daydreamer
Well-Known Member
I am trying to improve my jumping and it occurred to me that when I jump everything seems to pass in a flash. I think I need to try and make more things subconscious/habit so I free up some brain space. So I thought it would be interesting to hear what people have made habit/subconscious and what they actually think about when jumping.
For me...
Subconscious: have the horse and I got all limbs attached, are generally healthy and capable, folding over the jump then sitting up again, hands forwards, looking for a straight departure line, jump the middle of the fence, try and approach in a straight line
Conscious: eyes up! try and remember to look for the next fence (tend to be slow to do this or I can look but not organise and look at the same time), check lead leg and change if wrong (very slow doing this, for some reason it seems to take lots of brain space)
No room/time to think about: what type of fence it is and if I should ride it differently to others, how many strides in-between fences, canter rhythm, seeing a stride (although I can sometimes tell if we are going to be wrong I can't/don't tend to do anything about it).
I would be really interested to hear other people's thoughts/ideas
For me...
Subconscious: have the horse and I got all limbs attached, are generally healthy and capable, folding over the jump then sitting up again, hands forwards, looking for a straight departure line, jump the middle of the fence, try and approach in a straight line
Conscious: eyes up! try and remember to look for the next fence (tend to be slow to do this or I can look but not organise and look at the same time), check lead leg and change if wrong (very slow doing this, for some reason it seems to take lots of brain space)
No room/time to think about: what type of fence it is and if I should ride it differently to others, how many strides in-between fences, canter rhythm, seeing a stride (although I can sometimes tell if we are going to be wrong I can't/don't tend to do anything about it).
I would be really interested to hear other people's thoughts/ideas