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Title: 101 Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider
ISBN: 1580175953
Author:
Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publicate Date: 2005-07-01
Publish: 2005-07-01
List Price: $29.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Plastic Comb
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1: My new Horse Bible!
Fantastic book! I use this daily when exercising our dressage/western/english horses. All the maneuvers and exercises benefit any manner of riding, not just dressage. Easy to use and understand - diagrams and instructions are clear. Highly recommended!
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2: excellent resource
I'm riding an intelligent horse that, when exercises are repeated, quickly begins to anticipate. This book's creative, insightful, and well described exercises have provided me with new ways to work on developing his strength and flexibility with enough variety to keep us both interested. I leave it in the barn and pick a new exercise before each ride. Though my copy is still in great shape, I think it would be terrific if it was printed on coated (barn-proof) paper.
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3: Vey Useful
Very useful tool to have in every instructors library. There's a breif description on the benefits of each exercise and how to execute. Some of the exercises added another layer to the ones that I already use and I found this to be an added plus!
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4: The Best So Far
Brilliant diagrams, excellent keys, simply mapped out and laid out information for difficult and also the easiest of dressage manoevres. It's bound at the top for a vertical flip, with a hole punched down near the bottom so you can hang the book on a nail on your bulletin board or at home to study it and keep it open while you study it. It has handy hints how to achieve positions and gives you ideas to improve certain flaws. It is by far the best book on dressage I have read so far.
Just about EVERY page has another full A4 dressage arena on it showing the pattern where the horse is going, it shows crossbars and it shows trotting poles and where to place them, it shows where you should do a certain manoevre such as a flying change or shoulder-in with an excellent use of diagrams and patterns which have a key right next to it so the design remains uncluttered and simple to read. A best buy for anyone serious about dressage - or even jumping - to keep their horse supple and to keep their horse from boredom. Brilliant.
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5: Dressage Exercises
This book lists and illustrates a wide variety of exercises for the dressage horse and explains the value of each exercise. Good illustrations guide you through each exercise and they are logically grouped into lessons to improve specific aspects of the horse's development. However, this book is not for beginning riders. It does not explain the aids nor does it explain the movement, so if you don't already know shoulder-in, counter canter, etc. you will find this very frustrating and be forced to reference a book that does explain the application of the aids and movements. The format is too large to be of much use at the barn or ringside; it would have been more helpful to be half the size.
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