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A comprehensive training handbook on how to improve one's jumping. Better balance in the saddle, improved body control from head to toe, and increased influence with your seat are just a handful of the simple fixes offered in this straightforward training manual for jumping. Most of the suggestions provided require only a few minutes to learn and offer solutions for making jumping more enjoyable for both riders and their horses. By starting and ending each ride with these simple, easy, and effective fixes, equestrians will happily and efficiently replace old habits with new ones and get out of the riding rut we all find ourselves in at some point in our riding career. Aimed at both the amateur and competent rider – with particular emphasis on making jumping more enjoyable for both rider and their horse. 'Wendy Murdoch's excellent, yet simple, exercises are easy to follow, helping riders seek the correct position to be in balance with their horses. Better balance between horse and rider is not only safer but critical in maintaining your horse's confidence, athleticism, and soundness over time.' - Melanie Smith Taylor, Show Jumping Olympic Gold Medalist, Winner of the World Cup and Triple Crown of Show Jumping. AUTHOR Wendy Murdoch, an internationally recognised equestrian author, instructor and clinician for over 23 years, teaches her students how to do what great riders do naturally. Wendy's desire to understand the function of both horse and human, and love of teaching, capitalises on the most current learning theories in order to show riders how to exceed their own expectations. In 1984, while attaining her master's degree in equine reproductive physiology Wendy suffered a severe riding accident. Her self-rehabilitation started a quest to understand and answer the question of how to ride pain free, using the body as it was designed. Wendy's uncanny ability to find and study with the best people in a variety of fields and her profound curiosity make her unique. Wendy combines her creative talents with her scientific training to break down larger concepts of riding into simple, easy-to-do exercises for students of all ages, abilities and disciplines. Her ability to make learning enjoyable, engaging and fun through in-depth presentations both mounted and unmounted, which are easy to comprehend, helps her students connect the dots and achieve their goals.

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Many of the exercises can be performed off the horse and require as little as an exercise ball or a chair. If you re looking to improve your jumping position this winter, 40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes should give you plenty to practice while you re stuck indoors waiting for spring. The Chronicle of the Horse Simple exercises focus on rider position and biomechanics for better jumping. Murdoch offers exercises that can be practiced on the ground (no horse required!) as well as in the saddle. Horse Illustrated

If you've got five minutes to spare in your day, then Wendy Murdoch can show you 50 ways to fine-tune your riding skills . . . The book scores bonus points for its pleasing layout, full of four-color photos to illustrate each exercise. -- Horsemen's Yankee Pedlar on 50 5-Minute Fixes to Improve Your Riding

Many of the exercises can be performed off the horse and require as little as an exercise ball or a chair. ... If you're looking to improve your jumping position this winter, 40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes should give you plenty to practice while you're stuck indoors waiting for spring. -- The Chronicle of the Horse

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Wendy Murdoch is a writer and a riding instructor who is trained in the Centered Riding technique. She is the author of several books, including 50 5-Minute Fixes to Improve Your Riding and Simplify Your Riding, the creator of the DVD set Ride Like a Natural, and a contributor to numerous publications such as EQUUS, NRHA Reiner, Practical Horseman, and USDF Connection. She lives in Washington, Virginia.

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