The Horse Agility Handbook by Vanessa Bee

The Horse Agility Handbook by Vanessa Bee

Over the past few decades, an evolution in how we go about training horses has encouraged horse owners to spend more time handling their horse on the ground in order to achieve good behaviour, mutual trust, and a healthy partnership -- before they ever think about getting in the saddle. This has created a generation of horsemen and women perfectly poised to pursue the competitive and social benefits of the sport of Horse Agility.

Horse trainer Vanessa Bee, founder of the International Horse Agility Club, says that we need to change the way we think about horses and the sports and activities we so often pursue with them. She sees no reason the horse cannot enjoy your time together so much, he will choose to 'play' with you -- over, under, and through obstacles, without a lead rope, even when loose in a large, grassy pasture. Hard to believe? Try it for yourself!

The Horse Agility Handbook has all you need to get started in the sport, including lessons in handling and body language, directions for obstacle and course construction, and information for managing competitions and 'play days'.

• The complete start-up guide to training horses in horse agility
• Written by horsewoman Vanessa Bee - Founder of the International Horse Agility Club and 3-Minute Horsemanship
• Explains a step-by-step process: first developing a relationship with one's horse and then continue together to build confidence and co-operation
• Covers horse and handler basics, obstacle construction and organising and judging competitions
• Horse agility is an activity and a sport which provides a place for those people and horses who may not wish to, or be able to, work under saddle

International Horse Agility Club founder Vanessa Bee offers the advice you need to get started in the sport of horse agility, including proper handling, body language, obstacle and course construction, and organising events
Using a basis of natural horsemanship techniques, . . . Vanessa Bee covers all aspects of the sport, including instructions for construction of obstacles as well as the proper procedure for introducing this type of play to your horse. . . . This book introduces you to a fun, new way to bond with your horse.
A qualified teacher with a degree in education, (Vanessa Bee) explains in 15 chapters the progression from attitude and suitability through working the horse at liberty to the construction of safe obstacles and the organisation of playdays and competitions.

Vanessa Bee is the founder of the International Horse Agility Club (thehorseagilityclub.com). With a training facility in England and her own method known as Positive Horsemanship, she specializes in building relationships between the horse and the handler from the ground up.

Vanessa has been around horses most of her life, working in racing stables throughout her teens, then driving competitively into her early twenties when she was given an unridable racehorse as a wedding present. Very soon Vanessa realized that there had to be a better way than the bigger stick, bigger bit method of riding commonly offered, and in the late nineties Vanessa began to read, study, and work with some of the greatest horsemen of the age. She soon discovered that there are as many ways of teaching horsemanship as there are horses and handlers in the world.

As a qualified teacher with a degree in education, Vanessa has used her skills to develop a series of courses that teach people of all abilities and experience levels to achieve a positive relationship with their horse. By creating the International Horse Agility Club, she has provided a social and competitive outlet for those relationships to grow.

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ISBN 13	9781570764882
ISBN 10	1570764883
Title	The Horse Agility Handbook
Author	Vanessa Bee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Trafalgar Square
Year published	2015-11-09
Number of pages	192
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