Forgetting the course

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Afternoon everyone,

I went out to a local indoor eventer trial yesterday and stupidly forgot the course which cost me the win :( I had to do a big sweeping circle instead of the nifty turn I had meticulously planned.

This has happened to me so many times this year when I am against the clock, at least 1 in 3 rounds.

I'm just interested if anyone else has this issue and if so what did they do to overcome it? I feel the longer it happens the more anxious I get and I become even more likely to forget where I'm going!
 
Gawd, I used to be awful for forgetting where I was going, especially in arena eventing where there are twenty million jumps :D

I still fluff it sometimes, but generally I have just got better the more I did it.

The more you worry about it, the more likely you will be to forget where you are going, so don't!

I find closing my eyes and visualising where I am going, and the jumps, really helps. Also I always try to watch a couple of people go round, this seems to help me :)
 
yep, the mind going blank during a test......wonderful.

The only cure I have found is to just keep on with it, keep going until the competitions become routine. There is no magic cure , my sister missed the last jumping fence out at grass roots Badmington, was eliminated before the cross country. It does happen and its terrible at the time and you kick yourself but you now have to think about the next competition and forget that one, its done and dusted, take the positives from it and move on. :)
 
Can't do this for dressage but when jumping XC, I would build a picture in my mind and at each fence add on another fence to my picture. Not sure if you would have time for that in a SJ or indoor eventing but it did work when I was eventing...and I never got lost again!
 
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