Dressage Unscrambled by Bill Woods - Paperback (2009)
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Bill Woods has been a central player in the American dressage community for more than forty years, as student, teacher, judge, clinician, writer and producer. From these roles he draws a wealth of humorous tales about unanticipated interruptions to otherwise serious dressage performances, all with one purpose: to add levity and balance to the weighty pursuit of the perfect dressage performance. He touches on topics he's taught and judged, insights offered through accounts of actual situations, some hilarious, especially with distance. For example, his observation that men's channel-hopping with the TV remote, interested in what might happen across TV-land, are "not hindered, as women are, by having an attention span." This, he suggests, is a skill men can use to advantage when riding, because they don't get overly bogged down with any one thing, but rather notice and ride "the whole horse the whole time." With references to everyone from Michael Jordan to Mitt Romney, Dilbert to Babe the Blue Ox, Woods will have you rolling on the floor with laughter at his anecdotes and analogies, and you'll come up for air understanding some dressage techniques that may have eluded you through all your intensively serious efforts to date. Dressage Unscrambled will elucidate, illustrate and demystify hoary dressage principles while managing to skewer the sacred cows - both two-legged and four-legged - of the sport of dressage.