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| | I've been working on the crossrails for a while now, in small courses, and have only gone over one vertical. I'd like to start moving up in height but am not sure what I need to accomplish/improve before I do that. I've asked my instructor but she is always vague. I feel comfortable on the flat and am not currently cometing. Once you were going over crossrails, what did you need to do/improve before you were able to move up to verticals and then higher heights? I'd like to know what to expect! TIA
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| I would trust your instructor. It's much better to go slower than faster. Your instructor probably knows what's best for you so I would abide by what she says. You didn't say how long you've been riding (and doing crossrails) because that's important too. I've been riding for 8 1/2 years and I didn't jump until 2 years into riding. After that I did 2 ft courses for what felt like forever (only 2 yrs) until my instructor felt that we had advanced enough to do bigger things. It takes time but having the abilities to ride correctly will make jumping bigger more fun.
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| ~EventSTA~ (10/4/2008)
I would trust your instructor. It's much better to go slower than faster. Your instructor probably knows what's best for you so I would abide by what she says. You didn't say how long you've been riding (and doing crossrails) because that's important too. I've been riding for 8 1/2 years and I didn't jump until 2 years into riding. After that I did 2 ft courses for what felt like forever (only 2 yrs) until my instructor felt that we had advanced enough to do bigger things. It takes time but having the abilities to ride correctly will make jumping bigger more fun. Yeah. ^ It really takes time to develop a secure enough position to move on to jumping bigger things. Have you jumped x-rails doing no-hands, stirrupless, and so on. You need to be able to do pretty much everything over x-rails before you move on to the bigger jumps. :)
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| | As I said in my original post, I just want to know what to expect...I do trust my intstructor as to the timing, but when I ask what else I need to learn, what other things we will do, etc, she is vague ("oh, we'll kep working on things..." "not yet" "it takes some time" "there are different things, depends on the day"). I don't like going into each lesson blind, so I just wanted a heads up on what we might work on in the coming lessons. That's why I asked what others had done prior to moving up. I appreciate the comment about stirrupless/reinless riding. I've done a bit of no stirrups, but not no reins over the corssrails. We've done both on the flat. Any once else have ideas on what I should expect prior to increasing the height? Things to get better at (rhythm, stability, etc) or lessons/activities (no stirrups, bounce jump, etc).
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| | really, don't worry about it so much. I know you're anxious to go higher, but you don't need to go really high to improve. I mean, I've jumped 2ft but I regularly work over crossrails; doing gymnastics, crossrail courses and trying to perfect my eq. If you're really bored with the crossrails, ask your trainer to set them up in a small course or pattern, to make it more interesting and challenging. as for what some of the others said about like, jumping them with no reins, I personally wouldn't do that since my pony would probably bolt or do something stupid. though, the no stirrups is a good idea. I jumped 2ft with no stirrups (not onpurpose...lol) and trust me, it's not easy!
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| Galileo (10/6/2008)
As I said in my original post, I just want to know what to expect...I do trust my intstructor as to the timing, but when I ask what else I need to learn, what other things we will do, etc, she is vague ("oh, we'll kep working on things..." "not yet" "it takes some time" "there are different things, depends on the day"). I don't like going into each lesson blind, so I just wanted a heads up on what we might work on in the coming lessons. That's why I asked what others had done prior to moving up.I appreciate the comment about stirrupless/reinless riding. I've done a bit of no stirrups, but not no reins over the corssrails. We've done both on the flat. Any once else have ideas on what I should expect prior to increasing the height? Things to get better at (rhythm, stability, etc) or lessons/activities (no stirrups, bounce jump, etc). I'm not saying this directly to you but..why do people want to know what to expect in lessons? I mean you go to learn to ride and basically from your last lesson there maybe an idea of what you'll practice in the next one. And there are many things that you may work on: jumping stirrup less, gymnastics, reinless jumping, she make take you guys riding out in a field, you may ride more complicated horses, do more complicated jumps...it all really depends on what she has planned.
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