"From Horsemanship to the High School"
From basic training and healthy movement through to lessons of the High School. A practical handbook for everyone who wants to gymnastic their horse through dressage. This book is a systematic guide for beginners and advanced riders, illustrating the path step by step with rich imagery.
Over her many years as a trainer, Silke has succeeded in building a bridge between Horsemanship and "serious" dressage — "serious" in inverted commas, because in reality the exercises are anything but intimidating. But they are focused, attentive, felt and heartfelt. Silke and her team demonstrate that once you have established this kind of communication, it is no longer about whether the horse moves — you now have the capacity to focus on how the horse moves. Silke's book contains many step-by-step guides, along with numerous tips for what to do when things don't go quite as hoped.
256 pages in large format, more than 600 photographs and graphics, and over 450 exercises.