Ride With Your Mind Clinic
Following on from the hugely successful Ride With Your Mind Essentials, riding skills guru, Mary Wanless has a unique approach in improving your riding technique. Using photographs and clear explanations, Mary shows you how to improve your position and performance. A must for riders at all levels from the happy hacker to Grand Prix competitor.
Riding skills guru Mary Wanless looks at a series of common rider faults or problems and, through words and photographs, explains how to correct them. Each fault or problem is demonstrated by a different rider - some working at basic level, others advanced. Mary gives each rider a lesson, taking them through the (often subtle) changes they have to make, and recording their progress with specially taken photographs. Readers can witness the changes taking place and understand through Mary's gifted teaching HOW to make the necessary shift to improve their own riding skills. The 'before' and 'after' pictures show not only the improvements in the rider's position and effectiveness but also in their horse's way of going, for the two are interconnected.
Among the topics for in-depth discussion are rider position, muscle tone and stabilisation; how our minds and bodies learn new techniques or change old habits; rider asymmetry; mental attitudes; lateral work; advanced work; and faults such as tipping forward, leaning back, hollowing the back, rounding the back, and pulling on the inside rein.
The Author
Mary Wanless is the author of the highly successful Ride With Your Mind (published in America as The Natural Rider), Ride With Your Mind Masterclass, For the Good of the Rider, For the Good of the Horse and Ride With Your Mind Essentials; she has also produced eight training videos. As well as teaching riders of all abilities, from club level to international, in the UK and USA. She runs dismounted workshops and gives lecture demonstrations. She also lectures internationally on learning, body-mind integration, and personal development.
Reviews
"This is a book with a lot to offer. Mary Wanless explains the need for the instructor’s vocabulary to agree with the perception of the student and how this might not be such an easy thing to accomplish! In a series of case studies, she explains (with clear pictures) the common “ defaults” among riders of all levels of accomplishment and implants the more correct feeling. A really good reference book, especially if one hasn’t access to regular lessons, or if one is confused." British Dressage "Mary Wanless (BSc physics and BSc applied sports coaching) has developed an effective method of teaching based on an understanding of the biomechanics of riding and the instructor pupil communication styles that make learning riding skills easy. Mary tours both the UK and the USA giving lecture demonstrations and workshops and has produced eight training videos. Within the book the author examines a series of common rider faults and problems. Some of the topics covered are: tipping forward, symmetry and the training aids and focused concentration.
Each chapter is written in the form of a lesson in which Mary takes a rider through the changes they need to make to improve their riding skills and ultimately their horse's way of going, the results of which can be plainly seen with the "before" and "after" photographs. Throughout the book the reader is guided through a series of exercises and practical advice with the aid of diagrams and photographs and is encouraged to apply these ideas to their own everyday riding experiences. Published in hardback and illustrated with well drawn diagrams and full colour pictures throughout this book is a must have for all Mary Wanless fans past, present and future." East Anglia Rider July 2008