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You guys look good... trust me theres always things everyone needs work on... I would work on your leg position a little and the horses head a little but your looking good.

Your horse looks like a decent jumper, she has good form for the height you're schooling. But she isn't very collected. I'd like to see her giving to you more by flexing at her poll and therefore not nosing out, and collecting her stride more up under you. Practice some bending/flexing exercises to get her to give more at the poll and to collect her a bit.

You look okay, but I'm guessing that you're maybe a bit new to jumping?.. No offense intended if not, but there are some fundamentals that I think could improve your equitation.

In the first part of your video where you're trotting, your upper body doesn't look too bad. I would, however, like to see you with a little more bend in your elbows, allowing for greater extension when you jump. Makes for a better two point.

I also agree that you're stirrups should be a bit shorter. This will help you to keep weight in your stirrups and hold your position better. Your legs tend to move away from/around your horse as you post; grip with your calves and stretch those heels down.

As you jump your legs tend to fly back. This will throw off your balance and bring your heels up. Practice your two point while keeping your legs still on your horses sides, toes forward and heels down. This should help you with your equitation over fences.

You do a good job looking to your next jump though. :) Hope this helps.

You look like your still kinda getting the hang of things with this horse.

I think your stirrups need to be shortened a hole or two, so you can put more weight in your heels - that will stop your lower leg from pivoting back or "swinging" while your over the fence.

One more thing I noticed, is your arms - I like how your reaching forward, but bend your elbows (noticed this at the trot), and let them flow - you won't bounce your hands around and get that "contact-no contact-contact-no contact" bounce - and it'll make your horse's head a little more quiet since the bit isn't moving as much. :)

Keep it up! <3

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Another thing I noticed is you kinda got left behind at the first fence. Maybe if you get in two-point a half a stride to a stride before, you'll flow easier. After that first fence though, you stayed with your mount.

Also, she looks a little shorter-stepped in the right hind leg, so I don't know if she's older, a lesson horse, or what. But she doesn't track up under as much as the left. Don't know her history or anything, but... Just a thought :)

Do not move your hands up and down when you post. Your hands should be steady. You could have your hands lower. Keep your elbows closer to you and bent more.

Your whole leg is not steady when you post or go over fences. It should not move. Your ankles are moving too much if you're not asking the horse to keep going. Your ankles shouldn't move if you're not asking him for a cue. I can't tell if they are just moving from you posting or not.

First two jumps: You let the horse throw you up when you go over the fence. You should remain steady and not raise any higher than your two-point position. Hold your legs, back, and elbows steady while you go over. Keep your butt over the saddle and your heels down.

The last two jumps you looked good. So did the horse. You could work on headset.

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You look pretty good! The only thing I can see is that your lower leg seems to swing back over the jumps. Perhaps shortening your stirrups. Also working without stirrups is great for working on your leg position!

Well I hope this helps! :)

im not really very knowlegable about jumping or english but i would love to learn (take lessons) for both...

i ride western

when your trotting you look like your lil bit tense....

try putting your hands down a little bit and most likely it will help bring her head down. and it might have just been me or the video but it looked like your saddle was sliding back a little bit

you look really good other than that

like i said i dont really know much about english riding or jumping

ur wounderful but when u start u could sit straight in the saddle and then lean forward on aporching the jump about 4 strides into the jump it looks beter that way =]

your arms look to far faward away from your side,

i think you need to work on bringing them back closer to your body cause having them that far faward causes a loss of your centre of seat balance as you are leaning faward. try bringing you arms in a bit closer to your sides and see how that goes, you can still keep your reins tight without having your arms that far down the reins

hope that helped

you both look pretty nice =)

your horse has a nice tuck over fences.

over fences you may want to watch your leg... it looks like it slides back a bit and you want to keep it steady.

=)