Advice on going with him over a jump?!

[Hemirjtm]

I jumped Hemir properly for the first time in probably 6 months (ground not being good enough then he had time off work for his back to get better...!) The vet said to leave it 8 weeks before jumping him, giving him enough time to regain the muscle and just to make sure he was balanced correctly after being very stiff in his neck and his hind quarters not being in alignment. It's been nearly 10 weeks since the vet saw him and i decided the ground was good enough and over the past few weeks he'd been feeling really good and i knew that i wanted to jump again, so we did and he seemed to be fine (albeit a little silly over the small jumps!) I felt really confident he was really listening, he felt really balanced, and we worked on circles and trotting poles for about 20 mins then popped a jump up, now i know a lot of people think the jumping should be taken slowly, but I can only really tell if he's ok when the jumps are over 2ft 6.

My problem is that i give too much over the smaller jumps and not enough over hte bigger jumps and often look like i'm getting left behind! I sit up far too early over the jump

My dad took some videos and it's as if i don't really trust him to go over...but i do!

Anyone got any ideas how i can stop myself sitting up too early, and how i can give more over the bigger jumps, as tbh i cna't jump any bigger as my position is pretty awful!!

Here are some pictures from today

getting left behind.....

We got in too close to the jump

Thanks for any advice you can give me

i really want to improve my position, firstly it can't be that comfortable for Hemir, secondly I'd like to jump bigger

xx cookies xx

 

[jumpthemoon]

I think you really need an instructor to give you some lessons - it's very hard to tell what's going wrong from photos and it's much easier for you if someone is there telling you what to do as things are happening.