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The equestrian skill-base and attitude which can take you on lovely hacks, galloping down a beach, hunting, competing at local shows and all the way to the Olympics, are developed from your first learning session at home. The skills and attitude you develop here and now are what will carry you through your life, writes internationally renowned equestrian coach Jen Marsden Hamilton. In A Jump Ahead, Hamilton illuminates this principle with beautiful photos, detailed illustrations and her trademark wit. Hamilton has coached countless riders and horses in her comprehensive training program for jumpers in riding arenas around the world for over 45 years. Now, for the first time, it is compiled in this concise book of exercises and insightful strategies to help you train with correctness and form good habits at home so you can be a star at competitions. Each chapter of this full-colour book provides riders and coaches with exercises of increasing complexity, including: detailed set-up instructions and illustrations; the purpose and strategy for the training session; and helpful tips, to ensure coaches, riders and horses are benefiting from correct practice at home. Hamilton's students appear throughout the book, sharing their experiences, demonstrating their successes, and endorsing the jumper training they have benefited from at clinics and lessons with Canada's highest accredited jumper coach. Riders of all levels who are interested in improving their performance in the competition arena will benefit from Hamilton's home-training system. Readers everywhere will enjoy Hamilton's straight-talking advice and wry humour. Forewords by renowned American coach and horseman George H. Morris, and New Zealand Olympian Clarke Johnstone.

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Jen Marsden Hamilton is an internationally renowned equestrian coach. Based in Canada, she travels throughout Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Kenya training horses and riders. For over 40 years Jen has combined her Bachelor of Education (Acadia University) with the most current coaching and equestrian training to nurture the next generation of star athletes. Jen developed and wrote the National Coaching Certification Program's (NCCP) Canada, Level III - Jumper. After sport-specifying the NCCP Level IV, she was the first coach to achieve that level. As a rider, Jen gained valuable experience that informs her coaching today. She placed fourth in both, the American Horse Show Association's Medal Finals and the Alfred B. Maclay Hunter Seat Equitation Finals at Madison Square Garden. Riding Wee Geordie she reached new heights in puissance classes, jumping six feet and higher. In 1975 Jen was the Martini and Rossi Canadian Horsewoman of the Year. As a coach, Jen has been recognized for her dedication with the Canadian Coaching Association's Year of the Coach Coaching Award in 1988, the 3M Coaching Canada Award for Coaching Excellence in 1996. She has also represented her country as a coach to young Canadian riders at international team competitions throughout North and South America. Cristina Wilkins is the Editor-in-Chief at Horses and People Magazine, an Australian-based, print magazine that delivers educational content with the aim of improving human-horse interactions, and safeguarding horse and human safety and welfare. The content and many of the images and illustrations in 'A Jump Ahead with Jen Hamilton' first appeared in a series of monthly articles in Horses and People Magazine and has been adapted for publishing in this book format. Liz has been a graphic designer for 20 years, she holds a Master's in Design, and BFA in Textiles and Fashion. With expertise in book design, branding, corporate identity, illustration, photography and technical manuals. Liz is the owner of Liz Hardy Design in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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