Dis-uniting whilst jumping

Twilight

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I recently got my sister to video me having a jumping lesson. When I watched it back I realised that when we were turning T often intentionally swaps onto the wrong lead behind. This is especially the case when we are doing a tight jump off type turn. Is this normal? he is quite balanced in that from on top I hadn't realised that he was doing it. Being disunited doesn;t seem to affect his jumping as he is consistantly jumping double clears at 2'9" and 3'. He is fairly regularly seen by a physio so I doubt it is his back. Does anyone else find this, any suggestions on why he is doing it. Or ways of trying to reduce it.
 
Could you possibly have two jumps opposite each other on a 20m circle and several poles on the circle so you can jump the jump turn on the circle whilst going over canter poles to your second fence again go over the canter poles to the first jump again. As a pole helps to get the transition in the first place he may find it easier to constantly have this whilst turning for the jump?
 
We can give it a go. I have used jumping on a circle and clock poles in past but never combined them. It does seem to be when we are doing the tighter turns that he dis-units though.
 
I would get him checked again. A few years ago someone asked me to take on a horse for them, and it did the same. I asked them to get it checked and it had a bad problem with its pelvis. The only reason he would have to change behind is because he is uncomfortable. Sorry
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