how do you think we did at our first show in a while?
this was my first show in over 3 years.. i stopped leassons becuase i moved from georgia to montana and it’s hard to find riding instructors. I bought a horse named blackjack about 2 years ago and jumped him and practaced at home. Last saterday i rode him at rebecca farms. This was his first big show like this ever! How do you think we did?
my opinion on what i saw might be a little different lol. i’m going to start off and say that i would love to get my hands on your horse – i think he has talent, has the kind of stride and spring i like to see.
i saw a really nervous horse and rider at the start. neither one of you looked sure moving into the first jump, and the horse will read you like a book and feed off that. i actually saw improvement and more impetus in general as the show progressed which indicates increasing confidence in both of you, which is great.
you have a LOT of work to do reading jumps and pacing / striding your horse before them. those little quick steps before taking off are really bad habits and they not only bring jumps down, they break the forward moving impetus you need to have. you have to practice a constant rhythm, like 1 -2 -jump, not 1-2-little step-jump. you need to keep practicing to develop that fluid forward moving even flow, and a huge part of that, is your ability to read a jump, and let your horse know when he should take off.
you need to be lighter in the saddle for showjumping. i know some ppl like the deeper hunter seat, but i fin dit too heavy, and being lighter in the saddle approaching a jump, not only going over it, allows your horse more freedom of movement and suppleness, without having to fight an opposing pressure pushing his back down, when he is trying to get it up.
the jumps you two approached correctly, you cleared making the jump look 6 inches high, and whenit looks easy, you know you got it right. you have a good horse there – keep up the shows!
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