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Can anyone recommend any books, cd's, etc for proper jumping? Began riding rather late, at 40, but went from fear of horses(which many men have,) to love of riding, hacking off with friends, etc.. Progressed and actually had a period of riding, jumping twice a day...

Then I was sold a young horse...I think my trainer thought me capable. Anyway, the horse had tripping problems. After a few nasty falls he came over on top of me, tripping upon reception of a jump(French term, please correct me WHENEVER I use the wrong term for I learned to ride here.)

Kept the horse(good papers,) brought him home, wormed, changed ferriers, it's been a few years now hacking out and no more tripping. I would like to start jumping again. It took some lessons but the same old trainer has me jumping practically the same heights, on another horse, and I dominate my fear and do it, but would prefer really starting all over again, as my 8yr old son, poles on the ground, no hands, no stirrups, etc...

I will probably just have to do it myself...Might I add, just when my confidence was "getting there," during a small collective adult lesson, same trainer had the 3 of us jumping a one meter fence with two poles resting at the center of the horizontal pole in an inverted "V." One of the adult's horses paused, jumping late and too vigorously and threw the poor woman quite badly...I finished the lesson but havn't gone back...

I am 54 and would still like to get back to jumping, which has its risks, but this time, take a longer, less "latin" approach...(before it will be too late...)

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Would suggest you change trainer. No offense but he sounds rather incompetent to me...You need to get your basics right + serious work on the flat before doing the kind of jumping described in your post.
If yougoto the FFE website, you can find a list by "departement" of the trainers/instructors/riding schools in your area.
 
Thanks BlackEventer...The trouble is, I really like and admire this man. He's a little younger than myself, maybe he's 50, still competes and runs his club for children and adults, retarded folks, etc...The man lives at the place and has 3 children of his own...

The horse he was loaning me when taking lessons was "on loan" from the National Stud, so he was giving me the best chance possible to get back into it, but the guy doesn't understand that I am really not at ease jumping now and want to GO SLOWLY! I am not a salary employee and the last accident where I broke several ribs,collar bone, and shoulder blade, cost me in work and I couldn't continue here...

My son is in his pony club. I need to go away to a camp for adults for a week or two! Changing clubs, I'd feel like I was letting him down...Plus I wouldn't any longer like putting my horse anywhere but here...
 
Well, good luck then !
Your best bet might be to attend clinics (stages) with a good CSO pro.
Your son's needs and yours are obviously very different and I'm sure your trainer can understand this.He sounds like a nice man but that doesn't necessarily make him a good trainer for oldies like us...We're not an easy bunch to teach !!!
I know how you feel about not wanting to move your horse to another place. Same with me...Although useless for learning but YOs very nice people with genuine love of horses. The good part is that we can bring in our own trainers for lessons.

Don't believe you can learn from books either...Just good for your overall horsey culture but in the end the old saying "practice makes perfect" is the only one that goes for riding horses
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Any pics of your horse ?
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hi,
i don't know what you mean by "reception of a jump"... do you mean take-off?

jumping, on the right horse, with the right instructor, is exhilarating, fun, not worrying at all. however much you might like and admire this guy, he doesn't sound to me as if he teaches what you need at the moment.
you need someone non-technical, in a way, who is happy to build little courses to encourage you and the horse to have fun. the distances between the fences have to be right (loads of people on here can tell you those though!) but other than that it's simple. lots of small fences, either trot or canter around in a nice balanced rhythmic way, let the fence come to you, push your hands forwards as the horse takes off so that you don't pull him in the mouth. it doesn't have to be difficult at all, or at least not until the fences start getting a LOT bigger than you want to do at the moment.
i don't think it's something you can learn from a book. one person who knows a bit and is there at the right time to say just what you need, is worth 1000 books imho.
very best of luck!
sorry, just read your last posting. if there's nowhere else you want to go, then you need to talk to this man and explain before the lesson that you want to jump small fences only, until you feel really happy and confident. if you make yourself very clear, hopefully he'll do as you ask.
otherwise, i'd suggest a course at a big riding centre, designed to get your confidence up, riding lots of nice horses which are good, easy jumpers.
 
Thanks again...Must get around to learning how to post a few photos of my horses...Promise i will try to get on it soon(this leaves me time
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) My horse is here on the farm...Before, aside from the tripping, he was having collic problems at the club/barn(Americans say barn?)
"Reception" would be landing? After jumping...Trying to do toooooooooooo many things at once today, plus sharing the computer with wife...Off to market..Have anice Saturn's Day(she's an astrologer....rr
 
Forgive me...In America as well(but havn't been there for a while.)

Actually, as so many English Words, doesn't the term "retarded" come from the Latin or French...meaning "late" or "slow." Its connotative meaning is politically incorrect but its denotative is quite harmless really..

Wasn't it 'your' Shakespeare that wrote something to the effect of nothing is good or bad that thinking doesn't make so...Hamlet, I believe....

Will avoid the word in the future...rr
 
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