Lesson Report!

[greeneyes13]

Hiya! its the "can't sit still over jumps" lassie back to update you all.
Well its definiately fair to say all your kind advice paid off (kedwards and Bay Mare especially( :) I think both of you told me to try and concentrate on pushing my bum back towards the back of the saddle as i went over. funnily enough this does stop you throwing yourself up the horses neck and also forces weight down into your heels.
absolutely 100 times better than last week and i even has a new horse to contend with. he had the lllooonnggeessttt neck i've ever come across. even stretching out my hands they only came up to just after his withers! bit ploddy at first but i soon had him dancing around happily! :D

[Bay Mare]

That's great news :) Well done.

When I first started jumping you DID throw yourself up the horses neck! Coming back to riding many years later no-one told me that I should do the butt thing ... well, until I went over the jump before the horse and broke my ribs :rolleyes: After that they told me about the differences in technique these days and it really helped :D The other bit of info that helped me was being told to think of releasing rather than folding.

It sounds like you had a great lesson, I like horses with necks, jumping ponies has always scared me as it feels like there isn't a neck there (though what I NEED the neck for is another thing entirely ... I have ended up sat on the neck a couple of times when they've put in a dirty stop :eek: ).

[greeneyes13]

i wonder in years to come will they ever decide they've been teaching us something all backwards again. :rolleyes:
im not sure ive ever ridden a pony im 22 and only riding for a yr(discounting a couple of months lessons as a teenager) so ive always had nice big horses. :)
jumped a lovely big parallel jump last night with absolutely no probs so i was very pleased.
a friend of mine was watching the lesson and got talking to a man beside him watching his daughter and that man said i was very good had i been riding a couple of yrs?! the style! :cool:

[kedwards]

Good job! How nice to get the unsolicited compliment by the bystander, as well!