Dressage Unscrambled by Bill Woods

Dressage Unscrambled by Bill Woods

Bill Woods has put together dozens of stories and anecdotes that elucidate and illustrate dressage principles while managing to skewer the sacred bovines, both two and four legged of our sport in Dressage Unscrambled.

A dressage book that references Michael Jordan, ocean liners, magnetic bottles, juke boxes, cannibalism, crop circles, Babe the Blue Ox, Mitt Romney, Dilbert, Barbra Streisand's brother, green Jello, and a further cast of thousands, it's Dressage Unscrambled!

Read his slightly off center takes on perennially burdensome topics like attention, self carriage, and connection. Mix in the hits and near misses of insight that a lifetime of teaching brings. Add in 40 years of weirdness gleaned from scribes, riders, teachers, and unindicted dressage co-conspirators, and you get a book that will bring a pile of smiles, a bucket of chuckles, an occasional spasmodic rotflol episode, and more than a few "I never thought of that!", "I'll have to go try that!" moments.

About the Author:

Bill's dressage education began at the American Dressage Institute and was nurtured by the Vi Hopkins National Instructors Seminars. He has ridden literally thousands of horses and taught that many more riders at all levels over the past nearly-forty years. For two decades Bill was fortunate to be mentored by Swedish Olympian Major Anders Lindgren.

A USEF dressage judge since 1983, he was also the first American designated by the USDF to conduct official Regional Instructors' Workshops. As chair of the Instructor/Trainer Council, he pushed to fruition the USDF's program for instructor certification and the USDF's program of annual National Symposiums.

Size: 6 X 9 , Paperback