Encompassing the areas of dressage, eventing, and show jumping, Olympic candidate Jame Savoie presents a revolutionary approach to riding by which you can train your mind and shape your attitudes to achieve higher levels of skill than ever imagined. Psychocybernetics, the science of positive mind power, will show you how to replace your negative perceptions with creative, constructive, and practical ideas.

That winning feeling: a new approach to riding using psychocybernetics

Sports & Outdoors

Savoie, Jane

Individual Sports

Trafalgar Square Pub

Do you want your horse to dance - to look as beautiful when ridden as when galloping around his field? Continuing on from her first book, "Cross-Train your Horse: Simple Dressage for Every Horse, Every Sport", Jane Savoie delves further into the use of equestrian dressage techniques for all equestrian activities, in this book focusing more on sports that require a higher level of athleticism. After dealing with the basics in Book One, here in "More Cross-Training: Build a Better Performance Horse", she reveals the professionals' secret, the half-halt, and tells the reader, step by step, how to do one and how to know when it has been done correctly. She also explains what 'connection' really means, taking the mystery out of putting a horse 'on the bit'. For the first time, these seemingly difficult concepts are laid out in a straightforward, easy-to-understand way. In subsequent chapters, she presents solid information in a lively fashion, interspersed throughout with anecdotes from successful riders from all different equestrian sports, and her own experience.  Chapters on self-carriage, collected gaits, lateral movements, extended gaits, flying changes, and more, are all presented in the clearest way possible, accompanied by over two hundred photos, diagrams, drawings, and cartoons. Any serious rider, who wants to deepen the human-equine bond, as well as help the horse excel as an athlete, will eagerly welcome this book.

More Cross Training

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Eleven years have passed since Jane Savoie's "That Winning Feeling! Programme Your Mind for Peak Performance" was published. Now in its ninth printing, and translated into several languages, it was the first book to recognize the importance of training the mind and shaping attitude in order to achieve the highest levels of riding skill. Riders in all disciplines, from the English specialties such as dressage and jumping, to Western events like reining and cutting, soon discovered that the techniques Jane described could be used to refine their riding and, as an unexpected bonus, improve the quality of their lives. In response to the many readers who said they were hungry for more information, Jane is presenting "It's Not Just About the Ribbons", a stimulating demonstration of new tools and innovative ideas for self-improvement. Once again, she shares the very concepts she has used with her students - who range from Olympic Games' contenders to more intermediate riders - as well as to help herself deal with challenges. It includes a wealth of ideas to help you deal with your personal demons including: staying motivated; anchoring positive emotions; censoring your speech; controlling your dominant thoughts; reprogramming your 'mental computer' through visualization and self-talk; and changing your whole mental attitude. There is also an important chapter on how to cope with fear, complete with many practical suggestions and exercises - illustrated with photos and drawings - on how to deal with this major, pervasive problem in riding. The book also individually highlights eleven personality traits that hold riders back from fully enjoying their sport (and their lives) - traits such as insecurity, frustration, impatience, tension, doubt, arrogance, moodiness and pessimism. In wonderfully useful sections interspersed throughout the book, the author examines these negative emotions and tells you how to overcome them - turning distraction into concentration, for example - by using strategies that transform an encumbering feeling into a positive characteristic advantage. Full of real-life stories - examples of the success of Jane's methods of dealing with challenges - this book is essential for everyone who is passionate about horses, but may be struggling, at some level or other, with negative emotions and frustration from slow development of riding skills. All readers will find that they can make changes more easily and even more playfully, while better enjoying every moment spent with their horses.

Its Not Just the Ribbons

Trafalgar

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That Winning Feeling!: A New Approach to Riding Using Psychocybernetics

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

A sports psychology audiotape telling how psychocybernetics can be used to reach new goals in one's riding

That Winning Feeling! Chose Your Future

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

An audiotape presenting instruction on relaxation exercises & imaging for the rider. Designed to lead to better concentration & performance

That Winning Feeling!: Tape 2

Literature & Fiction

1992 U.S. Olympic dressage squad member Jane Savoie presents a revolutionary approach to riding by which you can train your mind and shape your attitudes to achieve higher levels of skill than ever imagined.

That Winning Feeling!: Program Your Mind for Peak Performance

Trafalgar Square Books

Jane Savoie returns to share all the concepts and techniques she's learned about mental training since the publication of her best-selling That Winning Feeling!

It's Not Just About the Ribbons: It's About Enriching Riding and Life with Innovative Tools and Winning Strategies

Swift, Sally

Jane Savoie's fresh and innovative approach to teaching the often misunderstood half halt aid will help all riders, many of whom have struggled with the concept for years.

The Half Halt-Demystified! 1: Learning the Half Halt

In Putting Your Horse on the Bit, Savoie goes further and discusses when to use the half halt and how a rider can superimpose it over the aids for other movements in order to keep the horse on the bit.

The Half Halt-Demystified! 2: Putting Your Horse on the Bit

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