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Cinch today's top new riding techniques

In the past twenty-five years, a number of major innovations in horse handling have gained acceptance in the global community. Now Howell presents a one-stop resource for amateur adult riders to help them understand the new approaches and implement them to achieve fast results.

Written by renowned professional riding instructor Donna Snyder-Smith, The All-Around Horse and Rider is the first equestrian book to offer a precise road map to utilizing the new innovations in training. This unique book explains the basic lessons the all-around rider must master, showing how to set realistic equestrian goals and adopt the methods that best enable the horse to do his job. Snyder-Smith gets to the heart of "correct" riding, helping the rider harmonize with a horse's movements while translating acquired skills to a wide variety of disciplines.
* Covers the latest innovations in horse handling, including rider body awareness, equine movement awareness, and round-pen work
* Demostrates how the innovations and training methods inter-relate -- and how to combine them effectively
* Reveals how to increase the strength and endurance of both horse and rider
* Explains the different competitions and who is best suited to compete
* Shares inspiring, real-life experiences of all-around horses and their riders
* Identifies when to ask for help-and how to find it
Foreword by Denny Emerson.

Introduction.

1. The All-Around Horse, an American Heritage.

2. Determining Where You Stand Now.

3. Setting Realistic Goals.

4. First Foot in the Stirrup.

5. Developing Skills.

6. Getting Agreement.

7. When to Ask for Help (and How and Where to Find It).

8. Where the Road Can Lead.

9. Six Fun Things You Can Do With the Same Horse.

10. Three All-Around Horses and Their Riders.

Appendix.

About the Author.

Index.

Sujets

Animal Sports

Sports

Equestrian

Recreation

Sport équestre

Sports équestres

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	05 mai 2008
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780470354360
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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THE ALL-AROUND HORSE AND RIDER
THE ALL-AROUND HORSE AND RIDER
DONNA SNYDER-SMITH
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Copyright 2004 by Donna Snyder-Smith. All rights reserved.
Howell Book House
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey
Published simultaneously in Canada
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Snyder-Smith, Donna.
The all-around horse and rider / Donna Snyder-Smith.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7645-4974-X (alk. paper)
1. Horsemanship. II. Horses. III. Title.
SF309.S635 2004
2003018788
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Photography by Donna Snyder-Smith unless otherwise credited Illustrations by Bethany Caskey and Susan Harris
This book is dedicated to the special horses in my life-Kopper, Karmah and Falcon
To my horse friends, since only they can understand what it means to need to be in the presence of these unique creatures
And to my many clients, who have allowed me to participate with them in their journey toward their equestrian dreams .
Contents
Foreword by Denny Emerson
Introduction
1 The All-Around Horse, an American Heritage
2 Determining Where You Stand Now
3 Setting Realistic Goals
4 First Foot in the Stirrup
5 Developing Skills
6 Getting Agreement
7 When to Ask for Help (and How and Where to Find It)
8 Where the Road Can Lead
9 Six Fun Things You Can Do With the Same Horse
10 Three All-Around Horses and Their Riders
Appendix
About the Author
Index
Foreword
As I began to read Donna Snyder-Smith s The All-Around Horse and Rider , I found myself constantly nodding in agreement, thinking, Yes! Yes! For what Donna has brilliantly accomplished here is to have taken a highly complex subject and, without downplaying its complexity, made it appear possible.
Possible, not easy-an important distinction. It s a truth-telling book, not necessarily a feel-good book for those with low goals and meager aspirations. For the truth is that while there are many gradations of riding skills, and it s possible to ride a horse very badly, good riding requires physical and intellectual rigor.
Donna uses phrases like biomechanical action, basic cognitive program and auditory, visual and kinesthetic learning channels. This is clearly a book aimed at the serious student, but that s not to imply that it s a heavy book-just one that is uncompromisingly correct.
Correct is a term that can be used very narrowly, as in That is a correct half pass, but that isn t the correct I mean. Horses, for all their variety, have skeletons and muscles, tendons and ligaments, which move in certain ways that are relatively constant. They have central nervous systems that have been programmed by eons of evolution to respond to certain stimuli in ways that are also relatively constant.
When riders are in tune with these movements and responses, that is correct riding. The horse feels less pressure, less duress, less discomfort. When the rider s incorrect posture, or rough hands, or abusive temper puts her out of tune with the horse s natural physical and emotional pathways, that is incorrect riding.
The really good, all-around riders can ride lots of different horses in a multitude of disciplines because they harmonize correctly with the movements of the horse in ways that also do not trigger the horse s fight-or-flight mechanisms. It doesn t matter whether the saddle is Western or English, or whether the rider foxhunts or trail rides, as long as she maintains that fundamental correctness.
I ve spent much of my life in close proximity to some of the truly great riders in the world. Almost universally, they aren t one-dimensional riders. Eight-time Olympic three-day veteran Mike Plumb won the Maclay equitation class as a child and placed second in the Maryland Hunt Cup. Frank Chapot, six-time grand prix jumping Olympian, placed third in the Maryland Hunt Cup.
Great riders are great riders-something Donna recognizes and encourages in this marvelous book. She says to us, in essence, that we need to learn to ride correctly, and then take that riding wherever we wish to go, in any direction that sparks our passion. The All-Around Horse and Rider is a road map, an intellectual exercise and an inspiration that deserves a prominent place on the bookshelf of every serious rider.
Denny Emerson
Tamarack Hill Farm
Member 1974 USET World Championship
Gold Medal Eventing Team
USCTA National Leading Rider
Introduction
Riding, in its simplest form, is nothing more than keeping a horse between you and the ground. Competition, on the other hand, is an expression of skill and athleticism, and has as its ultimate goal-winning. Riding as art is much like Zen-an enlightenment (of the rider by the horse) by direct intuition (communication done through bodily contact) achieved through meditation (upon the horse, by the rider). Good riding is good riding, regardless of the clothes, the saddle or the century.
To become an all-around horseman or horsewoman requires education. Whether that education is self-taught or gained with the help of experienced teachers and mentors, the rider who wishes to attain the title of all-around must be prepared to challenge themselves mentally, as well as physically. The first challenge you will meet is finding a jumping-off point for your journey. Intelligent adults can select a goal and proceed toward it in a successful way on their own time schedule if they are provided with reliable information and an overall context.
Forty years of working within the equestrian industry as an instructor and trainer has impressed upon me that the value of context is often underestimated, and it is not unusual for that particular piece of the puzzle to be missing all together. I see riders and owners making diligent efforts to seek knowledge but finding it only in isolated segments. Not having an overview is as much of a handicap as is trying to piece together a puzzle without first looking at the image you are working to bring together. Seeing the journey as a whole gives context, which in turn gives greater meaning and clarification to the content you are seeking.
Today s rider faces many landmines in the search for context as well as content. For instance, it is currently fashionable to recommend that you look to the horse to evaluate input. But if you lack the expertise to read him accurately, you will be unable to rely on his input as your primary guidance system in the search for a safe and satisfactory route to your destination. On another front, there is a lack of continuity within the equestrian industry that makes it, at best, a flimsy launching pad to success. It is a sad fact that within any state, even within a single county, riders exhibiting identical skills can be classified so differently that one is named a novice by one instructor and the other is named advanced by another instructor. This poses a serious problem to both the individual and the industry, and is, in part, the reason this book was born. Over the course of your riding lives, you and your horse can try many paths; you don t have to choose just one. In order to do this, however, you will need an overview of the equestrian world that allows you to see and understand that the various disciplines function on the same principles. Loving horses all my life, I wish to see them live happy lives, and I know that the better you ride, the happier your horse will be. My second goal is to see the level of equestrian knowledge in this country constantly evolve to a higher and higher standard, and I believe that today s caring, adult amateur riders can become the standard bearers in this cause.
In the past 50 years, performance tests have tended to underscore differences and emphasize specialization. This trend has resulted in practices in training and showing horses that are ultimately injurious to the health and soundness of the animal. Horses in western pleasure classes are forced into head sets so low that they are known