Simplify Your Riding

Simplify Your Riding
Author: Wendy Murdoch
Publisher: Carriage House Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-04-06
Genre: Horsemanship
ISBN: 9780967004747

In this book Wendy Murdoch shows riders of all skill levels how to eliminate unconscious restrictions and use their bodies to achieve a higher level of performance with their horses. Featuring over 200 step-by-step colour photographs, the book breaks down the components of balance in the saddle, timing of your aids, riding with a deep seat, and moving in concert with your horse into easy-to-grasp building blocks for improvement. Murdoch presents these concepts in a series of illustrated lessons that allow riders of all disciplines to bring her expertise and guidance right into their own riding ring.

50 5-Minute Fixes to Improve Your Riding

50 5-Minute Fixes to Improve Your Riding
Author: Wendy Murdoch
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1570766398

5 minutes a day is all the time you need to achieve: • Better balance in the saddle • Improved body control from head to toe • Increased influence with your seat • Flawless leg position and subtle aiding • Quieter, softer hands and contact your horse can trust • Less physical stiffness, tension, and riding-related pain • Confidence in your ability to communicate with your horse! PLUS, in just 5 minutes you can improve a horse that's: • Unwilling to go forward or "dead" to the leg • Hollow-backed, high-headed, or above the bit • Heavy on the forehand and unbalanced • A chronic "puller," "leaner," or "head-tosser"! Start or end your riding sessions with Wendy Murdoch's 5-Minute Fixes, and you'll be amazed how quickly you can replace old habits with new ones, get out of your "riding rut," and transform what you can't do into what you can do…naturally, capably, comfortably, and consistently alongside a happy riding partner—your horse.

40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes

40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes
Author: Wendy Murdoch
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 157076719X

Better balance in the saddle, improved body control from head to toe, and increased influence with your seat are just a handful of the simple fixes offered in this straightforward training manual for jumping. Most of the suggestions provided require only a few minutes to learn and offer solutions for making jumping more enjoyable for both riders and their horses. By starting and ending each ride with these simple, easy, and effective fixes, equestrians will happily and efficiently replace old habits with new ones and get out of the riding rut we all find ourselves in at some point in our riding career.

The Effortless Rider®

The Effortless Rider®
Author: Wendy Murdoch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2006-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991522620

Find new possibilities of movement to enhance your riding.

ABC of the Horse Atlas

ABC of the Horse Atlas
Author: Pauli Grönberg
Publisher: Pg-Team
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-07
Genre: Horses
ISBN: 9789519874425

This is a comprehensive handbook of the anatomy of the equine locomotor system. This uniquely illustrated guide has been produced in close collaboration with veterinary experts and provides an excellent tool for those involved in veterinary medicine, equine physiotherapy and training of horses. The extensive and clear anatomical plates cover the skeleton, ligaments and muscles and include terminology in English and Latin.

Stable Smarts

Stable Smarts
Author: Heather Smith Thomas
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1580176100

Old cowboy tricks, quick fixes, hardlearned lessons, and tried-and-true horsekeeping wisdom fill the pages of this indispensable handbook from seasoned horsewoman Heather Smith Thomas. Writing from her Idaho ranch, and drawing from a lifetime of working with horses, Thomas has assembled a treasure-trove of information for anyone who rides, keeps, or dreams of spending time with horses. Presented in appealing bite-sized portions, ThomasÕs insider tips cover everything from barns and tack to feeding, foaling, medical care, trail riding, camping, knot-tying, fencing, trailering, and more. She addresses every aspect of horse care and handling that average horseowners will encounter, regardless of where they live, what breeds they have, and what style of riding or work they do with their horses. Resourceful, knowledgeable, and intuitive about horses, Heather Smith Thomas is someone every horse enthusiast would love to ride alongside for a spell. With Stable Smarts, they can do just that, as often as theyÕd like.

Zero Waste Home

Zero Waste Home
Author: Bea Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451697686

A practical guide for reducing waste in the home offers tools and tips for going "zero waste," discussing how to make cosmetics and cleaning supplies, pack lunches without plastic, and weed out unnecessary appliances. Shows how the author transformed her family's life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing 1 liter per year; part practical guide that gives readers tools & tips to diminish their footprint & simplify their lives. -- Publishers Description.

The Essential Elements of Lateral Work

The Essential Elements of Lateral Work
Author: Wendy Murdoch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 39
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991522613

Six collected article by Wendy Murdoch first printed in Eclectic Horseman Magazine now bound together. Part 1 in the Ride Like A Natural® Reader Series.

More How Your Horse Wants You to Ride

More How Your Horse Wants You to Ride
Author: Gincy Self Bucklin
Publisher: *Howell Book House
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2006-02-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0471785733

Techniques to help riders fine-tune their communication and riding skills This follow-up to How Your Horse Wants You to Ride helps intermediate to advanced riders improve their communication with their mounts and polish their overall riding skills. Readers get a complete tutorial–much of which can be found nowhere else–on taking their riding skills to the next level.