Training Tree for Riders: A Systematic Approach to Rider Development - Tapa blanda

Whether you are a rider seeking to improve your skills or an instructor looking for ways to help your students improve their riding, the philosophy and exercises in the Training Tree for Riders will help you to develop yourself or your students into the kind of rider who makes riding look easy! What do riders need to know? What pre-requisites need to be in place in order for them to learn it? How can these skills be most effectively taught and confirmed? This book provides answers.The training tree is a priceless guide to training horses for any discipline, and has been for a hundred years. The Training Tree for Riders seeks to fill the same role for riders. Each step supports the next step and leads to the ultimate goal of a balanced, fluid, natural rider regardless of discipline. Included are multiple exercises for every step, diagnostics to show what the rider needs to work on, how to know when riders are ready for the next step, and effective and interesting ways of integrating the work into lessons.

Amanda Berges has been training horses since 1985 and teaching riding lessons since 1988. She has experience with a variety of disciplines including Western, saddleseat, and side-saddle, in addition to her specialties of hunt seat and dressage.Her teaching experience has ranged from children to adults, from backyard farms to national champion show stables and college equestrian programs, and in fact the concept for this book came to her while a member of the equestrian faculty at Lake Erie College. Always fascinated by teaching in both practice and theory, Amanda has been certified by the American Riding Instructors Association (ARIA) for over a decade. Amanda is also a licensed teacher and a busy horse show judge and clinician. Several of her articles have appeared in Riding Instructor magazine, ARIA official publication, and others.