ColouredFan
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Course you can, do you want it posted or are you going to Wilton this weekend? or know someone going I could give it to?
Brutal, no holes barred CC pls on me & Soap **WWEC SJ Video**
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milz88
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Hi Chloe, I think you are brave for putting a video up and asking for cc, eeek, well done you. Also I admire your determination to improve and always ask advice. I think soap is a lovely horse, very honest and looks brilliant.
My comments would be mainly centred around the canter as everyone else has said, you need more! don't drive into the fence, it can be hard to distinghuish the difference but driving him forward often means tipping forward and pushing with your hips, don't do that, sit up, shoulders back, lots of leg, you need to do the excersies that will keep him balanced in canter and make it alot easier for both of you. It will come with time, enjoy it practising the exercises.
Good luck, keep us updated.
My comments would be mainly centred around the canter as everyone else has said, you need more! don't drive into the fence, it can be hard to distinghuish the difference but driving him forward often means tipping forward and pushing with your hips, don't do that, sit up, shoulders back, lots of leg, you need to do the excersies that will keep him balanced in canter and make it alot easier for both of you. It will come with time, enjoy it practising the exercises.
Good luck, keep us updated.
Chloe_GHE
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Hi Chloe, I think you are brave for putting a video up and asking for cc, eeek, well done you. Also I admire your determination to improve and always ask advice. I think soap is a lovely horse, very honest and looks brilliant.
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Thank you
Well I work on the principle that I'm an experienced rider and should be able to sort out most issues with a little thought but with SJ it's really my weakest phase and the one I have the least time in the saddle and confidence doing so I'm open to all suggestions and criticism. I think you can only improve if you are willing to honestly asses yourself and target your faults, and that's hard to do to yourself so an outside perspective is usualy pretty spot on
It's all a big learning curve after all isn't it?...
Hi Chloe, I think you are brave for putting a video up and asking for cc, eeek, well done you. Also I admire your determination to improve and always ask advice. I think soap is a lovely horse, very honest and looks brilliant.
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Thank you
It's all a big learning curve after all isn't it?...
Noodlejaffa
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I certainly don't think people were actively criticising you. As you said in the beginning, you were looking for advice, and lots of really useful advice has been given - advice that lots of us will take away and give a whirl!!
SJ is my weakest phase when I event, and it's taken me a couple of years to actually relax and enjoy it, rather than want to throw up half way round a course!!
It'll all come, and when it does, it'll be worth all that hard work!
SJ is my weakest phase when I event, and it's taken me a couple of years to actually relax and enjoy it, rather than want to throw up half way round a course!!
It'll all come, and when it does, it'll be worth all that hard work!
Chloe_GHE
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I certainly don't think people were actively criticising you.
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I haven't taken offence I was saying above that that's good that was what I was asking for a fresh perspective and cc from peeps and yeah there is some mega advice in this thread and guess who just copied it all into a word doc and has it in her bag ready for bedtime ready! moi a nerd?
I know how you feel about the 'sj stomach' it's my dream that one day I go to go in my round and all the sjs are now fixed xc fences just in a smaller arena!
I hope you're right that all this practise pays off I can't wait for the day it does!!!!
I certainly don't think people were actively criticising you.
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I haven't taken offence I was saying above that that's good that was what I was asking for a fresh perspective and cc from peeps and yeah there is some mega advice in this thread and guess who just copied it all into a word doc and has it in her bag ready for bedtime ready! moi a nerd?
I know how you feel about the 'sj stomach' it's my dream that one day I go to go in my round and all the sjs are now fixed xc fences just in a smaller arena!
I hope you're right that all this practise pays off I can't wait for the day it does!!!!
ColouredFan
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I know how you feel about the 'sj stomach' it's my dream that one day I go to go in my round and all the sjs are now fixed xc fences just in a smaller arena!
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I like the sound of that Chloe
I know how you feel about the 'sj stomach' it's my dream that one day I go to go in my round and all the sjs are now fixed xc fences just in a smaller arena!
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I like the sound of that Chloe
Chloe_GHE
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right lets do it! we can pool funds, buy a bit of land, I'll hire a mini digger and buils that mental xc fence I drempt the other night and you set up the fixed sj course and we can charge people £25 a pop to try and get round alive!!!
up for it?...
look out BE here comes the next big thing!
up for it?...
look out BE here comes the next big thing!
zero
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Have you ever loose schooled him over heavy wooden poles. This way if he hits them he can't blame you in any way shape or form, he's the only one who can stop himself hitting them.
You look as if you have a combo of the main problems I have with the two horses I ride.
One does not respect jumps that are too small for him. He simply crashed through and doesn't bother to lift his legs. I have to really get him working between my hand and leg before even attempting to jump! Almost bouncing underneath me - really bring his hocks under in the canter. That's what I'm told anyway - almost never geddit right!!!
The other locks on and races over the the jump at breakneck speed. It's a heart in mouth situation!!!! Anyway, I've been told (and I'm really trying) to work her over lots of canter poles. Send her forward over them and completely soften myself in the process but change the distance between the poles so that she has to work out herself if she needs to shorten or to lengthen her stride. At the moment she bops about on a choppy canter but that's not enough to get her over the jump so she panics into a flat out race at the last moment.
Sorry didn't mean it to be a story about me but was struck at your horse looking like one and then the other of my two regular rides!! perhaps you could play about with some gymnastic exercises in the school and see if that helps!!
One does not respect jumps that are too small for him. He simply crashed through and doesn't bother to lift his legs. I have to really get him working between my hand and leg before even attempting to jump! Almost bouncing underneath me - really bring his hocks under in the canter. That's what I'm told anyway - almost never geddit right!!!
The other locks on and races over the the jump at breakneck speed. It's a heart in mouth situation!!!! Anyway, I've been told (and I'm really trying) to work her over lots of canter poles. Send her forward over them and completely soften myself in the process but change the distance between the poles so that she has to work out herself if she needs to shorten or to lengthen her stride. At the moment she bops about on a choppy canter but that's not enough to get her over the jump so she panics into a flat out race at the last moment.
Sorry didn't mean it to be a story about me but was struck at your horse looking like one and then the other of my two regular rides!! perhaps you could play about with some gymnastic exercises in the school and see if that helps!!