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Horseback Riding 101

Lesson 5: Where Do I Go From Here?

Suggested Reading

Read pages 17 through 23 in Centered Riding by Sally Swift. Begin to read chapters at will in Ride With Your Mind by Mary Wanless. Read Chapter Eight in Stephen Budiansky's The Nature of Horses.

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Lessons

Introduction
Lesson 1: Grooming and Tacking up
Lesson 2: Basic Rider Equipment for Safe Riding
Lesson 3: Leading, Mounting and Dismounting, and Basic Position
Lesson 4: Beginning to Ride: Walk and Halt
Lesson 5: Where Do I Go From Here?
• Basic riding theory and philosophy
• Theory
• How to turn corners
• How to reverse direction
• How to work in the open, without a fence line
• How to maintain a good walk, and why
• No pain......lots of gain
• Suggested Reading
Lesson 6: Basics of the Trot
Lesson 7: Beginning to Post theTrot
Lesson 8: Getting Good at Trotting