Learning to jump on inexperienced horse

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Ok, thoughts please folkses
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I used to do a reaonable amount of jumping, but it was a loooong time ago. Now my jumping looks like, well, let's just say it's not pretty! Big Cob is very kind and understanding and does his best to catch me
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I'm going to start having lessons again. I know I can borrow Big Cob, which is very kind indeed of Friend, but I was thinking about the Dizzy one. She has jumped a bit, but due to length of her legs, apparently she doesn't really jump until the jumps are at three feet, whereas I'm currently more your three inches kinda gal.

Dizz needs to learn all sorts of things due to age and medical history and breeding and maturity. I'm pretty certain that she has not had the sort of jump schooling that the instructor would be insistant on, so I was thinking we could work together. She needs to learn balance and placing and dealing with small stuff, as do I - so, would it be okay if we learn together? Instructor would get on if she needed to (nice instructor lol).
 
with her medical history

Dizz needs to accept she needs to learn again from 3 inches with you!!! She cant get pushed to big heights too fast!

Therefore this is very good as you can increase your jumping confidence as her body prepares each time for a slgithly bigger height!
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I think it's a great idea!

I had barely jumped at all and had lost confidence over the jumps I had done. Zoom had never even stepped over a pole on the ground. It has worked out really well though since we have learnt together.

Our confidence improves every time we go out together.

Do it!!!!
 
Yes you'll be fine, remember you don't have to jump to have a jumping lesson, you will both benefit from gridwork and using poles that are at ground level for example, you won't go far wrong that way and you'll both learn together, sometimes its not the jumping part thats the problem, its riding inbetween the fences thats counts for a a lot.

You go girl!
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I think its a fab idea, especially as she needs to take it steady with the jumping to start with so as not to hurt herself again anyway, so as previously said she will be ready to slowly move up the heights medically as you gradually get the confidence to jump higher!
go and enjoy!!!!!!!
 
that sounds even better! you will get better working together and dizz monster will get muscle in the right places and better control of her lovely long legs!
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Thankies thankies thankies
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I feel much better now! Will definately be a confidence issue as she has one heck of a pop in her and the thought of being on that, whilst exciting also causes me to think to remember to pack spare underwear and johds...
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shut up woman you'll be fine!
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besides if she's got one hell of a pop on her then thats a good thing.

We might Mrs M flying round Hickers in her extra knickers next year
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whooo hooo!
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I'm going to go against the grain here & say that you might be better off having a couple of lessons on a more experienced horse first?

Obv I don't know your level of experience but IMO it is not always a great idea to be unbalanced on the back of an already unbalanced/inexperienced horse.

Great to lean together (and I am not trying to rain on your parade) but I would want to be confident and together if I was teaching an immature horse.
 
I think its a good idea.

I learnt to jump myself on inexperienced horses - I used to ride the 3/4/5 year olds at my RS and took several of them over/through their first jumping sessions.

I think it can work, provided that you are very positive. My instructor used to insist that refusals/run outs were always the fault of the rider and were a cardinal sin; that coupled with me being a super-confident teenager at the time meant none of them ever seemed to stop. It was years later that I had my first refusal and was horrified!

The only other thing, is that I have developed a very defensive position as a result of years of jumping unbalanced youngsters - I'm really good at slipping the reins and surviving sticky jumps but I find it difficult to really go with the horse and achieve the correct position over bigger fences- although I suspect that could be improved with lessons
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I agree a bit with MF Mrs M, I would have a few goes on big cob first to get your balance and your confidence up and then take the dizzy one in the near future after a few.

Nothing to stop you doing some polework with the dizzy one in the meantime, perhaps get instructor to give you ideas of good exercises to get her working properly over poles/raised poles first -calmly
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Just what I would do.
 
Thankies all
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I'm agreeing that a mix is going to be the way to go
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I jumped my last girl (first person to do so, was sooooo pleased and proud of her - she loved it, had to pull her away from the three foot plus jumps that were up ready for a show! She might have done them, but I wouldn't
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I'll do the ground exercises with the Dizz and practice my sticking knees in and getting ar$e in the right place; and try the actual jumping with Big Cob - he'd probably appreciate me doing it properly
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E - calmly?! Wots that then?
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did think it might not be in her dictionary, could you maybe leave one on the appropriate page in a corner of her field?

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