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media type="youtube" key="Hy68RU-D87c" height="344" width="425" Title: Training If you learn things right from the beginning, it is much easier later. Rider's best teacher is the horse, but you need a good coach too. The best will be if you starts with the right horse at once. Each rider ride differently and the horses are also different to ride. Some horses are heavy in the mouth, dead to ride on or they are hot horses. But a good rider can ride all types of horses. When you work on a daily basis it is important to make the muscles on the horse soft, to build muscles and to get the horse in a good shape. If you will become a good show jumper, you must have the feeling!!!!!! And you need a good eye to judge where you are in relation to the fence. You should see where you are and be able to act; either to ride forward or to have ice in the stomach and just wait. If you see totally wrong it can end with a totally crash and the horse can get scared and will not jump. Feeling It is very important. You must feel the horse when it jumps, and ride normally and bee soft in you hand and still have the contact whit his mouth. When we jump We train a lot on the rhythm, on the balance, how to ride the lines and to jump gymnastic over fences. We also train the horses to think self and to learn of their mistakes. If you have a good rhythm, it is easier to come out of the corner and come perfect on the fence and the horse can make a good jump. A good rhythm, also gives a good speed. Balance and control You need to have a good balance for not interfere the horse over the fence - and to not fell of the horse after the fence. When a horse jump it feels like to fly, but not all horses. Some horses use they back much when they jump, and then you can lose the balance over the fence. In the landing it is sometimes difficult to come in balance again, because you can be thrown forward. The horse need to be in balance to make a good jump. You also need to have the control over you horse. It is easier for the horse to jump when it is in balance and canter is correct. Ride lines It is lots off different lines to practise when you ride. We train to jump lines because on a competition its lots of difficult lines in the bigger classes. To practise broken lines is specially difficult but important. We need to use the eyes for see where we are and if we need to get in or out on the line or hold back or ride forward. You and the horse need to be in balance and you should have control over the horse. Gymnastic jumping We can trott over poles so the horse need to think self and watch his legs. Just have a steady rhythm. Don’t be tempted to change your position when the horse picks his feet up over the poles and if there comes a small jump at the end of the line after the poles. You just follow the horse with you upper body. Gymnastic jumping is good for the horses and you can stretch the horse on a different way and make more muscles. For example, canter over small fences in a line and over to trot over some poles and switch between right and left and make the canter smaller and bigger before you came in over the small fences again. An other example is to jump figure-of– eight loop. A good rider has a plan how to ride a courses carefully. They look ahead to the next jump and know exactly where their horses are going to take off and how many strides they take between each fence. Have a plan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!