Product Description

Techniques to help riders fine-tune their communication and riding skills

This follow-up to How Your Horse Wants You to Ride helps intermediate to advanced riders improve their communication with their mounts and polish their overall riding skills. Readers get a complete tutorial–much of which can be found nowhere else–on taking their riding skills to the next level.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #692572 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 339 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780764599149
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

The basics continued
Although the "editorial" review assesses this book for intermediate and advanced riders, it is a bit misleading. Gincy continues with more of the basics that we all need to become solid riders. And I do mean the basics.

Gincy points out that even advanced riders may know they are doing something wrong, but may not know how to correct their mistake. She then gives very detailed and yet simple ways to start out doing the right thing so you may never need to correct yourself. For those of us who started before her series of books, she has made available in clear, simple steps what to do to adjust and correct our position and techniques.

I love her "Tidbits and Supplements" which are little asides that point out odds and ends of knowledge about riding, tack, horses, and horse people that you might learn if you spent years hanging around barns and horses, but you also might have missed. The photographs and diagrams in the book are really helpful and appear at just the right moments.

In this book she is also very specific about what to do to ride with more confidence. Her Seven Steps plus Grounding are spelled out here and discussed once again. Everything about how she asks the rider to approach riding the horse creates confidence in riding.

This, like her other books, should be a riding textbook for beginner riders and a bedside companion for intermediate and advanced riders. She writes in a way that makes the art of riding feel very simple and yet handles all the specifics that will take you to whatever level of riding you want to learn. It is a terrific addition to the riding literature, and fit for both riders and their instructors who want to be sure their students learn clear and useful basics.

Not just for graduates!
I bought this book thinking I would want it later, after my riding had improved through the program in _How Your Horse Wants You to Ride_. It sat around unread for a long time because I thought I wasn't ready for the advanced material yet. Then I peeked inside and found out that MORE doesn't just pick up where the first book left off. MORE starts at the beginning and adds to the material in the first book, at every level. There is material in there that is way too advanced for me but there is also a whole lot that isn't. There is some review, some overlap of what's in the first book, in addition to the new material. Take a peek, you'll find that MORE begins with the Seven Steps, progresses to working with the horse on the ground, and so on. So don't wait to read MORE. It will give you more, no matter where you are on your journey.

Another great book for the horse and rider.
In her third book, this companion to "How Your Horse Wants You To Ride", Gincy gives us another collection of her deep insights into horse behavior, comfort and motivation. Every nuance of equine behavior is covered. Every situation that will arise is here with solutions in easily understood text and excellent photo illustrations.

This, and the earlier book, form a complete manual for riders from their early beginnings, through to mastery and enjoyment of riding. In fact, through building confidence and understanding from the start, it assures that both the horse and rider will enjoy their times together. It is all done with warmth, kindlness and complete understanding of the rider's point of view as well as that of the horse. These books offer lots of support and knowledge for anyone working with and enjoying horses.

For the instructor "More HYHWYTR" with its companion book, provides a wonderful basis for planning lessons and dealing with every day to day situation that arises with riding students and their mounts.

As in her earlier books, Gincy focuses on building the rider's confidence as well as her skill.

Gincy's decades of experience teaching, training, riding and loving horses comes clearly through to us in her enjoyable and helpful books.

More HYHWYTR is a 'must have' for everyone who rides, from pre-beginner to confident expert..