sanjo
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Always the first jump. He goes clear after that so I know it must be me. What am I doing wrong?
How to stop knocking the first jump in an SJ round?!
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Mule
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Nerves/ nervous anticipation, possibly and because of it you aren't riding positively enough to the first fence. When i started eventing the beast, I had the same problem (albeit he couldn't knock a xc jump so he used to nap/ run backwards from it) 
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LEC
Opinions are like bum holes, everyone has one.
You need to ride your canter more positively - often a common fault. Try cantering immediately as you go into the ring. If the canter feels a bit nice and pretty, take it up a notch and that’s your sjing canter.
TheMule
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What is your warm up routine? What do you do when you go in the ring? Have you tried...
Jumping a max height vertical then straight in (literally- jump and try to keep moving into the ring and go as soon as bell goes)
Jumping a max height square oxer then as above
Before bell goes get a really punchy canter- do a few walk-canter-walk transitions or extend and back in the canter
Jumping a max height vertical then straight in (literally- jump and try to keep moving into the ring and go as soon as bell goes)
Jumping a max height square oxer then as above
Before bell goes get a really punchy canter- do a few walk-canter-walk transitions or extend and back in the canter
ycbm
Einstein would be proud of my Insanity...
Pretend it's the second one. Really, tell yourself you've already refused the first fence and then jumped it and this is the second one.
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MidChristmasCrisis
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Just like everyone above...I can hear my trainer when I was much younger shouting at me “ ride it like it’s the last fence!”...he may have sworn a bit too!