Selected Product: | Ride Smart: Improve Your Horsemanship Skills on the Ground and in the Saddle (Western Horseman Books) Paperback Edition: 1st Author: Craig Cameron Publisher: Western Horseman Release Date: 2004-08-01 ISBN-10: 091164766X ISBN-13: 9780911647662 List Price: $21.95 Average Customer Rating: | | Natural Horse-Man-Ship: Six Keys to a Natural Horse-Human Relationship ISBN-10: 1585747122 ISBN-13: 0024933747122 List Price:$17.95 Clinton Anderson's Downunder Horsemanship: Establishing Respect and Control for English and Western Riders ISBN-10: 1570762848 ISBN-13: 9781570762840 List Price:$29.95 Natural Horse-Man-Ship: Six Keys to a Natural Horse-Human Relationship ISBN-10: 1585747122 ISBN-13: 9781585747122 List Price:$17.95 Helpful Hints For Horsemen: Dozens Of Handy Tips for the Ranch, Barn, and Tack Room ISBN-10: 1585747114 ISBN-13: 9781585747115 List Price:$15.95 Starting Colts: Catching / Sacking Out / Driving / First Ride / First 30 Days / Loading ISBN-10: 1585748501 ISBN-13: 9781585748501 List Price:$14.95 Ranch Horsemanship: How to Ride Like the Cowboys Do (Western Horseman Books) ISBN-10: 0911647651 ISBN-13: 9780911647655 List Price:$21.95 |
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Under one title, Craig Cameron brings together a thorough look at horses and their nature and good, solid horsemanship skills that suit both novice and experienced riders. The book is divided into sections, each dealing with a different aspect of horsemanship. The first delves into the psychological and physical realities of horses as a species and how man can best understand them to develop a positive, partnering relationship with them. Other sections cover groundwork, including early handling, round-pen exercises, and riding techniques that enable the horse to perform basic as well as intricate maneuvers. Each chapter includes interesting sidebars that complement the main text. Sidebars include "True Story," an anecdote or story that relates to the chapter's subject matter; "Here's How," a tip that pertains to the chapter's focus, and "A Better Way," a troubleshooting section that offers a step-by-step exercise people can do to work the horse through a problem noted in the chapter.
Great Book | Customer Rating: | I recently recived my Ride Smart book in the mail. Its my first proper training + horsemanship book....And i absolutely LOVED IT!!! The book it-self was great condition and WOW the photography in it are great! very big and good quality! I loved this book it has everything in it from how horses lived in the wild, behaviour, instincs, breeding, how to read horses, bare back riding, tack, selecting the right horse, ground work, leading, longe line, first ride to advanced movements such as rollbacks and spins and float loading and HEAPS more!! Each chapter has "A Better Way" and true stories.
This book is one in a million! i would defintaly reconmend it to any person who is wanting to improve their relationship with there horse! | Ride Smart | Customer Rating: | | This is a great book that will help improve the horsemanship skills of anyone willing to spend a little time and effort. The text is plain and simple . . . its more like having a conversation with Craig than reading a school book! The ample illustrations really help with understanding the concepts and techniques the author has developed. I'm very happy that I have my copy. | The best | Customer Rating: | | If you own and work horses, this book is a must and at a great price. | Wonderful read. | Customer Rating: | | I've learned a lot from this great book. The user comment made before mine is an excellent review. Big beautiful pictures, clear understandable information, and plently of down-to-earth lessons. Craig has taught me unforgetable things on my relationship with any horse I come to know and work with. GREAT BOOK. | Beneficial for Anyone | Customer Rating: | This review comes from a novice rider. I have been taking weekly lessons for a little over a year -- in English riding. Thus, I think it says something for this book that I read it cover to cover and thoroughly enjoyed it, even though it is western focused.
The book begins by teaching you about horse psychology, horseman psychology, and equipement, then offers advice on selecting a horse, followed by several chapters of advice on riding. After this, about half way through the book, it begins to teach training methods, and chapter by chapter carries you from first putting a halter on the horse all the way through advanced maneuvers and trailer loading.
Each chapter contains many sidebars with extra hints and tips, explanations of the purpose of some of the techniques, and personal anecdotes that reinforce the lessons and demonstrate the importance of them.
If a picture truly is worth a thousand words, then this book contains several extra volumes withing its pages. It is filled with large, color, quality pictures that clearly show the author himself doing the things he teaches.
Craig Cameron teaches natural horsemanship. You won't find advice on striking your horse in this book. One of his mottos is to make "the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard," not painful.
When I do venture into western riding, I will be much better prepared for it by having read this book. I highly recommend it to riders of any discipline, at any level of training. Even if you never ride western and never train a horse of your own, you will benefit from reading this book. |
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