Description
Olympian Anne Kursinski's acclaimed book on riding horses over fences delivers on-target counsel and the kind of sophisticated, quality instruction you can only get in top stables around the world.
Let this medal-winning international competitor show you 'how it's done' with step-by-step descriptions of 20 exercises to improve your position, your 'feel', and your overall understanding of how to confidently and successfully master a jump course.
Throughout, explanations are clarified with hundreds of illuminating photographs, completely reshot in full colour for this new edition. Inside, you'll find a top-notch education in basic flatwork and jumping, including bending, adjusting stride length, moving laterally, riding straight lines and curves, jumping without stirrups, and flying changes. You'll also learn advanced flatwork and jumping, with lessons in flexion and collection, counter-canter, half-pass, ways to perfect distances and count strides, and tips for riding different kinds of combinations, bigger jumps, and natural fences.
In addition, this revised edition includes a new chapter on riding derby-style courses.
Now with all new colour photographs!
About the Author
Anne Kursinski is one of the all-time leading riders in U.S. show jumping history. She is a five-time Olympian with two team silver medals and has ridden on 47 U.S. Nations' Cups teams, competed in ten World Cup Finals, and has been a member of three U.S. World Equestrian Games Teams. In 2011 she was voted America's Favourite Show Jumping Equestrian, and in 2017 she was inducted into the Show Jumping Hall of Fame. Miranda Lorraine is a professional photographer and was previously an editor of Practical Horseman magazine. She lives in South Carolina. Amber Heintzberger is a freelance writer and photographer specialising in equestrian coverage. Her writing and photography has been published in numerous print and internet publications worldwide, including coverage of major international competitions.
Reviews
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You can't argue with the expertise of Kursinski. The book is a resource that can B&N PGW March - April 2020 Pubs benefit not only intermediate and advanced riders but also hunter/jumper trainers who want to polish their instruction.
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Anne Kursinski really has had it all. Very few people in the hunter/jumper industry can boast such a comprehensive background. There is no question that her system and ideology work for the hunter, jumper, and equitation horse and rider.
* George H. Morris, former Chef d'Equipe of the US Show Jumping Team *Book Information
ISBN 9781570769849
Author Anne Kursinski
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Trafalgar Square
Publisher Trafalgar Square