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Anne Kursinski's Riding and Jumping Clinic

A Step-by-Step Course for Winning in the Hunter and Jumper Rings (Revised)

Anne Kursinski author Miranda Lorraine author Amber Heintzberger illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Trafalgar Square

Published:29th Oct '20

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Anne Kursinski's Riding and Jumping Clinic cover

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Olympian Anne Kursinski’s acclaimed book on riding horses over fences delivers on-target counsel and the kind of sophisticated, quality instruction you can only get in top stables around the world.

Let this medal-winning international competitor show you 'how it’s done' with step-by-step descriptions of 20 exercises to improve your position, your 'feel', and your overall understanding of how to confidently and successfully master a jump course. 

Throughout, explanations are clarified with hundreds of illuminating photographs, completely reshot in full colour for this new edition. Inside, you’ll find a top-notch education in basic flatwork and jumping, including bending, adjusting stride length, moving laterally, riding straight lines and curves, jumping without stirrups, and flying changes. You’ll also learn advanced flatwork and jumping, with lessons in flexion and collection, counter-canter, half-pass, ways to perfect distances and count strides, and tips for riding different kinds of combinations, bigger jumps, and natural fences. 

In addition, this revised edition includes a new chapter on riding derby-style courses.

Now with all new colour photographs! 

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You can't argue with the expertise of Kursinski. The book is a resource that can B&N PGW March - April 2020 Pubs benefit not only intermediate and advanced riders but also hunter/jumper trainers who want to polish their instruction.

* The Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar *
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Anne Kursinski really has had it all. Very few people in the hunter/jumper industry can boast such a comprehensive background. There is no question that her system and ideology work for the hunter, jumper, and equitation horse and rider.

* George H. Morris, former Chef d'Equipe of the US Show Jumping Team *

ISBN: 9781570769849

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

336 pages