More How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Advanced Basics, The Fun Begins (Howell Equestrian Library)

339 Pages·2006·6.67 MB·english

by  Gincy Self Bucklin

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M H Y
ORE OW OUR
H W
ORSE ANTS
Y R
OU TO IDE
Advanced Basics: The Fun Begins
GINCY SELF BUCKLIN
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M H Y
ORE OW OUR
H W
ORSE ANTS
Y R
OU TO IDE
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Also by Gincy Self Bucklin:
How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Starting Out—Starting Over
What Your Horse Wants You to Know: What Horses’ “Bad” Behavior Means and
How to Correct It
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M H Y
ORE OW OUR
H W
ORSE ANTS
Y R
OU TO IDE
Advanced Basics: The Fun Begins
GINCY SELF BUCKLIN
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Bucklin, Gincy Self.
More how your horse wants you to ride : advanced basics—the fun begins / Gincy Self Bucklin.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-9914-9 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0-7645-9914-3 (cloth)
1. Horsemanship. I. Title.
SF309.B885 2006 798.2—dc22
2005025256
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Cover design by Wendy Mount
Book production by Wiley Publishing, Inc. Composition Services
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To all the patient horses and students who bore with me
over the many years during which I struggled to learn my
trade. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
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“There is only one kind of mistake, that is, the fundamental mistake.
Regardless of how advanced the exercise, if the performance is defective, one
can directly trace that fault to a lack in the fundamental training of either the
horse or the rider.”
—Erik Herbermann
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Contents
Preface x
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 1
What’s in the Book, Where It Came from, Why You Need to
Know It
PART I 7
Building Trust Through Ground Work
1 9
The Stone Horse
Working in the Barn
2 33
The Following Horse
Moving Around the Farm
3 47
The Floating Horse
Playing in the Arena
PART II 69
Riding So Your Horse Likes It Too
4 71
Clothing, Tack, and Mounting
Starting Out Right Is the Key
5 103
Make Yourselves Comfortable
Sitting on the Horse Without Stirrups
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viii Contents
6 125
Making Conversation
Listening as Well as Talking
7 147
The Quiet Aids
Making Yourself Heard Without Shouting
8 161
Reins Without Borders
Giving Up Control and Developing Soft Hands
PART III 175
Setting Out into the Real World
9 177
Stirrup Stuff
Sitting or Standing, Be Solid and Secure
10 211
Rein Effects
Looking at Rein Aids from a Different Angle
11 231
Hills and Cavaletti
Preparing for the Great Outdoors
12 245
The Real Fun Begins
Cantering and Galloping
13 261
Jumping Made Easy
The Half Seat Revisited
14 281
More About Jumping
Getting There Is Half the Fun
15 291
Cheerful Confidence
Going Where You Want to Go, Effortlessly