Comments on: Breaks for Jumps

By: Becca

Becca — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:38:13 +0000

My horse refuses at logs on the trail a lot. I ride bareback, but when I feel that my horse is about to put on the breaks, if i know that she’s going to stop, i like to drop me heels and sit deep. It keeps me on.

By: Briana

Briana — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 08:05:29 +0000

Thanks

By: Inge

Inge — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:49:03 +0000

I think this is very good advice. Keeping your horse focused on the job at hand and in front of your leg aid is good advice.I have found that some horses don’t clearly understand what the leg aid means. I suggest that riders go back to doing leg yields and the basics of ground work to clearly teach horse what is expected of him when the leg aid is used. I also have seen that in this country riders are taught to ride in a “Hunt Seat” or Half seat before they even get to jump. I believe this is one of the reasons horses will refuse or duck out on a jump. The rider is ahead of the horse. The rider should sit a bit deeper on the approach and get horse “In front” of their leg and then go into a 2 point when horse is committed to jump and actually has lifted his front end up to go over jump.

By: Brianna

Brianna — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:04:21 +0000

This really helped with my horse. She was a reining horse efore a hunter-jumper, and she finds it very fun to slide right before a jump. She now understands that she has to go over the jumps and not into it. She is now up to 4 ft jumps! I know this has nothing to do with the decorative jumps but it still helped me.

By: antonia

antonia — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:50:05 +0000

ok so i have a 13yr old appendix quarter horse and i would like to start jumping him. i have free lunged him over 3ft jumps and it looks like he might be able to go higher. but heres my problem, when ever i ride him around jumps he gets too forward and wont collect. when ever i jump him he runs and either jumps it way to high or stops dead and sends me flying, or run out and completly ovoids the jump

By: Bejamin Artium

Bejamin Artium — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:14:02 +0000

I forgot to say that the question above is great and I love the answer you gave the person.

By: Benjamin Artium

Benjamin Artium — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:11:27 +0000

I need some HELP with my 11 year old gelding. He is a Russian-Arabian and every time i try to jump im he naps every time, except when he is right on top of another horse in front of him. He has thrown me a time or two. I have had a professional come to help me with him and he did fantastic with her but when she left he went right back to napping.
I really need some help from any one who can.

By: Silvia

Silvia — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:46:42 +0000

I have a problem with my horse that whenever i’m about to jump he slips to the side. He never used to do that and know i dont know what to do. It’s driving me crazy becouse on shows he does the same thing.
can someone tell me what to do ???

By: CAt

CAt — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:26:59 +0000

I have had this problem before and it’s really nice to find a way to help solve it.

By: f

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:19:58 +0000

good info