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Training the Modern Jumper Evaluating Potential • Gymnastic Exercises Over Fences • Maintaining Soundness • Dressage for Improving Performance • Course Building Elmar Pollmann–Schweckhorst In this lively and intelligent new book, internationally renowned jumper rider and trainer Elmar Pollman–Schweckhorst remindes us of the advantages of cross–training, explaining how classical concepts and dressage fundamentals are critical to the development of a willing, flexible, and ultimately successful jumping partner. The author shows the reader dressage training to the creation of a jumper capable of excelling on today's complex courses. Chapters include tips on assessing a jumper's conformation, personality, and technique over fences; diagrams of exercises to perfect a horse's jumping form and his ability to see a distance and adjust his stride; guidelines for riding courses in competition; methods to improve your ability to jump “against the clock”; discussion of the history, progression, and future of fence and course design; and recommendations for keeping the working jumper happy and healthy. Training the Modern Jumper conscientiously addresses issues relevant to all trainers and riders, whether amateur or professional, while at the same time offering a methodology appropriate for developing a winning jumper in the twenty-first century. ELMAR POLLMANN–SCHWECKHORST is a professional instructor and has competed successfully in the United States, Canada, South America, and Europe. He has trained the winners of numerous national and international jumping competitions. He currently lives in Germany, where he manages his family's breeding and training facility. "Thought-provoking but easy to understand. There's a lot more in this book than just training a jumper. Horsemanship is an art. This book is about that art."—American Quarter Horse Journal 160 pp • 7 1/2 x 10 • 98 color photos and diagrams • 1 57076 317 8 Click here for more information on Elmar Pollmann-Schweckhorst.

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