Basic Riding Skills & Tips Explained For Beginners - The Realistic Approach

This is a beginners guide to riding horses, which not only explains how to ride a horse at a basic level, but explains why you need to ride in a certain way. It explains what you should feel when riding each pace and the best way to help accommodate yourself and the horse. The canter can be problematic to ride well when learning and so can the sitting trot. Suggestions for how to best accomplish both these gaits for the rider have been added, to help facilitate the learning process. The book has been written in simple and easy to understand terms, with the focus starting right from the beginning of how to get on and off a horse, what you should feel through the saddle in walk and trot through to riding, feeling and influencing the canter. The book is aimed at anyone learning to ride or interested in how it feels to ride a horse. It is also aimed at the novice, improver or nervous rider. It covers problems the novice rider experiences when learning to ride and offers suggestions on how to over come them.