This book introduces in four chapters and some thirty illustrations the elements of equitation. No art without science and, as concerns life, all roots in the body. In a time of expanding research in body properties, neurology and bio-psychology, the conclusions here presented will come as no surprise. The reader finds in this book close to no explicit references to riding. And yet, it is the result of sitting on a wide variety of horses, riding them in light of in-depth studies of human/equine corporeality. An image evolves of a new, modern equitation, which develops from the body and the history of equitation in industrial and pre-industrial times.
On the way and arriving
