Learn to ride using sports psychology : a training aid for riders and instructors
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Learn to ride using sports psychology : a training aid for riders and instructors
Kenilworth Press, 1996
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Mentales Training für Reiter
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Translated from the German
Originally published: Stuttgart : Franckh-Kosmos, 1995
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Using the techniques of sports psychology, this handbook offers an approach on learning to ride. The authors, instructors of international repute, discuss methods for overcoming fear, focusing the mind and positive thinking, and offer advice on how to eradicate faults, make rapid progress and eliminate competition nerves. They examine the precise detail of how to ride, starting from the basics. They analyze the rider's position at halt and in motion, in walk, trot and canter, and over jumps, and describe the aids for a variety of ridden exercises, including circles, turns, half-turns, leg-yield, half turn on the forehand and rein-back. The instruction is so specific that in every exercise the rider should know, even before starting to ride the movement, exactly what he is supposed to be doing and how he should set about achieving it. Using feedback and mental rehearsal, he should also know how to repeat the movement successfully.
Table of Contents
- Part one Psychological training: what is psychological training?
- the six most important skills for controlling the mind
- exercises which can be done without a horse. Part two Coping with fear and learning how to fall. Part three Beginnings: choosing a riding school
- first contact with the horse
- leading
- mounting and dismounting. Part four The fundamentals of riding: methods of teaching and learning
- the basic seat
- the aids and their effects
- half-halts. Part five Individual exercises: transitions
- the half turn on the forehand
- leg-yielding
- riding turns, circles and curves
- rein-back. Part six Jumping and the light or half seat: riding in the light or half seat
- jumping. Part seven Putting it all together: riding a simple dressage test
- riding a simple jumping course. Part eight Entering your first competition.
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