50 5-Minute Fixes to Improve Your Riding

Simple Solutions for Better Position and Performance in No Time

Wendy Murdoch

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5 minutes a day is all the time you need to achieve:
  • Better balance in the saddle
  • Improved body control from head to toe
  • Increased influence with your seat
  • Flawless leg position and subtle aiding
  • Quieter, softer hands and contact your horse can trust
  • Less physical stiffness, tension, and riding-related pain
  • Confidence in your ability to communicate with your horse

 

Plus, in just 5 minutes you can improve a horse that's:

  • Unwilling to go forward or "dead" to the leg
  • Hollow-backed, high-headed, or above the bit
  • Heavy on the forehand and unbalanced
  • A chronic "puller," "leaner," or "head-tosser"

Start or end your riding sessions with Wendy Murdoch's 5-Minute Fixes, and you'll be amazed how quickly you can replace old habits with new ones, get out of your "riding rut," and transform what you can't do to what you can do…naturally, capably, comfortably, and consistently alongside a happy riding partner—your horse.

 
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Author: Wendy Murdoch

Format: Hardcover, eBook

Page Count: 224

Illustrations: 199 color photographs, 41 illustrations

ISBN: 9781570764554

By Wendy Murdoch

Wendy Murdoch, an internationally recognized 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 capitalizes on the most current learning theories in order 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.

Her studies include apprenticeship with Sally Swift, extensive training with Linda Tellington-Jones, Dr. Joyce Harman, Jon Zahourek (Anatomy in Clay®) and Dr. Hilary Clayton. To help her guide students towards better function Wendy became a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner® and continues her study with Dr. Feldenkrais' first assistant, Mia Segal. Her fascination with the mind/body connection between horse and rider has led her explore courses outside the equine world and bring that information to her students.

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.

Wendy writes articles for a wide variety of magazines and is the author of 50 5-Minute Fixes to Improve Your Riding, Simplify Your Riding and the Ride Like a Natural Part 1–3 DVD series (murdochmethod.com).

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