Former international event rider Eric Smiley has brought along his
own top-level horses for decades. Now he taps his immense knowledge
to help riders whose horses may not have had "the right start."
Every horse comes with his own "baggage"-behavior or training
issues, minor or significant, that may be difficult to pinpoint or
resolve. In these pages, Smiley addresses the most common problems
he has seen over the years in dressage, eventing, and show jumping,
including: - Problems with head and neck position. - Connection
issues. - Failure to follow the rules of forward, straight, and
regular. - Difficulty with collection. - Lack of consistency.
Smiley teaches readers how to identify what isn't working by
looking at how things should work. Then he walks us through
dismantling and reassembling the issues, providing an
easy-to-follow system for determining what's potentially wrong with
a horse and choosing sensible exercises for fixing it. He
introduces a troubleshooting five-point system: - Ask yourself,
"What is the problem?" - Ask, "How, when, and why did it arise?" -
Ask, "Why does it need solving?" - Formulate a plan. - Analyze the
results in the context of "now" and what they may mean for the
future. Layers and shifts of understanding in horses combined with
the physical and psychological challenges of riding can often make
solving problems that arise seem complicated, and sometimes it is
difficult to know where to even begin. Smiley's system helps
readers find that "start point" and map out a sensible plan for
future training. He shows how to determine when something may have
become an issue for your horse or your performance, ways to try and
avoid it happening in the first place, and of course, offers highly
practical solutions to employ when you find you do have a problem.
Smiley's goal is to "always leave people and horses with a positive
journey to go on, with the prospect of 'better to come.'" With its
usefulness, cross-disciplinary approach, and optimism, The Sport
Horse Problem Solver is all you need to achieve success in
partnership with your horse, wherever you are in your journey
together.
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