BioMechanical Riding and Dressage: A Rider's Atlas [Unabridged] [Spiral-bound]

Dr. Nancy Nicholson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2006

Biomechanical riding is about a strategy for riding horses. It is about approaching riding with a plan for cooperative interaction between you and your horse. The strategy integrates principles or concepts with their execution or technique of riding. This Atlas is explanatory concerning relations between rider and horse. It is a connecting book about the intersection of principle and technique in several literatures and is not a replacement for your other books.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 178 pages
• Publisher: Zip Publishing; First edition (2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977810216
• ISBN-13: 978-0977810215
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,000,994 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly detailed and worthy of study reference material, September 2, 2008

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L. Peyton Adams "lpadams2" (Madisonville, KY USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: BioMechanical Riding and Dressage: A Rider's Atlas (Spiral-bound)

Understanding kinesics for the rider's interaction with the horse lead me to order this book which came today and it is so full of data and rich in detail it deserves detailed analysis and study. I am hoping to get through it by next week but in reading it already my wife and I have learned things that are making us think as riders on how to interact with a horse. We are also trying to rehab a mare that may need some stretching out to repair past damage before we encountered her and this may be of aid to us in that effort.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Wrong execution of the right idea?, February 28, 2011

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Karen H "tallysgal" (TX, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BioMechanical Riding and Dressage: A Rider's Atlas (Spiral-bound)

I purchased this book after seeing several of the illustrations used in a lecture containing riding biomechanics information. I figured the book would certainly be extremely useful considering the quality of the illustrations I had already seen.

I found this book to truly have wonderful drawings illustrating many aspects of the biomechanics of riding. The author truly understands the material and presents it with tremendous detail...too much detail at times, bogging the reader down with references to and descriptions of other sources within the body of the text (that is what foot notes and bibliographies are for).

The photographs used extensively throughout this book are mediocre at best. The quality of the photography is poor, the horses used are "average" and most do not look capable of quality execution of the movements being presented. Many of the photos are taken in what appears to be winter so the horse's coat and the rider's apparel create bulk that detracts from being able to see the riders' seat position or the horses legs adequately. Many of the photos contain dark horses with dark tack and dark rider apparel, creating an almost impossible situation for anyone trying to see the finer points of position, etc. Would have been nice to see as near perfect execution of the movements as possible in good quality, well thought out photos using top notch horses and riders....would have been more helpful.

Also, regarding the photos, when in series (such as showing the phases of a flying change), they are lined up and numbered from right to left. Very confusing to the average reader of the English language!

I can see this being a good reference regarding the effects of the riders seat on the horse's way of going. Lots of good information toward that purpose. I'm just disappointed in the photographic illustrations.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars good info, but bad writer, February 28, 2011

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This review is from: BioMechanical Riding and Dressage: A Rider's Atlas (Spiral-bound)

Unique view of biomechanics - illustrations helpful. But, author is verbose and egotistical. Very distracted by poor writing, confusing graphics and dangling references. Some good stuff, if you can power through all of that.