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How to Look Cool Whilst Learning Polo: A Very Modern Approach to a Traditional Game

How to Look Cool Whilst Learning Polo: A Very Modern Approach to a Traditional Game


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How To Look Cool Whilst Learning Polo is designed to take the complete novice, (and the more advanced player wanting to brush up their skills) through all the stages that will equip them with the necessary skills to excel at the game of polo. A serious and sophisticated definitive training manual that every aspiring polo player should read, which speaks the language of the beginner at every stage of the game. Excellent and explanatory step-by-step photographs and diagrams throughout, it also includes a selection of highly amusing concept cartoons from the talented Dianne Breeze. It makes a unique addition to the coffee table of those who just aspire to be 10 goal spectactors instead! AUTHOR: Steve Thompson is a highly respected international polo coach and trainer with more than 25 years of tried and tested teaching methods which have proven to be extremely successful to students. He was the founder of the Dubai Polo Academy which is now recognised worldwide as a centre of excellence for expert polo tuition. SELLING POINTS: . The definitive guide to learning polo and looking 'awesome' whilst one's at it! . Highly entertaining and immensely informative . Strips away the intimidation of polo and replaces it with light-hearted fun, and all in a factual, technical approach . Designed to take the complete beginner through all the stages necessary to become an effective team player . Written by Steve Thompson, veteran polo instructor and professional player . Perfect gift for every polo player

Table of Contents:
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Difference Between Kids And Grown-Ups
Physics!

PART I: RIDING GUIDELINES/RIDING LIKE A PRO
The Polo Pony
Learning How to Ride
Balance
Exercise 1: The Pyramid
Stirrups
Accommodating Motion
Steering
Exercise 2: Turning in the Pelvis
Basic Polo Riding
Walk
Trot
Exercise 3: Power Trotting
Canter
Exercise 4: Trot to Canter Transitions
Transitions
Advanced Polo Riding
The Half Seat
Exercise 5: The Half Seat
Exercise 6: Accelerate / Decelerate
Efficient Turning
Exercise 7: Circles within Circles
Changing Direction
Exercise 8: Changing Direction
Versatility
Exercise 9: Sink left / Sink Right
The Tube
Exercise 10: Chin on Chest

PART II: HITTING SUCCESSFULLY/WINNING AT SWINGING
Mallet Essentials
The Grip
Exercise 11: Balancing the Mallet
The Pendulum
The Plane
The Shots Intention
The Smiley Technique & Grid
Exercise 12: The Smiley Technique
The Smiley Grid
Exercise 13: The Smiley Grid
The Nearside in Isolation
The Hitting Process
The Checklist
Perception and Height Deficits
Making Contact
Exercise 14: Working Backwards
Hitting Discipline
Accuracy On Distance
Exercise 15: The Clock
Power Hitting, Penalties and Pre-Swings
Exercise 16: The Pre-Swing
Pitch-Side Training

PART III: APPLICATION/SCORING ON AND OFF THE FIELD
Stick and Balling and Hitting Diagnostics
Exercise 17: Stick and Ball
Playing
Riding Off
Hooking

Problem Solving
Stretching
And Finally...
Acknowledgements


About the Author :
Steve Thompson passion for horses began before polo, in the eventing world and many of his teaching theories stem from that. Horses and polo are his vocation and his career began training polo ponies. The author is now a veteran polo instructor and professional player with over twenty years of teaching experience worldwide.

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This certainly was easy to read and absorb how polo is played. The book was clearly laid out with high quality images and chapters. With checklists, diagrams and hilarious cartoon anecdotes showing from 'how to loft your ball' to 'scoring on and off the field', this book is a breath of fresh air in its instructional form...

This is a great book for all equestrian enthusiasts which would also make a great gift too. If you gifted this book to a young and bold rider, I think it would definitely inspire them to pick up a mallet, buckle up their Argentine belt and head off to the polo field looking incredibly cool!


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781846892431
  • Publisher: Quiller Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Quiller Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 300 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 228 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1846892430
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N


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