Book excerpt: The right jumping training of your young horse is essential for his future as a confident, contented and successful show jumping and cross country horse. Your well-schooled horse or pony will be your safe, fear-free and healthy partner in all equestrian disciplines. Do you want your horse to be a joy to ride and a trusting partner? Make Your Riding Dreams Come True - Improve Your Horsemanship Skills and Your Horse's Performance - Deepen Your Relationship with Your Horse - Overcome Training Problems, One Small Step at a Time. You Can Do It! Just Be Willing to Make Some Necessary Changes for More Success and Fun with Your Horse. From 25 years experience of working with horses and riders Christopher Conradt sets out in this sound and practical workbook the ideal order of training steps to achieve maximum progress by asking the horse what is required of him at the right time and in the right way. You will instantly relate to the effective, sympathetic approach to training or re-training your horse based on trust and understanding. This comprehensive reference training guide covers every aspect of the horse' s jumping education and will be invaluable for all recreational as well as competition riders and will help riding instructors plan lessons and training programmes for individual horses and riders. In this completely revised and updated version of Vol. 3 of the Avalon Horse Training Series you will discover: ✓ How to use the most effective light/forward seat to help your horse to jump any fence cleanly. ✓ How to measure all distances between fences correctly when jumping horses and ponies. ✓ How to use Loose-Jumping and Cavalletti exercises to prepare your horse for jumping. ✓ How to introduce your horse to jumping - from single fences in trot and canter, gymnastic jumping exercises (grid work) to competing at your first show. ✓ How to start your horse to hack out safely and jump cross country fences confidently. ✓ How to work through a detailed step by step training plan from basic training to your first competition. ✓ How to deal with specific evasions and resistances in your jumping training that undoubtedly occur. How to diagnose the basic training problems correctly and understand why your horse reacts in this way. How to tackle the problem and prevent it from happening again. This natural horse training workbook is easy to read but no less informative. Many practical tips, pictures, suitable jumping and jumping lane exercises, broken down into easy to follow steps, will get you on the right track to make the progress in your hunter jumper training you've been looking for. Don't let another day go by, pick up your copy now to get started!