What your Horse Wants You to Know,
What Horses’ “Bad” Behavior Means, and How to Correct it
By Gincy Self Bucklin
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With an Amazon customer average of five stars, this book focuses on horse behavior and offers effective, step-by-step methods for developing communication with horses. Shows how to use the entire body for communication and emphasizes the rewards of being patient and consistent. Includes such topics as bathing, biting, doctoring, feeding problems, stall problems, panicking, and more. Softcover. It takes time for a horse to learn everything we want him to know. If we don’t make our intentions clear to him in ways that he can understand, or if we don’t listen to what he wants, problems may result. Featuring easy-to-follow, step-by-step advice, What Your Horse Wants You to Know reveals how to communicate effectively with your horse to create an atmosphere of mutual cooperation. What Your Horse Wants You to Know focuses on improving your horse’s behavior on the ground, so you can develop relationship and communications skills without the more challenging problems that arise once you’re on his back. • Use your entire body to communicate with your horse • Show your horse that you respect his needs and feelings • Be patient and consistent with your horse while having fun • Understand your horse’s fears and overcome them • Respond appropriately to physiological or nutritional problems • Use praise to make your horse feel confident and successful
How Your Horse Wants You To Ride
Starting Out Starting Over
by Gincy Self Bucklin
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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
More How Your Horse Wants you to Ride
Advanced Basics: The Fun Begins
by Gincy Self Bucklin
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This follow-up to How Your Horse Wants You to Ride helps intermediate to advanced riders improve their communication with their mounts and polish their overall riding skills. Readers get a complete tutorial–much of which can be found nowhere else–on taking their riding skills to the next level. Gincy Self Bucklin (Narragansett, RI) teaches riding at all levels. Her books include How Your Horse Wants You to Ride and What Your Horse Wants You to Know From the Back Cover Take your understanding of horses and riding to a new level. In this sequel to How Your Horse Wants You to Ride: Starting Out—Starting Over, Gincy Self Bucklin explores in greater depth the three basics: relationship, riding without interfering, and communication. She then covers the rest of the essential riding skills, including cantering, jumping, and cross country, providing a comprehensive foundation for upper-level work. Bucklin introduces the serious student to advanced concepts, presented in a way that is easy to understand. You’ll learn: • How to use leading to improve your rein skills and your horse’s responses • How free-longeing helps you and your horse learn more about his body • Why “riding your horse straight” isn’t as simple as you thought • How to help your horse deal with downhills • How to really sit the canter • Why jumping is one of the easiest skills
Hi, Gincy–
I am the woman writing about aging and riding, to whom you responded re the Granby Regional Horse Council. I have no idea where you live or how to reach you any other way than this. I am interviewing in person only and only in Massachusetts. Perhaps by phone over the winter. Are your books available at Amazon.com? I am on dial-up, so accessing multiple sites is difficult and I have already failed to get contact through another part of your website. I would appreciate your telephone number and address. Thanks.
Helen Hills