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  • horse is beautiful 

  • I want ur horse!

  • good jump! you are a very good rider and your horse is beutifull!

  • Gorgeous horse, but I would say that you are pulling back on the landing, try an automatic release? :D Gorgeous horse

  • Wow a beautiful horse he /she is gorgeous

  • we was just doing Jumping a Gymnastic Line's and this makes me look crap! you suit each other well! look at my video i'll load in a min! thanks x

  • soo fun!!

  • what breed of horse is he/she?

  • @LizzsLizards she claims to be an expert and wants to give advice .. so she should accept critiques and applauses its how life is.

    people target experts on the slightest mistakes they find and as i see it her ridding is normal (good enough) and she knows how to deal with the horse but she isnt an expert she has some flaws in her riding as people here pointed out

  • very weel ridden :) is it jus me or when that horse is jumpin does this strange noise be made :L l0l gorge horse btw :)

  • OMG! BITLESS BRIDLE!!

  • The horse is sooo pretty! :O

  • LIES!! THERES ONLY SIX!!!

  • @flyingchangeequine91

    there are 7, the second set of blocks are hard to see behind the wing of the first set of standards.

  • @flyingchangeequine91 You dont know how to count then :)

  • I have to disagree with a lot of people here. I think your position is fine. What I like about it is that it's still and you don't make a big deal out of it.

  • That is just beutiful!

  • my trainer set up a grid like this for me once...I felt like I was riding a kangaroo

  • @SmallShadowOfDoubt Try riding on 3 year old OTB over this fast but really fun. :)

  • I see that most of the people when they're trotting they rise a kind of a forward not up...so which way is good?

  • @simpleshoes2009 allow your hips to follow the trajectory created by the horses hips - that is forwards and up at a 45 degree (ish) angle depending on the horse- will allow you to have a soft following post that should feel natural and not like work :)

  • hey my horse wont keep his trot or canter hes too lazy how can i prevent this how do u teach him to keep his trot and canter???

  • @Shiloh1096 Keep your leg on. Now you have an even bigger problem because he has learned that you will let him break whenever he decides to, and that is a big no no. He needs to learn to stop when YOU decide to stop.

    Now you have to break that habit and he is probably going to fuss about it, so be ready for the pissy attitude! but you have to keep your leg on with constant pressure and teach him what you want to do. you will probably have to exaggerate your movements till' he gets it.

  • @MissJenCale OMG thanks sooo much Ill try my best and tell you how hes doing haha hes rly fat too hes overwieght so yeah hes goin on a diet -.-

  • Good video but the stide is wrong on the last fence its too far out.

  • @SJFaye Maybe that's the challenge. Maybe that horse has some issues reaching fences in similar situations on competitions, and need to work on it.

  • Hey Cubetacular4cake, you have no idea what your talking about... hahahha a Gymnastic Line like this only has one stride in between therefore you cant trot it.. She looked flawlesss.

  • If you would watch me jump, I appear to have very little release or jumping position/two-point between jumps. Why? Because if you know your horse and have a lot of jumping experience, you know how to just follow your horse's movement and adjust your own position accordingly. If your horse takes a long spot, give a bigger release and get out of the saddle. All of these techniques are basically just to get out of your horse's way while he jumps. Don't criticize unless your horse is this good!

  • @hidenseeker424 AMEN!

  • Better than I do....... Very nice!! = ) Let's not slag on people right? We're all in training for the same purpose. To ride better... she's not some hill-jack jumping shit with no trainer on some junk in the back yard, she's actively learning. (and better than me I might add) again.)

  • Wow Your Goood!! :D

  • WOW!!! THats amazing!!!

  • nice!

    

  • your amazing, dont know what all the bad comments are about:S

  • Great video; Very informational; Good quality and accurate advise, with nothing fancy or over the top :) loved it ♥

  • People should stop saying the bad thigs about this! her position is fine! and yes it does say trot but she got over it fine so does it really matter? grow up and lets see you ride?

  • no offence but the comment says trot but at the end its Clearly a canter and inbetween the jumps its clearly a canter.

  • @TwilightsDudey Shes entering it at the trot. The jumps are set up for canter strides, and if she took the whole thing at a trot it wouldn't have turned out so fluidly.

  • @cubetacular4cake

    it says trot. she enter at canter and the strides inbetween were canter.

  • @TwilightsDudey The first fence she trotted into and cantered further while.

  • Whoo you are so good <3

  • @theCiscolover11 haha this is Mara Keith-Hunter of course she's good. :)

  • good exercice!

  • omg this gymnastic is so much fun!!!! only only did it with 3 tho but still :D ur like boingy, boingy, boingy, boingy and canter offf ^-^

  • @fireballarabian I was taught half seat and two point were the same thing... one point is sitting in the saddle, two point is jumping position and 'three' point was standing straight up in your saddle... and half seat was jumping position. I dont really know but thats what my trainer taught me and she was titled a champion hunter jumper in several different shows. Not disagreeing, just confused.

  • @fireballarabian When jumping, half seat makes jumping a lot easier and she's not stay in two point, she's simply going into half seat, jumping the next fence and doing the same. The bounce jumps aren't easy and staying in half seat makes riding them a lot easier.

  • i did this once, but with 4 jumps. it was a bounce (2jumps) then a 2 stride and then a 1 stride. i cant remember exactly though. but it was fun. i havnt jumped in months though. :(

  • How many steps is a horses stride? How do I know where to put the second jump?

  • @hugo12707 generally four regular human steps equals one medium sized horse stride... in a gymkhana you can seperate them by nine feet which would be a bounce jump.

  • @TheLuckyGirl91 thanks :]

  • awesome job

  • Ich finde dieses Pferd wunderschön ich liebe Apfelschimmel O.O

  • I love her horse!

  • hahahaha this is in Crazy Horse Jumping!!!!! lol

  • ok so my trainer has been offered to go to the olympics and i know what the release is spose to look like and trust me this rider knows what she is doing mkay people~!

  • hey people who r being rude..... can i c U RIDE

  • Lovely canter

  • your horse is so nice

  • That looks like a horse I used to jump with, during my riding lessons. Gosh, I did love riding and jumping. Even had the opportunity to do a seminar with Ian Millar once. That was amazing, cause I got to ride for him, and he even complimented me.

  • the captions are so spot on it's ridiculous.

  • yeah and besides her release is subtle and hardly there. in a combination u r meant to keep a good contact and they are small jumps, u dont need a huge release anyway.

  • ha ha what makes it so funny

  • @fireballarabian Yeah. I, personally, am a fan of staying a little out of the saddle between jumps in a line like this because you're less likely to get behind - especially with the bounce jumps.

  • @fireballarabian I've heard it both ways. I've been taught sitting back in position between the two jumps and staying in two point between them. Honestly, I think it's what you feel comfortable with and what you believe works with your horse, as long as you continue to release and go up when necessary. A good rider should be able to approach that line in two point and go through the whole thing still in two point without problems.

  • is it a bounce one stride bounce one stride bounce one stride?

  • lol i agree wish gsukrq06 and my take on releases are you should only release as much as the horse needs, as long as you don't his him in the moth on the landing then its not to small but if your throwing your reins you will have to work harder on the landing to get your contact back and get him on the bit and for him to be responsive to your aids lol but yea thats just me, I like the way she rides, very quiet but assertive :)

  • nice rider. I do this all the time at home! its so much fun and really does help a lot!

  • nice jumping beautiful horse.

    i subbed please sub bak

  • You are a lovely rider. I would release a bit more, but you make it soo smooth .

  • Nice Riding,

    Beautiful Horse. :3

  • well she doesnt have to throw herself to give a release. just moving her arms a couple inches. but yes she does move with him. but the horse could use a little rein to be able to stretch. very good position btw

  • the horse moves beautiful! just make sure you are releasing more. then everything is perfect. good job!

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  • I think that this video was well made and the horse is beautiful I might add. I notcied (not critizing) that when the horse was jumping he/she would bend its neck over the jump then relax.

  • Everyone needs to stop criticising her riding ability! She is a very good rider, honestly the horse doesnt look the easiest to handing over fences!

  • will u guys stop criticising her riding! i bet if u looked at ur own riding in the same way u wud find lots of mistakes!

    before picking the spec of dust out of ur brothers eye, check the plank of wood in ur own

  • great jumping ! that horse is gorgeous =]

  • I jump horses and she is doing it right! jeez people you might do it diferent but she was tought that way!

  • because its true!

  • It looks like he had to really stretch to get to the last jump in the right amount of strides. I think your holding him a bit to much.

  • @xHannahsongx I don't think thats the easiest horse to ride. I know her and I've seen him. Unless you know the background shut up

  • well if its hard horse to ride she shouldn't be doing "expert" videos on it.

  • well, it just shows the riders expertise in riding hard horses

  • you really need to release more! Your popping him in the mouth every time you go over the jumps.

  • she is NOT popping him in the mouth. she has a perfect release. you shouldn't throw your hands up the horses neck. especially when doing a gymnastic line. its really dangerous if you do so, because your allowing the horse to drop on forehand or dive out to the side in front of the next jump. i have learned from many trainers to always have light contact ALL the way over the jump just like this rider in this video.

  • what!!! u dont know what ur talking about!! u must put ur hands up their neck so they have some head to jump clearly!!! get a book about jumping!!!

  • @Crazydancer4197

    unless you are experienced yourself don't speak up. The books are to help beginners to understand and exaggerate things. Those are baby jumps and hardly require a release. It's not like she's reefing on his mouth or anything!

  • You say this on nearly every jumping vid...

  • @ponylover4884 stupid

  • ur stupid!! horses r hard to ride!!!! i should know from falling so many times!!! it hurts!!!!

    NJ

  • she follows the horse, and that's what you are supposed to do. shes not throwing her body at him, she stays quiet and goes with his motion.

  • you look too tense. let the horse look at the jumps more, you're holding it's head up too high. you say with comfort, but you look way too tense to me. You're saying "careful to watch the horses strides and comfort". I'm sorry, but you're not an expert equestrian and It doesn't mean much to others just coming from you.

  • @pianomusic1000 umm loads of horses carry their head high...my horse being 1 of them...she isnt tense...if she was the horse wud react 2 the tension by side stepping etc not jump as neatly as it does here...unless u r mistaking her good position as tense...

    sori 4 rant jus cant stand people nit picking at some1s riding

  • i will take her advice in :)

  • Nice Riding. All I suggest is to release a bit more, Your kind of restricting the horses neck and head! Other than that, you guys make a fantastic team. Gymnastics are a blastt(:

  • WOW!!! that was AMAZING!!!!! that actually looks like ALOT of FUN!!! hahaha.. of course u have to say concentrated=D

  • dont get me wrong but im sure you lot are good riders and stuff but she doesnt look bad and if she is what the others are saying she is (which i am sure she is) then trust me your advise will totally be flushed down the toilet altogether o next time dont be so rude and hurtful if your nto going to say anything nice dont say anything at all :) !

  • haha, it so funny how ppl criticize the riders position and release: 1. this is an e-how video, so shes not gonna see your advice! lol 2. her position is fine. shes not exagerating it because shes experienced and doesnt need to 3. i saw the release, it was subtle, with quite hands (more like an uberstreichen for you dressage buffs), which is how it should be for an experienced rider. 4. this video is by Mara Keith-Hunter............"she dont need yo help" lol!

  • ya i know, you guys the horse had tons of neck length. she was just not over exadgerating the release

  • ya i agree, you are a good rider but like jumpergirl9494 said, you are forward in the jumps, i would sit back in your butt a little more but still be able to lean forward enough to be able to have a comfordable 2-point position. other than that- Good Rider! :)

  • if i can tell a bad rider when i see one its you. you're so stupid that you can't tell a good rider when you see one, because you are so used to seeing bad ones. like yourself. so shut up, she knows what shes doing.

  • RELEASE ???????

  • no offence but ur 2 points liek really bad

  • lemme guess, you're one of those riders that think they know it all but dont. SHUT THE FUCK UP SHES THE FUCKING HEAD COACH FOR THE HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE EQUESTRIAN TEAM

  • Um jumpergirl, the cantle is the back of the saddle. The pommel is the front lol :)

  • Whoever said jumping 7 jumps is too many, think again. It's a great way to keep your horse's attention & focus on fixing other things instead of just focusing on a course. I think the hollow trotting issue that was mentioned should be addressed when doing flatwork, not in the middle of jumping. The only thing I noticed is that you're a little forward over the jumps. Pause at :35 and 1:04, you'll see that your rear is over the cantle of the saddle instead of the back. Otherwise, looks great!

  • your horse is pretty

    x

  • what breed?

    amazing horse..

    good rider too!

  • wow

  • the line looks very nice. On the long sides riding to the line the horse is always hollow to the outside and not carrying weight on his inside hind leg but rather balancing himself against the insight shoulder .....

  • because as soon as a horse jumps its usually goes into a canter

  • ya iv been learning to get into the habbit of giving my mare a release but if ur an expert u should already have it in you...

  • u need to release pour horse she came barely move her head over te jump

  • yeah its not good to jump 7 fences in a row like that smart stuff.....

  • its called a gymnastic line and its used to build the horses strength and flexibility. 7 fences is not too many for an experienced horse or rider; but definitely too many for a horse that is green or out of shape. this video was made by Mara-Keith Hunter; shes the head coach for the Hampshire College equestrian team....i have a feeling she knows what shes doing.

  • its best to have a horse that is controllable at a trot over a jump because most people think its best to just run them over a jump. no its about the control inbetween/over/after the jump. Not the speed, speed doesn't matter until you've got the control in hand.

  • cantering oveer jumps is way more fun than trotting coz trotting em is so borin

  • Yeh. When I trot my horse over the jump, she doesn't do it properly, so she just canters about a metre and a bit away from the jump (:

  • yah i know its more of a rush

  • its not big compered to our indoor lol

  • haha that looks fun! The most ive ever done is 4 jumps after each other because my ring isnt that big and we arent realy supossed to change jumps around... haha

  • why does it say trotting when she is cantering?

  • thats a big indoor arena

    ! !

  • nice jumping :)

  • I love gymnastics but my barn does not allow the course to be changed. Gymnastics build up muscle without jumping the horse hunge all the time and builds up wind! I like alot of small 2'3" up to 2'9" in my gymnastics.

  • Cute Horse!

  • What's your horses name? (s)hes beautiful :)

  • awe i love jumping grids, this looks fun!

  • imagine setting up that line though... tough work carrying all the poles you need :P

  • not bad. she needs to keep her back straight in a two pointer though.

  • "two pointer" Ha!

  • wow nice job cute horse

  • Well ridden! I did bounces in my jumping lesson today. Grid work is something every horse and rider should do. It's great for balance.

  • your a really good jumper really good!!!!!

  • Why does everyone insult each others ridng skills? Is this normal in the equestrian world?

  • haha yep, when they're too scared to say it in real life, they say it in the comments. I like constructive comments, but honestly, the head coach for the Hampshire College equestrian team is not going to listen to these comments on youtube anyways.

  • Haha yes i don't think so either! It's just very odd that some people are so bitchy to one another! I read somewhere that even the top showjumpers etc don't say they are great riders coz there is always something else to learn. Yet a bit of support from fellow riders surely wouldn't be to much to ask!!! ah well such is life :-)

  • yess... unfourtionatly

  • @ HaflingerAddiction: Ohmigosh! I totally thought no one used the term backseat anymore. -tackles-

  • at 0:35 she is already sitting on his back and they are just over the arch! horrible eq

  • Actually that is called a backseat, and needed much in 3-day eventing. It takes a long time to get that down.

  • your good!!! no affence but your 2 point is wierd. love your horse!

  • Her 2pt is great. She is very elastic and it helps that her horse is very athletic!

  • It's good! Just not like mine! I stand up more,with the horse i ride.

  • This is actally what 2 point is SUPOSE to look like...Staying up and with the horse, not laying on their necks, or cought up behind the motion landing on their backs and ripping their mouths off.

  • your horse is so cute! lov the way he jumps

  • to trackjunky: i don't get your point... you said that your coach said to trot the first jump and canter the rest.. that is exactly what she did...

  • i think she was responding to the comment by chloe1321 of "thats in canter not trot!"

  • canter or trot wither way she jmuped it stop beeing so picky !! , stunning your horse has very light strides and is very floaty, i love doing bounces and doubles and strides, but then agen i fell of onto a jump wing on a third jump of a combination , and it was a roll top, good job i dodnt fall on that !, stunning horse, have you got a video of all 2-7 line becos i cant find them all if you have just reply tothis comment the link/tag thingy-ma-bobby thankyou. good job stunning horse

  • she trotted to the jump. my instructor, when i first started jumping, i asked if it was ok if he cantered in between the jumps. her reply was "We are jumping now, you may trot the first fence, you must canter everything else"  when it comes to gymnastics anways.

  • aww your horse is beautiful! i love his colour! i love doing gymnastics with my horse, they' re soo much fun! :)

  • Thats In Cater Not Trot!

  • Allow with your hands!

  • He jumped that in a canter not a trot

  • they trotted in. you don't typically trot through an entire gymnastic. you trot in and canter out.

  • cute horse, hes great. i have a horse just like himm his name is huey.

    he jumped it straight and everything!

    if you can, please respond giving me some hints on keeping my horse straight while jumping a line or a gymastic!

    thanks!

    morgan

  • hmm. i know you where not asking me but.

    maybe, if he turns a cirtain way you could have a crop/stick/whip in the hand which he turns to, just to back up your leg and hand.

    also, if you have problems you could try just having a good few strides before the jumps to get straight, and then just keep your hand and leg even and strong :D

    i probably didn't help.

    x

  • lay 2 ground rails in front of a jump, kinda like a chute to keep your horse straight...i've seen it help green horses a lot.

  • the horse i ride is young so he's not very straight either. My instructor tells me after a jump to stop straight instead of to keep going around the corners or something...hope that helps a bit!

  • I think the horse and the rider are good togethter and everyone needs help!! I like the video and I think you should just back off! Its hard enough to ride a horse without people telling her shes not good because she likes it and thats all that matters!!! Good Job

  • wow thats amazing to watch. lol my 15.2 hand horse won't even jump a jump that is about a foot high.

    verryy good though :]

  • This is basically a comment for "TheEmmaMarything". One of the first things you should learn when riding, is that it is very rare that you know as much as you think you do. Your position is not better than this riders, the grid and the height of it are indeed correct. Perhaps the lesson you should take away is that you need to think before you criticise other riders.....kk?

  • I that was an okay exercise for your horse, a little too much for my personal taste, but the ride wasn't bad.

  • uhhmm...

    you let him have his head more so reall y release those reins and you might wanna get a better position i'm 13 and i have a wayyyy better position than you. that last jump is way too big for the line your doing. it's a good workout but you made it too harcore on your horse. i usually don't critique like this but when i saw this i just had to. so remember what i told u kk?

  • yeh i watched your videos and neither one of you ( mary or emma) is better than this lady and her crest release is fine for the height, and that height is not to big for that exercise at all! It could be way bigger and that horse would be fine! The point of gymnastics is to strengthen your horses hind end so its not suppose to be really easy.

  • hey emmamarything, why so harsh? I'm not trying to be rude or anything but I doubt you have a better position since your 13. But, everyone has something they need to work on. stop bringing people down

  • Umm.. I had to check your videos out to see if you were actually good, and you couldn't even get the right number of strides down a two foot line, you were constantly ahead of the motion, and you werent wearing a helmet. someone needs an ego check hun

  • In the horse world everyone is going to have something to say and your not always gonna like it. But being rude to everyone you think does the tiniest thing wrong is not going to get u anywhere in life and if you think u are so much better than that lady then why can u count strides in your head and the horse shouldnt do the striding you should tell them to lengthen or shorten their stride. ur release well....... SUCKS. u Are WAY to forward a Think before u say miss Emma LOTS of love ANNA

  • I've seen your videos. You do not have a better position then this rider. You lean forward too much and you are all over the place with your reins. The last jump was fine. Haven't you ever seen a gymnastic line lead up to an oxer before? Many people do bounces leading up to jumps way higher then that. I've seen people who use bounces to get to a jump that is 4 feet and higher. If the horse can do it, it's fine. It also teaches the rider a better position. so remember what I told you kk?

  • get a better position! my position is better than that and im only 14!!

  • you actually have an ok position, but her horse is obviously hot and she is rather solid. So to everyone telling her to get better eq and crap just shut it, hers is fine, it might not win the maclay but its solid.

  • your position is actually no where near better than this lady's. get over yourself.

  • I just did this exercise the other day. Its so helpful

  • i have a 14 hand pony and i dont know how to space the jumps?

  • no the horse is pretty god but the last jump is wayyy too big