Ride Smarter!

Coralie Smyth believes that using the mind effectively is the most important aspect of smart riding since the mind controls everything else. This excellent book combines advanced learning methods and modern training techniques and then shows you how to apply them from time management to controlling your emotions and preventing physical tension.

Publisher: Half Halt Press
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 186
Author: Coralie Smyth
Author Notes: Coralie Smyth is an EA NCAS Intro Coach, specialising in dressage. After leaving school she studied Arts (Psychology, Music, English and Philosophy) at Sydney University, at the same time achieving Honours in Music at the Conservatorium of Sydney. Sporting accomplishments included recognition in gymnastics, springboard diving, and trampoline, both as competitor and coach. The skills gained in these activities gave an awareness of the body in space, which has been very relevant to riding. In her early twenties Coralie went to the Far East as a professional entertainer, eventually marrying in Hong Kong and living there for eight more years running a chain of nightclubs and restaurants. It was there that she learned about acupuncture, Taekwondo and Oriental philosophy. These interests also had a strong effect on her approach to the psychological aspects of riding, and the necessity for mental flexibility and relaxation. On her return to Australia she became involved with teaching and was astonished to find that riding instruction in the late eighties was very authoritarian, with little understanding of the principles of learning. This revelation led her to begin writing Ride Smarter, which then grew into a book based on equestrian sport psychology, published by Half Halt Press, USA. After becoming a qualified trainer of teachers, she was finding herself more and more involved with business, lecturing and consulting on Marketing/Promotion, Website Development and Small Business Management. . For many years Coralie has been an advocate of riding and training without damaging the horse. To this end, she has completed her second book, A Different Arena. This is a novel about a dressage rider with a debilitating disease that prevents her from having sufficient strength to control her horse, and how she overcomes this despite shonky instructors, pushy dealers and nasty competitors.

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