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Learn to ride correctly, safely, and confidently

In this breakthrough guide, renowned riding expert Gincy Self Bucklin offers adult riders a unique, proven method for developing a good physical, mental, and emotional relationship with a horse. Whether you're a beginner, a more experienced rider looking to enhance your skills, or someone who used to ride but is reluctant to try again, Bucklin's step-by-step exercises-slowly and carefully practiced first on the ground and then on your horse-will have you riding with confidence and without fear. You'll build a safe and caring partnership with your horse as you:
* Understand how your actions affect your horse
* Improve your form, release tensions, and find balance
* Communicate with your horse to gain his trust
* Stay in charge without being controlling
* Observe your horse's responses and learn from them
* Increase your horse's comfort-both physically and psychologically

""If you' ve ever said to yourself, 'Why can' t I . . . ?,' you' ll find the answer here to why you can' t, and exactly how to solve the problem. Whatever your level, you'll gain greater understanding and become a better rider and horseman from reading this book.""
-George H. Morris, internationally renowned clinician, USEF Show Jumping vice-president, ARIA master instructor, and member of the U. S. Equestrian Federation Board of Directors

""How Your Horse Wants You To Ride is chock full of innovative and practical tools presented in a thoroughly entertaining style. A delightful read for riders at all levels!""
-Jane Savoie, olympic alternate and author of That Winning Feeling!, Cross Train Your Horse, More Cross Training, and It's Not Just About the Ribbons

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Learn to ride correctly, safely, and confidently

In this breakthrough guide, renowned riding expert Gincy Self Bucklin offers adult riders a unique, proven method for developing a good physical, mental, and emotional relationship with a horse. Whether you’re a beginner, a more experienced rider looking to enhance your skills, or someone who used to ride but is reluctant to try again, Bucklin’s step-by-step exercises–slowly and carefully practiced first on the ground and then on your horse–will have you riding with confidence and without fear. You’ll build a safe and caring partnership with your horse as you:

Understand how your actions affect your horse
Improve your form, release tensions, and find balance
Communicate with your horse to gain his trust
Stay in charge without being controlling
Observe your horse’s responses and learn from them
Increase your horse’s comfort–both physically and psychologically

"If you’ ve ever said to yourself, ‘Why can’ t I . . . ?,’ you’ ll find the answer here to why you can’ t, and exactly how to solve the problem. Whatever your level, you’ll gain greater understanding and become a better rider and horseman from reading this book."
–George H. Morris, internationally renowned clinician, USEF Show Jumping vice-president, ARIA master instructor, and member of the U. S. Equestrian Federation Board of Directors

"How Your Horse Wants You To Ride is chock full of innovative and practical tools presented in a thoroughly entertaining style. A delightful read for riders at all levels!"
–Jane Savoie, olympic alternate and author of That Winning Feeling!, Cross Train Your Horse, More Cross Training, and It’s Not Just About the Ribbons

About the Author

GINCY SELF BUCKLIN, the daughter of well-known horsewoman and equestrian author Margaret Cabell Self, has sixty plus years of riding, training, and teaching experience. She is certified as an Expert Instructor by the American Riding Instructor’s Association. Bucklin is also the author of What Your Horse Wants You to Know (Wiley).

Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Howell Book House; 1 edition (October 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0764570994
ISBN-13: 978-0764570995
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 9.6 inches
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Average Customer Review: 53 customer reviews
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Athenah

Get those riding basics perfected!

September 30, 2009

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Just having leg cues explained fully and clearly is reason enough to buy this book, and then it offers so much more!

This book has helped my Western Trail riding. Sure most of the photos are with an English saddle and tack however it applies overall to good riding basics for any discipline. It is the best book I have ever purchased for clear direction for specific maneuvers. It includes WHY I should do it this way, and how it effects the horse I am riding. I wish I bought this book first, and saved my money by not buying some of the others. It is easy to read, easy to reference, and easy to apply the information. No gimmicks. No Memberships. I think advanced riders would gain from the book as well, as a refresher.

It has helped me overcome fear, gain confidence, and improve my communication in the saddle (the book was intended for a rider like myself). I rode "way back when" and now have come back to horses after some decades. Being older complicates matters. Even after 4 years of riding and owning horses I was still not back to my old level and I was frustrated. This book has jump-started my return to a beloved pastime. I have read it cover to cover, and will continue to reference this book for many years to come.

No one gets to borrow my book, as borrowed books this good never get returned. Instead I send them the Amazon link to buy their own!

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Henwhisperer

How Your Horse Wants You to Ride, good advice

August 9, 2007

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How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Starting Out, Starting Over

If our horses could have a verbal conversation with us, it would be about how they want us to ride on their backs. So, if that is the information you are looking for, this book will do that for you. Coming to horses late in life, with only weekend trail riding and no ownership in my background, learning to train my horse and ride her has, at times, been overwhelming. All bad habits that horses have are from bad training, not from stubbornness or naturally occurring mean spiritedness. Every interaction we have with our horses teaches them something, good or bad. Gincy is a patient person, I know from interacting with her on her Riding with Confidence list group on Yahoo. She has great insights into muscle memory, fear, breathing, etc. and the way those things cause horses to react in one way or another. How Your Horse wants you to ride is not a quick fix answer. It is deep and thoughtful requiring work on the part of the owner/rider. The reward is as great and worth striving for. After all, if you have a horse, you want to have fun with it, not be fearful of it.

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Excellent book...but not for me - yet

November 15, 2009

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Because I bought this book on the strength of all the positive reviews, I thought it only fair to give a slightly different perspective. This is definitely an excellent and thought-provoking book, but if you're really 'starting out' as a rider, and looking for a basics book, this may not be for you. I learn by reading, so thought this would be perfect, but it assumes a little bit too much knowledge for the stage I'm in, which is brand new beginner. I know that I'll go back to it later, and I'll get a lot out of it then, but I need a more basic book to get me started.

So do buy this book, but if you're a true beginner like me, you might also need something else. (I really wish Michael Smith's Getting the Most from Riding Lessons was for Western riding as well as English.)

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Jean W. Waller

A great relationship book for horse lovers

March 5, 2007

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This book has saved me from giving up on my return to horsemanship at the age of 50. I am a beginning western rider and thought I could pick up where I left off 35 years ago. Did not work and I was so unhappy and frustrated. This book gave me practical tools to rebuild my own confidence and build a positive trusting relationship with my horse. This book is not so much about riding horses as it is about building a good relationship with a horse and the rider's general horsemanship abilities and confidence. I have the What Your Horse Wants You to Know also, and will buy anything this author writes. My only complaint is that the book should come with several hours of personal instruction by Gincy, I would love to see her at work! I highly recommend this practical book for anyone struggling with fears having to do with horses, but especially "mature" riders returning to horses.

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MPS

Maximizing your time in the saddle!

November 20, 2010

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If you have limited time and resources, this book can help make the most of your time in the saddle.

Having no experience whatsoever with horses, I was given a few months of horseback riding lessons after my fortieth birthday fulfilling a long time dream of learning some of the basics. I figured I would never become a good rider, but at least wanted to feel comfortable saying yes if a friend invited me to ride. I got hooked on riding and decided to continue. Frankly, I enjoyed time on the ground with the horse as much as in the saddle and wanted the experience to be pleasant for both of us, but had a feeling the horse only tolerated my riding (two 1-hour sessions/week).

I liked the fact that the book is written from the horses perspective so I thought I would give it a try. With such limited knowledge there is a lot I don't really understand about the book, though she has quite a simple, though detailed way of explaining things. But I've gotten tips that have made drastic improvements in my riding, things I would have never discovered on my own. She gives lots of exercises to do at home, with a chair or standing up, in front of a mirror or practicing with ropes that are very helpful. I don't have to wait until my precious hour on horseback to practice and learn.

"How your Horse Wants You to Ride" is a book I will use as a resource for as long as I have the privilege to ride. It will take me years to digest the author's more than 60 years of experience. Yet I saw results right away. As a novice, I bought it along with a book that had lots of nice pictures and few words. I go back and forth between the two, but to improve riding skills, this was the book for me!

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Loaned a copy by my trainer, had to buy my own

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The best riding guide!

Now we finally get to the work. Finally, somebody that can break it down and make it all make sense. I could have saved some bruises and falls, had I read this a long time ago.Read more

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Great for starting out and as a refresher

I actually bought this for my husband because he doesn't ride as much as I do and (apparently) I'm not a good instructor!Read more

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Back in the Saddle!!!

It's been awhile, but Ol' Hops is finally back in the saddle. And I credit Gincy Self Bucklin's fine book for getting my tipsy tush off the sofa and back on the bronco (or...Read more

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