Teaching Riding (Allen Books for Students S.) - Tapa blanda

"Teaching Riding" encompasses 50 years of teaching experience by a Fellow of the British Horse Society. The author has taught riders of all ages and stages and this truly comprehensive guide is distinguished by her sound common-sense approach and profound knowledge of horses and ponies. Josephine Knowles demonstrates how to assist the rider to develop feel, to sit in balance and to understand the mind and body of the horse. Covering the special requirements for teaching children and mature adults, beginners, nervous and more advanced riders, the author also includes advice on riding on the flat and over jumps, taking out hacks and taking lessons with known riding school horses as well as unknown privately owned horses. There are suggestions for solving all kinds of problems, for maintaining the interests of a ride, for discipline and safety and general guidelines for instructors at all levels. Everyone, whether student or qualified instructor, will benefit from reading this invaluable and enlightening teaching manual.

Josephine Knowles has been riding since she was two years old, breaking and schooling since she was 12 and teaching since she was a teenager. She has taken and passed her Pony Club A test and all the British Horse Society examinations, gaining her Fellowship before she was 26, and run her own riding school for more than 20 years. She has given teacher training courses, taught in nine countries, shown, showjumped, evented, hunted, point-to-pointed and competed in dressage on her own and other people's horses. Josephine Knowles is the author of The ABC of Breaking and Schooling and The ABC of Horse and Pony Problems.