Welcome to your journey in equine excellence. A career in the equine industry can be very rewarding and lead to extraordinary experiences.
Whatever your career aspirations; caring for horses, riding professionally, leading treks and trails or coaching the next generation, there’s a pathway for you.
This is your record of development and achievements within the BHS Career Pathways. Combine your passion for horses and progress your career learning practical, real-world skills.
Stages 1-3.
Welcome to your journey in equine excellence. A career in the equine industry can be very rewarding and lead to extraordinary experiences.
Whatever your career aspirations; caring for horses, riding professionally, leading treks and trails or coaching the next generation, there's a pathway for you.
This is your record of development and achievements within the BHS Career Pathways. Combine your passion for horses and progress your career learning practical, real-world skills.
Stage 4.
Riding skills guru Mary Wanless looks at a series of common rider faults or problems and, through words and photos, 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.
Author: Mary Wanless.
