Elsiecat
Well-Known Member
Ive had her now 4 weeks (and a day
) and on Thursday I decided it was time to take the plunge and have a jump on her. At first there was NO getting her over the jump, she'd run straight past either side. After a bit of coaxing I got a tiny jump off her.
I then put it onto a still extremely small jump, probably just up to my thigh (shes 16.2) and she clipped it and knocked it over. So we tried again and she just kept on doing it.
She wasn't naughty (aside from the time we landed from a nice little jump and she proceeded to gallop up the field with my clinging on for dear life.)
I saw her jumped when we viewed her and she popped a good sized jump easy.
Obviously its been a month, but its not that long, is it?
Yesterday I decided to include a bit of jumping in her lunging time, the first few times she point blank refused, so I put the pole near enough on the floor and coaxed her over with the help of polos. After that she jumped a small jump on the lunge a few times. Although I had to let the lunge line go and go and catch her twice and she had refused and I'd gone over to her and as I had she decided to re-try the jump (somehow resulting in the lunge line nearly wrapping round the jump posts).
Can someone give me some tips for getting her back into it?
Or is it literally practice between us? Starting tiny and going up from that?
(I am by no means a pro jumper, as you can all probably tell
)

I then put it onto a still extremely small jump, probably just up to my thigh (shes 16.2) and she clipped it and knocked it over. So we tried again and she just kept on doing it.
She wasn't naughty (aside from the time we landed from a nice little jump and she proceeded to gallop up the field with my clinging on for dear life.)
I saw her jumped when we viewed her and she popped a good sized jump easy.
Obviously its been a month, but its not that long, is it?
Yesterday I decided to include a bit of jumping in her lunging time, the first few times she point blank refused, so I put the pole near enough on the floor and coaxed her over with the help of polos. After that she jumped a small jump on the lunge a few times. Although I had to let the lunge line go and go and catch her twice and she had refused and I'd gone over to her and as I had she decided to re-try the jump (somehow resulting in the lunge line nearly wrapping round the jump posts).
Can someone give me some tips for getting her back into it?
Or is it literally practice between us? Starting tiny and going up from that?
(I am by no means a pro jumper, as you can all probably tell
