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If your interest is jumping, Anne Kursinski's Riding
and Jumping Clinic is a manual you'll return to again and again.
For a fraction of the cost of a clinic, you can have an Olympic rider
provide you with a training program you can go through as many times as
you need.
A quick look at the Table of Contents will show you how
comprehensive this book is. With clear explanations illustrated with
many photographs, it takes you step-by-step through a series of lessons
from beginning jumping through to advanced work.
Chapter Titles
The Basics Behind the Basics
Part I Basic Flat Work
Chapter One
Why Flat Work?; A "Feeling" Preview; Assembling Your
Equipment
Chapter Two
Mounting; Dismounting; Position at the Halt; Position in Motion
Chapter Three
Using Your Aids with Feeling; The Language of the Conversation;
Transitions; Combining Aids - the Basic Half-Halt
Chapter Four
Bending; Stride Length
Chapter Five
Influencing Lateral Movement; Riding a Course on the Flat; Final
Thoughts on Basic Flat Work
Part II Basic Jumping
Chapter Six
Gauging Readiness; Attitude; Preliminaries; Equipment for Jumping
Chapter Seven
Jumping Position; The Elements of Effective Jumping
Chapter Eight
Exercise 1: Straight Line over Rails on the Ground; Finding Stride
Length; Jumping on a Curving Track; Exercise 2: Circles over Rails on
the Ground
Chapter Nine
Straight Lines; Exercise 3: Two Small Jumps on a Line; Exercise 4:
Diagonal and Bending Lines
Chapter Ten
Exercise 5: Jumping on an Angle; Exercise 6: A Short Course; Exercise
7: A Gymnastic; Exercise 8: An In-and-Out; Jumping Without Stirrups;
Flying Changes
Part
III Advanced Flat Work
Chapter Eleven
A New Level of Feeling; Keeping It Simple - and Rewarding; Readiness
Check; Your All-Important Attitude; Leg-Yield Review; Halt and Reinback;
Shoulder-in
Chapter Twelve
Haunches-In; A Pause to Assess; Long and Low - a Stretching Exercise
Chapter Thirteen
Flexion and Collection; Transitions; Getting Used to a Show-Ring Pace
Chapter Fourteen
Advanced Turn on the Haunches; Shoulder-in at the Canter
Chapter Fifteen
Counter-Canter; Flying Changes; Half-Pass; Final Flat Work Thoughts
Part IV
Advanced Jumping
Chapter Sixteen
Riding Readiness Check; Mental Readiness; Improving Communication;
Exercise 9: Advanced Communication with Your Hands; Exercise 10:
Improving Communication Through Your Seat; Improving Communication -
with Your Eyes; Exercise 11: Jumping Without Looking
Chapter Seventeen
Refining Your Sense of Distance; Exercise 12; Advanced Counting;
Exercise 13: Counting Off Turns to Lines; Exercise 14: Circles for
Suppleness and "Eyes"
Chapter Eighteen
About Fences; How to Ride All Types of Combinations; Exercise 15: Two
Oxers, Sixty-six Feet Apart; Exercise 16: Oxer to Oxer to Vertical;
Exercise 17: Triple Bar to Two Verticals; Exercise 18: Short to Long and
Long to Short; Exercise 19: Serpentine with Three Jumps; Exercise 20:
Three Jumps Ridden as a Bending Line and a Straight Line
Chapter Nineteen
Cross-Country Natural Jumps; Higher Fences
Part V
Horsemanship
Chapter Twenty
Know Your Horse; Team Up with Vet and Farrier; Absorb Ideas - but
Selectively
Part VI
Show Preparation
Chapter Twenty-One
At Home; Equipment; Before You Go - to Jump or Not to Jump; A Routine
Jumping School; Final Thoughts Before Show Day
Chapter Twenty-Two
Show Day: Early Preparations; Learning the Course; Mental
Preparation; Warming Upr for Your Class; Performance Hints
Part
VII Courses
Chapter Twenty-Three Hunter Courses
Chapter Twenty-Four Equitation Courses
Chapter Twenty-Five Jumper Courses
Part
VIII Goals
Chapter Twenty-Six
Make Sure Your Goals Make Sense; Think Backward to Plan Ahead;
Stepping-Stone Goals; Goals to Keep You Going; Think Big
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