Jane Houghton Brown shows how to teach both horse and rider to successfully clear show jumps and cross-county fences with confidence--at all stages of horse and rider development from novice rider to advanced-level competitor. The book will serve as a specific reference for the career instructor following the British Horse Society examination system. For the rider, the book will also be a manual for the training of young horses or the retraining of older horses. This book shows how successful techniques can be taught effectively at all levels of competence, setting out key points, objectives and solutions to problems at all stages, including how to tackle fear and build confidence.
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* Jane Houghton Brown is ideally qualified to write this book. She is Chairman of the British Horse Society Training and Education Committee and was formerly a very successful, top level show jumper * teaching is an important part of several BHS examinations from preliminary to advanced. About 14000 people take BHS examinations every year * teaching jumping is difficult, yet has to be mastered by all teachers who wish to become qualified * with sympathetic and structured training, all riders should achieve their potential as jumpers * demand for a textbook which sets out modern techniques. Other titles are dated, do not follow the new syllabi and concentrate on teaching the horse, not the rider * demand for a practical manual for the training of both horse and rider at all levels * emphasises the importance of the relationship between the horse and rider as a key factor to success * 150 half-tone and line illustrations
