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Starting out working with horses and riding can make you somewhat fearful and all of it can be somewhat overwhelming. After all, trying to control a 1, pound animal doesn't seem natural! The way to overcome all of this is through a position of knowledge. As you discover all about horses and what makes them tick - you'll start to understand how you, too, can easily ride and control them. Knowledge of horses, their weaknesses and how they think puts you in control.
The knowledge and expertise will have after reading this book will have you completely overcoming any inhibitions very soon. You'll be amazed at how fast you'll learn and will realize how fun and enjoyable horse riding really is!
Listen, you will pay hundreds of dollars to have a horseback riding instructor teach you advanced horseback riding.
Before that expense, why not discover the basics first to see if horseback riding is something you want to pursue long-term.
Confused About Getting Started? So many new horseback riders just aren't sure about the best way to get started. That's natural. The best thing you can do is gain knowledge - learn all about horses, how they think, their fears, why you do certain things and how they react to different things.
Then discover all about different ways to ride, grooming, care, etc. Charlie - thanks for the book. I'll be taking riding lessons this spring and knew I needed something to get me started.
I thought I knew a little bit about horses but was pleasantly surprised at the depth of the material you cover in your book.
I really look forward to taking lessons now! Glad I Found It". Great book! It really helped me get started. I've seen other horse books talk about lots of different subjects - but for someone getting started who doesn't know what to ask - your book is very helpful. I'm glad I found it - thanks! Compared to the cost of lessons for my son your book is a bargain! I wasn't sure at first but it's clear now that the expert knowledge in this book taught him more than a couple hundred dollars worth of lessons He now knows more than just about all the others taking lessons there.
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With the right care, they can form an incredibly rewarding bond with you whilst you ride. This classic reference book offers a plethora of riding techniques for all riders. Suitable for both novice and advanced riders, and for equestrian fans of all ages, this book will guide you through every stage of the horse-riding process from the first time in the saddle to mastering advanced riding skills.
Learning how to ride is a very physical activity based on movement and feeling. What interests me as a medieval and early modern historian is that riding is not a just a universal human-equine relationship but entails the historically variable, learned, and practiced co-movements of rider and riding horse.
Here, I would like to offer a historical perspective on horse riding as a complex body of knowledge that brings together different agents: horses, humans, books, and things. Actual riding manuals as instructions on how to ride in this time, however, were scarce. For a long time, the how-to learning aspect seems to have been delegated to the realm of actual practice, that is, daily exercise and verbal instruction.
From a history of knowledge perspective, the question is how the cultural and social practice of horse riding found its way into books. Furthermore, what how did writing and reading about riding shape horse riding practices? Reading these manuals makes clear that they were written in societies in which horse riding was practiced from a very early age. The question these books had to deal with was not how to ride as such, but how to ride properly—as horse riding had to fulfill certain social and aesthetic expectations.
Indeed, early modern riding manuals can be read as efforts to establish a theory of practice. Riding is situated in a school environment. The complex body of knowledge is depicted as a dynamic assemblage of various agents. The center position is dominated by the wise centaur Chiron, who teaches Achilles the art of horsemanship. In this specific teaching and learning arrangement, the teacher is both instructor and riding horse, the ideal teacher. This configuration is playfully mocked by two little boys in the foreground.
One boy mimics the horse by crawling on all four legs while wearing a bridle, whereas the other seems to be mounting him, whip in hand. This playful riding mimicry contrasts the unskilled, ignorant, and forceful mounting of a horse with the skilled, well instructed, and harmonious art of riding.
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