, PH.D.
Learn how to improve your horses sensitivity to aids and cues, prevent undesirable behaviour under saddle, overcome fear and mistrust and dispel fear, anxiety and tension under saddle. All this can be achieved using the ten golden rules of training horses gently and tactfully, which ever discipline you choose.
Price: £25.00
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That Winning Feeling by Jane Savoie and Ann Pilgrim
Jane Savoie
This training book focuses more on the rider than the horse, have you ever felt nervous or stressed when riding? Jane Savoie helps you to train your mind so you can be more confident whilst riding. She concentrates on dressage, eventing and showjumping but the techniques can be applied to most equine sports.
Price: £10.95
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The All-Around Horse and Rider by Donna SnyderSmith
Donna Snyder-Smith
This book combines the latest riding innovations, which are just starting to be recognised throughout the equestrian community.
The book offers step-by-step instructions in how to utilise these new training methods effectively and shows you how to use them together effectively.
Price: £20.50
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The Art of Training
Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke
This book is based on the authors lifetime experiences and observations, organised in an orderly and easy to follow way this book is easy to read.
You start by being taken through the authors philosophy of training, biomechanics and what he calls the language of touch. This is followed by clear and detailed descriptions of the movements and exercises in a progressive training program.
Clear line drawings by Tina Hutton compliment this book.
Price: £18.95
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The BHS Book Of The Natural Horse by Sarah Widdicombe
Sarah Widdicombe
The aim of this book is to help you understand why your horse reacts the way he does and what you can do to help make your daily routine easier and more enjoyable for you both.
With seemingly minor changes to the way you manage and ride your horse you can make an enormous difference to the way he or she responds to you.
Full colour photographs throughout
Price: £19.99
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The BHS Riding Manual by Margaret Linington-Payne
Margaret Linington-Payne BHSI
The definitive guide to riding and horsemanship contains expert advice on all aspects of riding, from choosing a riding school and mastering the basic to jumping with confidence and going for a hack across country. Find out what to do if something foes wrong and learn how to progress and refine your riding skills. With helpful and inspiring colour photography throughout, this comprehensive and authoritative manual will be invaluable to riders and horse-lovers of all ages and abilities.
Full of colour photos and an easy to follow layout.
Price: £16.99
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The Bit and the Reins by Friderike Butler and Gerhard Kapitzke
Gerhard Kapitzke.
How to develop good contact and sensitive hands.
A comprehensive guide to the importance of a 'rein independent seat' and how to see the bit and reins as a communication line and not a means of control. Also included is how to protect the horses mouth and how the riders aids create a response from the horse through the reins.
Price: £18.99
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The Complete Equine Training Manual by Jo Weeks
Compiled by Jo Weeks
Packed full of expert advice on training your horse starting from training your youngster right up through all the stages to flat work and jumping lessons which include the use of grids in jumping and the beginning of more advanced dressage movements.
The book also contains a section on bomb proofing your horse and solving specific training problems making it a truly excellent and essential training aid.
Clear step-by-step colour photographs throughout.