Coaching the rider *

Th definitive text on teaching the rider, this book covers all aspects of teaching technique including beginner riders, examination candidates and professionals competing up to international level. Areas covered include: a history of riding instructions; teaching and coaching as a career; designing lesson plans; communication and people skills; goal setting and achieving that goal; psychology of teaching and how people learn; the horse/rider relationship; teaching the disabled, children and beginner adults; coaching for competition; overcoming nerves; and rider limitations. The book starts by examining the role of teachers and what motivates their pupils, and moves on to the design of lesson plans for beginners through to competition riders, and how to carry out those plans. The book concludes with the theory and psychology of teaching and learning and its application to the horse and rider.