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ok so i went to jump my horse and yet again she was rushing so i thorough this is it im fed up so but the jumps down to tiny x poles [2 jumps] and would only let her jump over it if she was trotting and then i added the wall [2.6ft] and she was only allowed over if she was trotting and once we had done that a few times i would let her canter............. only if it was a steady canter if not she would have to do a circal until she slowed down and i think i was more knackered than she was at the end
also a few times she was flicking her head up and i lost all control she had a martingale [running] but still seem to get away with mee :S just the flys? or her trying to rush agauin - when she did this i circaled until i had control again :)
am i on the right tracks am i doing the right things? or not?

thanks alot :)
 
Much better. One thing I will say is to remember not to overdo it - jump each fence maybe 4 times max. in each direction, when she's done it nicely once, leave it and go home on a good note.
 
dont ride to it like their is a fence coming, most people with horses that rush tense up before the fence, ride the horse just like your trotting down the long side, take a big sighn and when she jumps dont throw yourself into a jumping possition as this tends to make them speed up, just take a nice light seat over the fence.
 
My horse used to rush and its all about getting the right canter and getting them listening to you through transitions and over poles first! an exercise i did was having a distance say 3 or 4 strides between each fence, try to stop in the middle of the two fences and stop after you have jumped the fences! another one is having trotting poles into the fences! im only repeating what my instructor said to me to try a couple of weeks back and it has already made a difference with one of my horses so highly reccomend! otherwise it sounds like your on the right track- keep going!! :)
 
I'll go with an open mind here.
Yes, on the right track.

I'd be inclined to just set 6 canter poles out, do them until she does them nicely [you you just sit there and learn to let herself sort it out, as that's the poles are there for. She'll have nothing to fight or pull aginst, just the poles there for her to sort her pace out and start thinking of her feet].
Then build up the second canter pole into a small cross, and do the same. Treat them as canter poles exactly the same. Don't fight with her mouth, sit there quietly with just enough leg and contact on to keep her forwards, and again, let the poles make her sort herself out.
Then build the 4th canter pole into a second small cross, and do the same with it now as a double theoritically. Ride exactly the same. Leave her to it, sit there quietly.
Then build the 6th canter pole into a third small cross and do the same again. Leave her to it, sit there quietly, make the poles and her do the hard work.

Keep doing variations of this, change the jumps round a bit if you want, as long as she's doing it quietly.

Then put them up into bounces. Put the 2nd and 3rd poles to start as two jumps making it a bounce, so she has the first canter pole as a guidance for the stride in.
Then add the 4th pole into a jump, so you then have a bounce of 3 jumps.
Then once she's mastered each one quietly, you can add a 5th/6th or however many additions to it.

It's quite fun to do too :) Been doing the same for a pony here, who was a mach 9 speed machine jumping [Ex JA] and had to do everything tight and fast. Two weeks on, after doing this constantly and boring her witless having to be contained, off her hocks and steady jumping, she's now the most easy pony to jump and anyone is jumping her -all calmly and sedately with not any pulling or turbo-ing in sight.

But again.
Only [more] advice ;)
 
2 things I did with my lad when we first really started jumping that helped:

- Using my voice. Teaching 'woaahhh' or 'steadddyyy' means you don't have to rely on just your hands. After a jump, he'd promptly p*ss off at high speed, so i'd concentrate on landing, sitting up and saying 'woah' which brought his attention back to me as he was listening not just with his body, but actually listening with his ears too :p
Plus, you can teach that on the flat from walk to halt, trying to use as little rein as possible, or even in-hand :)

- A little exercise I used a few times as it was quick to set up and I'm quite lazy when it comes to setting jumps up, so I never bother jumping outside of lessons normally. Just one jump on the centre line, height is irrelevant (preferably small so it's less likely to get knocked!) and come at it in trot, see how long it takes to come to a complete halt afterwards. Then aim to shorten that distance. Then aim to be able to do this in canter and reduce the distance again, even with some transitions BEFORE the jump.
Still, don't aim to do all of that in one session, a bit at a time! But it gets the horse to focus on you and not just think jumping means one set pace!
 
There's a small margin of a difference for each horse [ie, a little pony will need slightly shorter distances than a 16hher] but for each canter pole you generally usually stride out *about* 3 human strides between each pole[which ends up about 9-pigeon/toe to heel steps if that makes sense?].
 
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