Can I have your comments on this jumping pic please?
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lucy1984
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picture?
samstar
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you can see pic if you click on horsie jumping
KatB
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Not bad, just relax and fold from your hips. You look completely rigid!! ETA your horse actually has a very nice technique!
lucy1984
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ohh I see how it works lol
You look like your about to fly off into space! Should your chest be closer down to the horse?
You look like your about to fly off into space! Should your chest be closer down to the horse?
wench
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that was one of his better days when we actually got round clear! (well i eliminated us by jumping a smaller jump on the course on purpose)
Equus Leather
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Instead of pushing your arse back and folding from the hips, you're standing up in your stirrups.
ForeverBroke_
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You dont look bad at all IMO
Your legs in particular to me look fine
Agree with KatB, fold from your hips and chillax ! Might help to just fold for a bit rather than standing up in your stirrups slightly etc and work on it from there upwards
Cliqmo
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Nice horse!
I would agree with the posts above that you need to be closer to the saddle, which will enable you to fold forward from the hip and give a bit more with your reins if the fence calls for it- you are not disrupting the horse in this pic but as fences become more technical you may need to soften your style and give him more to play with.
CaleruxShearer
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Not bad, just relax and fold from your hips. You look completely rigid!! ETA your horse actually has a very nice technique!
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Ditto. Relax, it's sooo much more fun when you relax
Occasionaly though I get a little carried away xc schooling and pretend I'm at Badders and have to be reminded I am in no where near the same league as Mary King and co.!
Ponio has a lovely pop.
Not bad, just relax and fold from your hips. You look completely rigid!! ETA your horse actually has a very nice technique!
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Ditto. Relax, it's sooo much more fun when you relax
Ponio has a lovely pop.
Brandysnap
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Hi Wench (another great name!)
If i had my way (which i often don't!), i'd like you to shorten your stirrups 3 or 4 holes.
And - you look like you're expecting something horrid, and backing off, while your horse is going for it! But Lucinda Green always advised that 'behind the movement is safest' with regard to fences, but that we must always attack them.
Either way, friend, just trust your horse a little more, you look like you're just backing off a bit, while he/she is up for it!
You look good (and if you want to tell us a little more about your background, it's interesting, + we all learn. No probs if not x)
I don't see anything wrong with your leg position, on pic here (wearing my boring old AI hat!), shorten stirrups, to go with the movement, relax and enjoy is best advice from me. But above all, shortening stirrups for jumping is paramount. All bests, BS x
If i had my way (which i often don't!), i'd like you to shorten your stirrups 3 or 4 holes.
And - you look like you're expecting something horrid, and backing off, while your horse is going for it! But Lucinda Green always advised that 'behind the movement is safest' with regard to fences, but that we must always attack them.
Either way, friend, just trust your horse a little more, you look like you're just backing off a bit, while he/she is up for it!
You look good (and if you want to tell us a little more about your background, it's interesting, + we all learn. No probs if not x)
I don't see anything wrong with your leg position, on pic here (wearing my boring old AI hat!), shorten stirrups, to go with the movement, relax and enjoy is best advice from me. But above all, shortening stirrups for jumping is paramount. All bests, BS x
bugaboo
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You need to open you knee in the saddle and allow your lower leg to wrap around the horse,toes forward you look like your gripping so hard from the knee your toes are turning out.
Relax with the hands and allow the elbow to follow the horses jump through the neck.
Fold through your back get ya ass out your standing up in the saddle my best friend jumps like that
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You need your lady lumps to be further down intowards the horses neck.
Its looks like your scared to me [sorry] and look very stiff and as if your on the defensive when you should be relaxed and enjoying it.
I always used to teach my girls to ride with the knee out and away from the saddle it improves and secures your lower leg so much better,and gives you a stronger natural leg aid.
Your horse is lush love it.
Relax with the hands and allow the elbow to follow the horses jump through the neck.
Fold through your back get ya ass out your standing up in the saddle my best friend jumps like that
You need your lady lumps to be further down intowards the horses neck.
Its looks like your scared to me [sorry] and look very stiff and as if your on the defensive when you should be relaxed and enjoying it.
I always used to teach my girls to ride with the knee out and away from the saddle it improves and secures your lower leg so much better,and gives you a stronger natural leg aid.
Your horse is lush love it.
yeeharider
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agree with shortening your stirups 2-3 holes and get your toes in they are pointing sideways bringing toes in heels down will give you a more secure lower leg position
tasel
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Not sure whether you are a bit behind the movement or whether you just stood up a bit too much vertically (we'd need video to know that)?
Try getting your bum a bit closer to the back of the saddle instead and lower your upper body. You have to kinda follow the horse's movement, I guess... 'cos in the picture, your horse is going over the obstacle - basically a more horizontal movement - whilst you are going up vertically instead.
The horse's movement over a jump is sth. like vertical movement (up) - horizontal movement - vertical movement (down). When you jump, you first go up, but you must then follow your horse's neck into the horizontal movement and then leverage yourself a bit to the back when the horse lands.
OH is non-horsey and is a Theoretocal Physicist (Albert Einstein's stuff) - just showed him the pic and explained this to him. He says it's something to do with the centre of gravity - if the centre of gravity is at the ideal point during the jump (centre of the horse), you make it easier for the horse - as the horse needs less energy to get over the jump...
Try getting your bum a bit closer to the back of the saddle instead and lower your upper body. You have to kinda follow the horse's movement, I guess... 'cos in the picture, your horse is going over the obstacle - basically a more horizontal movement - whilst you are going up vertically instead.
The horse's movement over a jump is sth. like vertical movement (up) - horizontal movement - vertical movement (down). When you jump, you first go up, but you must then follow your horse's neck into the horizontal movement and then leverage yourself a bit to the back when the horse lands.
OH is non-horsey and is a Theoretocal Physicist (Albert Einstein's stuff) - just showed him the pic and explained this to him. He says it's something to do with the centre of gravity - if the centre of gravity is at the ideal point during the jump (centre of the horse), you make it easier for the horse - as the horse needs less energy to get over the jump...
wench
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Thanks for your comments! Unfortunatly I can shorten my stirrups any more, my knees would be over the saddle flaps (and its a slightly forward cut saddle) and I generally look like I am riding at the 330 at Haydock! Maybe in this pic I either didnt have shorter stirrups, or coz I am standing up and have long legs creates a wrong pic.
Will try letting the reins go a little! They tend to be pretty short otherwise naughty horse tends to go the way he wants, not the way he should!
Will try letting the reins go a little! They tend to be pretty short otherwise naughty horse tends to go the way he wants, not the way he should!
Cliqmo
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Just got the bill through- £419!! Vet had included original diagnosis in the costs she gave over the phone, but I have already paid for them
Very happy and revoke all previous ranty type comments about vets
Brandysnap
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Hi again Wench,
I'd certainly shorten your stirrups, which i'm sure your saddle would cope with, if you had more fold in your position. (My old 2nd hand GP coped with BE + BSJA with me)
I certainly don't think that lengthening your reins would solve anything, and would be the last thing to help, in my humble opinion. If i was teaching you, i'd get you to ride in forward seat, short stirrups, short reins, over grids, give you more feel for the horse's movement. I'd also get you to ride and jump many other horses (yours is gorgeous, + looks very genuine BTW)
I'd also like to make a very quiet, polite, nice comment about the fact that there are many excellent trainers out there, and while advice on the forum is free, well maybe we all need to have a thought that some trainers give advice on this forum, at no charge.
So, are you going to shorten those stirrups tomorrow, trust that lovely horse of yours + fold properly? And for god's sake, don't lengthen your reins!
That's £20, please!
BS x
I'd certainly shorten your stirrups, which i'm sure your saddle would cope with, if you had more fold in your position. (My old 2nd hand GP coped with BE + BSJA with me)
I certainly don't think that lengthening your reins would solve anything, and would be the last thing to help, in my humble opinion. If i was teaching you, i'd get you to ride in forward seat, short stirrups, short reins, over grids, give you more feel for the horse's movement. I'd also get you to ride and jump many other horses (yours is gorgeous, + looks very genuine BTW)
I'd also like to make a very quiet, polite, nice comment about the fact that there are many excellent trainers out there, and while advice on the forum is free, well maybe we all need to have a thought that some trainers give advice on this forum, at no charge.
So, are you going to shorten those stirrups tomorrow, trust that lovely horse of yours + fold properly? And for god's sake, don't lengthen your reins!
That's £20, please!