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This is a frank and encouraging guide aimed at everyone who knows their horse could be better. Key requirements of a perfect riding horse are identified and then explored in depth with a detailed breakdown of how to train each element. The perfect horse requires the perfect rider, and simple yet effective ways to become the rider your perfect horse deserves are discussed so you can train both yourself and your horse. This book takes the reader all the way from choosing the right horse through mastering the basics, lateral work and introducing jumping, all presented in a contemporary 'magazine-style' format. It also provides 'inside' knowledge and essential ingredients with clear step-by-step photography and text to help readers create their perfect riding horse for any discipline or level of ability.

Perry Wood shows with simplicity how to listen to yourself, how to listen to others and, once you have mastered these skills, how to set goals and turn your life into a success story.

This volume provides easy-to-use horse whispering techniques and principles that can help readers develop better bonds with horses.

Popular Author Perry Wood reveals some essential principles for teaching your horse to become bombproof. The common term for a horse that accepts everything without being afraid is 'bombproof', implying that even if a bomb went off nearby, the horse would not react, jump sideways, or try to run away. By following the methods in Bombproofing Tips, in time you may find that your horse has become the kind of paragon that we traditionally call 'bombproof' includes understanding the horse's nature, basic riding skills, leading skills, how to de-sensitise your horse, riding past objects of fear — traffic, loud noises and unusual sounds, reward and punishment, riding over objects on the ground, animals and children, and strange objects.

This is the 51st "Threshold Picture Guide" where Perry Wood gives much needed advice on common riding problems. It gives practical tips on how to improve your horse's behaviour under saddle, making him safer to ride and a pleasure to own. Subjects covered include bucking, rearing, head-tossing, shying, jogging, bolting, napping, refusing to jump, nose poking, difficult to mount, hard-mouthed, overexcited and inattentive to the rider.

Would you like to dance with your horse? If the answer to that question is a resounding 'Yes!' then this book will help you do just that. Whether you are a serious competitor, a rider who enjoys schooling their horse for pleasure or someone in between, this book will equip you with the insights, knowledge, tips and training exercises to gymnasticise your horse, show you ways to improve your riding and give you the keys to discovering new levels of connection and performance with your horse - all done with lightness. Whatever style of riding you enjoy, be it jumping, endurance, eventing, polo, trail-riding or dressage, Dressage the Light Way ensures that you will have a lighter, safer, more athletic and responsive ride if you follow the progressive, step-by-step training methods in this book. From the seat and position to balance and collection, or calming the horse to advanced lateral work, every topic is presented in a concise bullet-pointed and numbered format so that the basic essence of each subject is quickly absorbed and understood.