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For god's sake my computer just deleted the WHOLE report as I was clicking "post" gah.

Ok well a 31 dressage, not overly deserving - nice test but he didn't like the downhill slope and unfortunately both our medium trots were on this slope! however near the top after dressage which is always nice
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Onto SJ - lucy Thompson was on hand to give me some advice (thank you so much L) and she helped with my PMA. Went into the ring feeling positive. I rode well and didn't hook but I went a bit too collected into number 3 which was a long 2 strided double. Z thought I was going to hook for a 3rd (can't blame him with the way Ive been riding recently) and then sort of went to take off, but didnt...Cue vid



However got back on and as you can see, that would have been a clear round - how gutting. He is going so well but I just need a seatbelt.

I honestly thought he was going to somersault hence my quick exit (some survival instinct?!) and I was lucky that wasn't more of an accident.

Onto XC. I didn't want to go at all. I felt so guilty for how I have been riding him recently and I just wasn't in the mood. But it was a nice course and probably one of the toughest he has seen so I wanted him to do it.

He was perfect over first few fences :



Number 8 was an innocuous ditch palisade, however I didn't see a stride coming into it - didn't kick and he slid into the ditch. Popped over alternative and carried on - never had a problem before so it was just me...again.

Classy through the first water (which I thought was tough)



And then in the quarry/coffin (rolltop to a ditch to a barrells with the barells separately numbered) he saw the ditch at the last moment, went to put down and ended up with feet either side of the fence. He popped himself over and then we popped the ditch but I circled before the barrels - was that dangerous riding or not? He was only on the fence for about 2 seconds and had it been ANY longer I would have gotten off pronto but it was so quick he launched himself. (clever pone)

Anyway onto the last few fences, I was riding like a wally (still, a bit shaken me thinks) but he was mega - did I really need to attack so much into the last water?! No! Love him..





So if my computer doesn't delete this then I am off to bed. Yes ok my record is now looking a bit shocking but I have now had my 3 falls and hopefully no more!
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p.s. where is all my good karma from helping out at events recently?!
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You're incredibly hard on yourself! From the videos i can tell you're a fantastic rider who just had an unlucky fall in the SJ. Very good reactions and i'm impressed with the speedy remount!!

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You are both more than capable! When everything clicks you will be a force to be reckoned with!
Don't be too harsh with yourself (bad luck comes in 3's so you are due a change in fortunes!)

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I think your problems are up here... *taps head*. I'm sure you'll apply the requisite kick up the behind and be back on track next time. Very stylish dismount btw, though a little bow afterwards would have improved it!
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Hopefully just a blip- I'm sure you'll bounce back next time (literally :P )
Shame you had a glitch xc too- but like you say, you probs werent in the best frame of mind
 
Thanks guys - I hope he is ok this morning

GB yeah you are spot on but I was a lot better yesterday than I have been - I was positive about how I was going to ride, but then that happened!
 
Jules I think you do what I do and make a mistake then replay it endlessly in your mind until it becomes this huge issue.

After the SJ it would have done you good to find a quiet spot sit down and visualised the xc and how you are going to ride each fence perfectly. I think you have huge talent and your pony is mega but you need more focus on the sports psychology side of things. Google around on the internet do a bit of research and maybe phone a few people to get some tips on the psychological side of competition.

Does that sound loopy?... I'm no raving hippy but I think the psychological side of competitive sports gets overlooked and as you clearly have talent and skill in bucket fulls I think if you worked on your mental attitude and how to handle things when there is a blip you would have it cracked.

Focus on the positive
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Jules.... you ARE yoo hard on yourself. Such cool composure after your fall in the SJ... finishing your round beautifully...give yourself some credit!
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I expect you were feeling more wobbly than you realised for the XC.... but well done.
This looks to me like all stuff that when you can find a way to put it to bed... you will be on that winning streak we all know you are both capable of!! Chin up.
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Some days sh1t just happens, no matter what you do.

Put it down to experience don't dwell on it and move on. You obviously didn't knock Zebs confidence, so instead ot beating yourself up congratulate yourself for being positive enough to finish the job yesterday.

BTW I would score the fall and landing a 9 for elegance and artistic impression!
 
I just saw your facebook and came on here to find out details!!!

It sounds like your problems are in your head hun....and i know exactly how that feels!!! I can recommend someone who really really helped me out with that if you want? PM me if you would like her details.

Zeb looked fab round the rest of that sj, and so did you. Plus very classy through that 1st water xc. I'm sure if will come together so dont drive yourself crazy overthinking every tiny mistake you make.
 
Very hard luck Jules, but it will come right. You are doing exactly the right thing in putting it behind you and thinking very positive for Hambleden - nice that you have another one so soon to get out there and get rid of those demons.
 
the mistake in the sj was 1/2 and 1/2 i think, you didn't quite ride fwd enough, and he paddled across the top of it very greenly... he could definitely have made a better job of it.
i don't want to be the lone voice in the wilderness, but have you thought of having your next run at PN, just to make sure the wheels are back on? only really because that sj mistake was very green, and it sounds as if he had a couple of small confidence issues xc too. he looks a really super little jumper when he believes in you!
 
You are definitely too hard on yourself! He is a super little chap, and i absolutely love his attitude...he is a little spring box!! And from the vids you put up i think you do a great job with him, so please don't put yourself through the mill too much.

I would have to agree with kerilli tho...i think the mistakes he made in the SJ and also on the XC by the sounds of it (like getting straddled over a jump when seeing a ditch, and going into the ditch earlier on) sounds like he has gone a bit green on you after whats happened....so i would be tempted to take him round a PN to get his confidence back up before another N?
 
Jules you are def too hard on yourself but I can not talk as I am exactly the same, im such a perfectionist and am always so worried about it going wrong its difficult to be positive and think you CAN do it. I need a great big kick up the behind sometimes just like it sounds you do! You and your horsie are more then capable
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So consider this a HUGE kick up the behind for Hambledon!!
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Also he looks great in the vids!
 
Hey jules, don't be soooo hard on yourself, try to focus on the best bits whilst still learning from the mistakes you make! After doing the same as you at somerley, I had to be really hard on myself to think the sj at Powderham was going to be ok. So I was walking the sj yesterday telling myself it's not that big, its very rideable and I get to a large oxer and WFP turns round to me and says, blimey, thats a bloomin massive oxer!!!
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You'll be fine, you just need to stop putting so much pressure on yourself - not easy i know!! (speaking from experience!!!)
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Good luck at hambledon
 
Oh no! what a shame, I agree the SJ wasnt totally your fault, Zeb looked like he did go a little bit green on you. very stylish dismount from you though
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POSITIVE THINKING is what you need for your next event, you are both more than capable!
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Jules, you definately need to get rid of the negativity and the trying to find the answers to all that went wrong, otherwise this is going to continue to hamper you both.

I think you're having a bit of a confidence crisis, we all do and noone is perfect. Put the last couple of events behind you, learn from the mistakes and stop blaming your riding.

He's a smashing boy with one hell of a ping on him, just let him do it
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Well done on that dismount - that was pretty classy, and almost looked as though you did it intentionally!
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I think my friend and I saw you warming up for the dressage... You both look great, and know you can win, so try hard to put it behind you and think positively
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don't be so hard on yourself- you are both great- as you say you have had your 3 blips so next time it will go your way
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Blimey I go offline for a few hours and I get hundreds of replies!
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Thanks guys.

Re: PN run - have been dithering over this. I am entered in the N at Hambledon and he was going to have a break for a week or so (well an easy week) and then I was going to concentrate on some BSJA then go back into BE and looking at the calander I cannot fir in another PN before I go. I wanted to do the N at Mattingley as I liked that track and the PN at Wiltshire College is a small track isn't it? Hmm... I will try an go XC schooling before my next event probably.

With regards to the physcology side of things, agree totally. I do the whole visualisation things, I walk the course listening to music so I can focus myself (and I have to walk it alone without my Mum saying "ohhh I will jump that!") and various other things, but I do lose my confidence so quickly.

Umm, forgotten what else I was going to say
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Do you think it would help you to go back to PN? If its purely your head telling you you can't do it then PN will be fine then as soon as you go back to N you will tell yourself you can't do it before you even start again! Or that's what happens to me anyway.

I would carry on with the novice and just tell yourself you can do it and try really hard not to put so much pressure on yourself. I know its easier said than done.
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But I imagine the reason your fine out bsja is, because its not so important to you as the eventing and if you mess up one class in the day there's always another.

trouble is now you've talked yourself believing you can't do it! Try looking back at all the times when you have done well! Everyone makes mistakes
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jules, stop being so hard on yourself !
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Practice makes perfect and you and Zeb are an awesome pair
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Massive 'wimming' vibes are already on their way for a placing at Hambledon !
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xxx Flo
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You coped really well with the SJ mishap - well done for going XC, I can also imagine you were not quite as fine as you thought you were before you get back on - I do it all the time! Zeb is looking fab - Well done!
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Personally I think he is fine at Novice - been talking about it with Mum and he finds PN so easy - he's found all of his N runs easy XC the stop XC this weekend was purely me and the whole landing on the fence thing was Me because I didn't ride positively into it and just assumed I had ballsed it up and waited for the stop - does that make sense? Seriously bad riding but i wasn't in the right frame of mind. The more technical fences - such as that first water vid - he was MEGA and just ate them up - he seriously does find it easy

The SJ I was still so pleased with, I don't care I fell off because I know it was one of those things and things really do happen in 3's.

Im just going to go out at Hambledon and kick some arse and hope to GOD that I am over all this. I am feeling so positive and will just take him slow XC and aim to be riding more positively, more effectively, and most importantly, give him more confidence (even though he is being VERY cocky today
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