Quartz
Well-Known Member
My horse is known for being very strong and hot head when jumping. I have just decided to give up taking him into group lessons as have just had such a struggle with him over the last two years. So I now have a lovely girl (higher level than me) ride him during her jumping lessons. I rode a school pony for the first time in 2 years for my jump lesson a couple of weeks ago and had a blast, I can honestly say I enjoyed myself for the first time in years!
So we decided for group lessons, ride a school pony when jumping. Then have private jumping lessons with him. It was booked for last week but I was quite ill with a virus and all over the weekend. So felt better yesterday and decided to go ahead with my lesson today. Well that was a mistake!! I fell off on the first warm up jump taking the poles and wings with me. Then had two ok warm up jumps. The 4th one was a disaster and I don't even know what happened, I jumped but then ended up hanging off and he took off and then I hit the ground hard. Stayed on the floor for a while as my head was spinning and broke my hat. Ripped my nail off (gutted!) Anyway, it wasn't his fault he hadn't actually done anything wrong for me to loose my balance, he was calm. I just didn't seem to have the strength to hold my body propery and with him you have to be on the ball. So my own stupid fault really, but am sooooo disapointed and just worried again now.
Any words of wisdom to help me feel better would be great, and advice for next time.
So we decided for group lessons, ride a school pony when jumping. Then have private jumping lessons with him. It was booked for last week but I was quite ill with a virus and all over the weekend. So felt better yesterday and decided to go ahead with my lesson today. Well that was a mistake!! I fell off on the first warm up jump taking the poles and wings with me. Then had two ok warm up jumps. The 4th one was a disaster and I don't even know what happened, I jumped but then ended up hanging off and he took off and then I hit the ground hard. Stayed on the floor for a while as my head was spinning and broke my hat. Ripped my nail off (gutted!) Anyway, it wasn't his fault he hadn't actually done anything wrong for me to loose my balance, he was calm. I just didn't seem to have the strength to hold my body propery and with him you have to be on the ball. So my own stupid fault really, but am sooooo disapointed and just worried again now.
Any words of wisdom to help me feel better would be great, and advice for next time.