Who doesn't like jumping and why?

I used to be terrified of jumping. Anything bigger than a trotting pole and I would refuse to do it. One day I was asked to join the jumping group and had no excuse so did... best thing I ever did! Absolutely love it now! Still concentrate on my dressage but love the odd jumping class or hunter trail!
 
When I was about 10 my little pony would not jump no one could get him to do it he just hated it! I totaly lost my nerve but did dressage with him and loved it. My next pony was one of those ones you only own once in a live time and I got my confidence jumping him, I believe he is now with a 4* eventer teaching his daughter :D

As for now, I'm bored of jumping! For the last two years its been drummed into me I gotta do this I gotta do that I gotta go competing twice a week and now I'm bored of it. I don't know yet what I want as my next horse but I'm thinking of a mainly dressage horse but could also do the odd little jumping class as I just don't enjoy the competitive side of jumping anymore.
 
Im 23 and dont think i will ever go over a jump again.
When i was younger, i didnt like jumping but used to every now and again.
My first ever jump lesson at age 11 didnt go well, i fell off at the end of the lesson and wasnt allowed back on the horse as time was up (terrible place). This was a special present lesson as we were moving so i didnt have chance to get back on a horse for about 3 months, giving me perfect fear of jumping.
However i used to jump everynow and again, but i was never any good at it. Ive always put this down to having partial hearing, being deaf in one ear means im terrible at balancing and can fall over just standing still (no exageration!).
Many years later i fell off jumping big time (fallen off before with broken ribs etc) but this time dislocated my shoulder and damaged the shoulder socket. This means now my shoulder can dislocate at anytime, the last time was opening the curtains, and means my arm is in a sling for weeks, whilst im in pain.

Since then ive never really jumped, and dont really plan to again. Never enjoyed it, and seemed to end badly, so i dont feel im missing anything, ill stick to dressage.....
though i did just fall off and break my coccyx doing dressage...hahaha...Ill stick to the flat for now!!
 
I like it - I like the thrill of it - but I think I'm too rubbish at it. I have a fantastic horse who will jump anything, but he does give the jumps a rather a big clearance.

We did 2'3 a month ago, and he jumped so big I thought we may as well enter the bigger class - 2'9 - which was today. Problem was, he still gave the fences a big clearance! We managed the first three jumps and then I just bounced straight out the saddle. So it's not my horse's fault, it's mine!

(Feeling a bit sorry for myself as I now have a sore butt)
 
I don't, because I haven't really done it!

I'd just started doing tiny tiny cross poles in my weekly lessons, when I ended up loaning a horse and stopping the lessons. However, my horse LOVES jumping, and I now feel like I owe it to her to get back to having lessons, and bringing myself up to her ability. I'd love to do a cross country course with her one day, but after "popping" a 2ft log hacking last weekend it may take some time... lost both stirrups, flew out the saddle, somehow landed back on on it, sideways, and grabbed chunks of mane, clinging on while my trusty steed cantered merrily on through the woods lol!!
 
I had a horse with a nasty stop and this buggered up my nerve. I like jumping low jumps but if it gets higher (than say a farm ride type jumps - eg somerford for those who know it..) I get scared... I stick to flatwork as a general rule...

Bx
 
Ive never been that fussed on jumping, I can take it or leave it. I don't dislike it, and it doesn't frighten me or anything but if I don't have to, I don't tend to jump.

Because I don't jump very often though, I can't say as I look very stylish whilst doing it!!:o
 
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