getting to grips jumping a new horse

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im hoping it isnt just me:o


my last horse i was confident with,when I started out jumping him it took a while to get it together... i hadnt jumped for about 8 years and I was really nervous, i got left behind all the time and it wasnt pretty. We had come through some major blips with nasty stops and spins as well but after a lot of hard work I was able to jump a smooth SJ round at 2ft9 and was out competing successfully XC ad JX.

He was sold in Feb and I had a nasty fall from my new horse, jumping, in April. That set me back, as i was off for a while and I sold this horse as he wasnt right for me.

I now have Charlie, who is super and I have had him for about 6 weeks. We are having lots of lessons and I have just started to jump again at home this week. (Whereas up until now Ive only jumped him in lessons.) But I seem to have gone back to square one. :o Yes a lot of my confidence has gone... but even over little fences that i KNOW there will be no issue with, I cant see the stride with him, I get left behind, Im grabbing his mane, collapsing on landing...:o It feels like it did when I first started jumping my last horse and it took me 2 years to get to the stage. Am feeling like a bit of a numpty at the moment and yearning for the day to come again where I feel 'at one' with my horse going over a fence instead of hoping and trusting him to get it right,lol
 
I was similar to yourself, i have jumped my old horse (my daughters now riding him) over 1m courses no probs i had him since 6months old trust everything was in place, he was by no means perfect but we just got on, however when ibought new horse and shes a lot bigger so jumps shudnt look as big lol, im terified, i am now jumping 80 to 90 cm and im a bag of nerves, however i went to a small local jumping night and decided to just go for it, we did intermediate and my nerves went, hubby then put a 1m jump up and we just did it, now i dnt feel ready to do course like that but its a start, think its just getting to know and trust the new horse and lots of practice.

good luck
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I completely understand where you are coming from!

Since Chanelle has been injured i went from jumping anything including 1m bsja tracks but i now panic about a xpole barely off the ground! Last night i did my first ever gate (about 90cm) since riding again but it took alot!

Stick at it, you'll get there soon enough :)
 
Its not just you :)
Kellys out of action and will be building her work up really slowly now hence the reason I haven't jumped since last summer...
I've started to jump my YO's ID mare - and I was so nervous on my first lesson!
She spots the jumps and she goes hell for leather, jumps anything and everything :) even though I know she will jump it and clear it with ease I'm still a bit hesitant and its forever in my mind "will she? won't she?" because I was so used to Kelly often refusing (she was only learning).
I've been told that confidence will come with time so I guess we can just keep going for it and the more good jumps we have, the more confidence we'll get! :)
good luck!!
 
Absolutely not on your own. Building the relationship and confidence takes time and even the length of that is going to vary. I'd happily tackle fences with my boy I'd never dream of on anything else, even horses I knew were jumpers through and through. You'll get there. It's a relationship. You've done it before and you'll do it again.
 
Be a little nicer to yourself!! its not the same with a new horse so just take your time and praise yourself for doing the small things well. Don't let that negative voice in your head demolish you - next time you start thinking like that - change it to - would I say that to someone else? no you wouldn't but its in our nature to be overly critical.

So, you are doing ALL THE RIGHT THINGS!! you are having lessons, you are taking your time. So what if you make a mistake from time to time, we all do.

I had to rebuild my confidence from happily competing over PN courses to losing my bottle completely (blooming horse). I spent a long time on a saint (in my eyes as he wouldn't stop regardless of my cock up's) and that included a couple of lessons having to jump everything from a walk. So carry on as you are doing, stick a neck rein if you want to grab something, keep it low and simple and it will come back. I ended up competing at a higher level than before but there was a horrible summer when 18" seemed too big...
 
thank you eveyrone,glad it isnt just me. im in awe of those who can get on lots of different horses - for me it takes me all my time to learn one horse and get it right.

luci07, thats good to know its not just me and that you went from PN to losing your bottle and getting back again. Its so frustrating, but you're right, things are progressing nicely so i cant complain.
 
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