The Dressage Rider's Essential Notebook This uniquely designed notebook maximizes your learning from lessons and clinics and aids in memorizing dressage tests. It has been specifically formatted to record notes from a single lesson on two side-by-side pages. The lined notes page on the left has sections to focus the student on the most important concepts and activities of the lesson. On the facing right hand page are two 20 x 60 meter dressage court diagrams with a dot grid background for accurate plotting of school figures, dressage movements, and test patterns. Further, the notebook features an index system for students to refer back to all the lessons on any topic that they wish. Record a year's worth of weekly lessons White paper can be written on with ink pen, pencil, colored pencil, or gel pens. 115 pages Reference page featuring 20 x 60 meter dressage court with dimensions and common figures Unique index feature for future reference Western dressage rider's will find it very useful too! Cover is a matte finish. Makes a great gift. Look for our other journals for event riders, hunter/jumpers, endurance riders, and horse-lovers of all ages. Designed and used by Stacie Campuzano a USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist and credentialed teacher with over 20 years of experience in training and teaching riders in dressage and horsemanship.

ORGANIZER ALL IMPORTANT DETAILS OF DRESSAGE RIDER'S LESSON ON ARENA This dressage rider's essential notebook helps to improve your learning from dressage riding lessons and also helps you to memorize dressage tests by drawing your notes in the different arena diagrams included. The arena diagrams are designed in dot grid background, which would allow you to graph your dressage movements and test patterns easily. It includes: Lesson Plans (Specially Designed In Cornell Notes Style) Arena Diagrams (20 x 40m + 20 x 60m Small / Large Arena Diagrams, Designed in Dot Grid Background) Details: 8.5" x 11" Large Size Durable Matte Cover Get your Equestrian Dressage Rider's Essential Notebook With Arena Diagrams now!

When owning, training, riding, and showing horses, there is a certain “look” to which one aspires. World-class “turnout”—a horse in peak condition, perfectly coiffed and luminous with health, outfitted with gleaming and well-fit tack appropriate for his sport—can take your breath away. And while it can certainly play a significant role in a competitive rider’s success, it is just as appealing to have any horse “groomed to the nines,” whether he’s headed for an afternoon lesson or just out on the trail. Achieving this superior look is not just about clean tack, shiny brass, spotless stockings, or perfect braids. The most important steps are in the day-to-day nitty-gritty of grooming and caring for the horse: noticing “something not-quite-right” about the way the horse looks or moves before it becomes “something wrong”; brushing and combing and trimming a little every day so the horse’s skin and coat remain healthy; knowing how to prepare a horse properly for training, and how to cool him down afterward. Now, two of the best professional grooms in the business share their trade secrets, with over 1200 color photographs accompanying the ultimate modern-day guide for all riders who want their horses to look and feel their best.

A fantastically detailed and uniquely organized dressage reference for the rider. Discover the what, the how, and–most importantly–the why of more than 100 dressage movements. Color photographs of riders of various levels and on different breeds of horse show how each movement should look when ridden correctly. Each movement is clearly defined. Explanations include common mistakes and how to avoid them. Readers find out the benefits of each exercise and how it contributes to the “bigger picture” of the dressage training scale. “This book appealed to me,” says gold-medal-winning Olympian Isabell Werth. “Especially important is the emphasis on the meaning of the individual dressage movements within the overall context of a horse’s training. Only the rider who understands why the movements are important and what their purposes are can build a dressage horse systematically. This applies to both the development of the horse's muscles and the development of his mind.” Throughout, emphasis is placed on the horse as an individual and how it is the rider's responsibility to learn to customize movements and lessons to benefit any horse, with his particular physical and psychological characteristics in mind. Practical and easy-to-follow, this valuable resource provides explanations in seconds that will last a lifetime of rides.

The Rider's Essential Notebook for Eventing and Working Equitation Riders is a must have tool for getting the most out of your lessons and training sessions. The left hand pages feature unique lined notes that help you focus on the critical instructions in lessons while the right hand pages facing provide diagrams for marking out arena patterns ridden both in dressage and with jumps or obstacles. Features include: 8.5" x 11" size pages for plenty of space to write in Arena measurements and common figures diagrams for a 20 x 40 meter court Arena diagrams on dot grid to accurately draw patterns and measure jump or obstacle distances Unique index system so you can easily refer back to a lessons that covered specific topics Sturdy binding and a matte finish that travels well to the barn and shows Record up to a year's worth of weekly lessons! Memorize dressage tests, map out courses, plan you training and more... Makes a great gift for yourself, barn mates, trainers, and any horse crazy rider in your life. Designed and used by Stacie Campuzano a USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist and credentialed teacher with over 20 years of experience in training and teaching riders in dressage and horsemanship.

"Charles Harris was the first and only pupil to complete the full three-year course (1948-1951) at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Every day he wrote down what he had learned, illustrating each point and filling two thick quarto notebooks. These numbered notes are faithfully reproduced just as he wrote them and provide the reader with a fascinating and unique record of classical horsemanship."--Book jacket.

There is no such thing as a “golden cue” that works for everyone 100% of the time. Therefore, the more cues a coach has in their toolbox, the more likely they will be able to effectively communicate with their athletes. Coaches use cues—short, easy-to-remember phrases—to help athletes perform movements correctly as well as to convey useful sports psychology perspectives. Athletes commonly hear movement cues like “Crush the Can” and “Grip the Ground” along with motivational cues like “Consistency is King.” A passionate coach, lifelong athlete, and advanced degree holder in kinesiology, Karl Eagleman, creator of the popular Whiteboard Daily Instagram, has put together a valuable resource for coaches, athletes, and anyone who wants to improve their own movement. The Whiteboard Daily Book of Cues contains a comprehensive collection of illustrations drawn on a whiteboard—a medium that virtually all coaches are familiar with. It boasts the largest list of cues ever compiled, covering Olympic weightlifting, powerlifting, gymnastics, kettlebell exercises, and monostructural movements (running, rowing, jumping rope, etc.). Each illustration is hand drawn in a simple, stylized way to make the cues easy to retain and to utilize during training. No two athletes are the same; we all learn in our own unique ways. By providing hundreds of cues, this book will help coaches and athletes learn a new way to understand movement for themselves and/or to communicate safe, effective movement to others.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the remarkable story of the heroic rescue of priceless horses in the closing days of World War II WINNER OF THE PEN AWARD FOR RESEARCH NONFICTION In the chaotic last days of the war, a small troop of battle-weary American soldiers captures a German spy and makes an astonishing find—his briefcase is empty but for photos of beautiful white horses that have been stolen and kept on a secret farm behind enemy lines. Hitler has stockpiled the world’s finest purebreds in order to breed the perfect military machine—an equine master race. But with the starving Russian army closing in, the animals are in imminent danger of being slaughtered for food. With only hours to spare, one of the U.S. Army’s last great cavalrymen, Colonel Hank Reed, makes a bold decision—with General George Patton’s blessing—to mount a covert rescue operation. Racing against time, Reed’s small but determined force of soldiers, aided by several turncoat Germans, steals across enemy lines in a last-ditch effort to save the horses. Pulling together this multistranded story, Elizabeth Letts introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters: Alois Podhajsky, director of the famed Spanish Riding School of Vienna, a former Olympic medalist who is forced to flee the bomb-ravaged Austrian capital with his entire stable in tow; Gustav Rau, Hitler’s imperious chief of horse breeding, a proponent of eugenics who dreams of genetically engineering the perfect warhorse for Germany; and Tom Stewart, a senator’s son who makes a daring moonlight ride on a white stallion to secure the farm’s surrender. A compelling account for animal lovers and World War II buffs alike, The Perfect Horse tells for the first time the full story of these events. Elizabeth Letts’s exhilarating tale of behind-enemy-lines adventure, courage, and sacrifice brings to life one of the most inspiring chapters in the annals of human valor. Praise for The Perfect Horse “Winningly readable . . . Letts captures both the personalities and the stakes of this daring mission with such a sharp ear for drama that the whole second half of the book reads like a WWII thriller dreamed up by Alan Furst or Len Deighton. . . . The right director could make a Hollywood classic out of this fairy tale.”—The Christian Science Monitor “Letts, a lifelong equestrienne, eloquently brings together the many facets of this unlikely, poignant story underscoring the love and respect of man for horses.”—Kirkus Reviews