Customer Reviews

Beginning Western Exercises (Arena Pocket Guides)

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3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I thought the book was good over all, it had good suggestions on things to do, but In the first Exercise the Halt it says " the halt should be square and balanced" So how do you accomplish that? I thought that half the lesson and been left out.

If you have just begun western riding- like me, you will love this book. I had been riding English for 6 years, and found that western was a bit differant. This book helped me get my balance and courage. I really reccomemend this book!

This book is completely useless for someone learning western riding. It has detailed exercise description with no information about how to actually do them. For example, several pages are dedicated to walk-jog-walk exercises, with no description about how to get a horse to transition from a walk to a jog and from a jog to a walk.

For the circle exercises the advice it to "use your inside leg to activate the inside hind leg (I assume of the horse)" -- but HOW?

I learned nothing from this book and it was a complete waste of money.

This book was completely useless to me. I was hoping for a book that would have interesting and varied arena exercises for young horses such as turns on the forehand and rear, spirals, backing two steps- forward two- back three- forward three, etc. Things to work on when you can't get out on a trail.

Instead, it is a simple book covering such basics as how to halt, how to walk, jog, lope. Apparently it is intended for someone who is entering a western pleasure class. Not what I was looking for.

Being some one who has been riding all her life, this book is useless. Also i already started with western riding. I was hoping this book would give me a little more insight about 'how to' do exercises. In stead it is a book for people who know absolutely nothing about horse riding, english or western.
So if you are beginning to take classes for horse riding, this little book might help you. It is very clear on how to sit, feel movements ect. Explains the different gaites and what to expect to feel when riding a horse.

so for me it wasn't what i expecting to get, hence the 1 star. But looking from a beginners perpective it could be a 4 star book(let).

i found this book helpfull and easy to understand. it has the necessary instructions to get one on the way to western pleasure riding.