Description
For The Good of The Rider
Mary Wanless
First Edition 1998
Hardback in a dust jacket
9 3/4″ x 7″, 322 pages + bibliography and index, illustrated with line drawings, dust jacket a little shelf worn but the inside is possibly unread,
Contents,
1, The map is not the territory, 2, Sitting Well, 3, Plugging in, 4, Interactive Riding, 5, Symmetry, 6, The Challenge of Learning, 7, Mindwork, 8, Bodywork, 9, Fit and Able, 10, The Zen Competitor, epilogue, bibliography, index.
The companion book For the Good of the Horse is listed under veterinary and horse care.
This manual presents a map of riding and explains its basic biomechanical principles.
Mary Wanless asserts that behind the art of riding lies a science, which has laws of cause and effect.
Utilizing these laws turns the rider’s body into a sophisticated tool for influencing the horse, allowing her to mimic the techniques which talented riders use unknowingly.
There are vignettes which tell stories of riders she has taught world-wide, from relative novices to international competitors.
Chapters on learning, sports psychology, dismounted exercises and bodywork expand the ideas put forward in Ride With Your Mind and Masterclass
