Common Sense Horsemanship

The author, formerly Captain, First Hussars, Russian Imperial Cavalry, gives his best knowledge on how to become an accomplished horse rider. The chapter names reveal much of his philosophy: Imagine You Are a Horse, The Search for Balance, Crystallizing a Method, Troubles With the Forsard Seat, Learning the Forward Seat, Bringing Control Down to Earth and Forward, Elementary Control, What Is a Good Performance of the Horse, Why Collected Gaits Have No Place in Forward Schooling, Learning Control on the Intermediate Level, Advanced Control, Modernizing the Ideal, Almost Anyone Can Learn Forward Schooling,The Program of Forward Schooling, How to Teach Riding, How To Teach the Forward Seat, How to Teach Control, and How To Teach Schooling