Getting Popped out of Tack Over Oxers

[IPEsq]

@supershorty628

Do a crest release and think to push your knuckles into the neck - not putting your weight behind it, but you should be able to feel the neck with your knuckles. And continue to feel it until the horse has landed. It’s a little easier to get the feel for it if you grab some mane; it’ll keep your hands there anyway.

This. What you can’t do if you do this is open your hip angle. It also makes you engage some core muscles because you are thinking about pushing. This is what you need to stay over longer. Grabbing mane helps you keep your hands physically connected to the neck while you work on the overall feeling. Focusing some on the hands also keeps you from focusing on being forward with the body. That just comes secondary to the attempt to push into the neck. Because if you just think bend over, you might throw your body too much and then wind up getting popped back even earlier and more severely.

You are probably having a harder time over oxers because the jump has a bigger arc. So if you tend to pop up a little bit over a vertical, it will become a bigger problem over an oxer. Stay over well after completion of the jump then sink back into your seat.

Low gymnastics without hands will also help. Low enough that you don’t get jumped loose. Learn to duplicate the same upper body motion and feeling with the crest release and with your hands on your hips for example.

[MyssMyst]

@IPEsq

This. What you can’t do if you do this is open your hip angle. It also makes you engage some core muscles because you are thinking about pushing. This is what you need to stay over longer. Grabbing mane helps you keep your hands physically connected to the neck while you work on the overall feeling. Focusing some on the hands also keeps you from focusing on being forward with the body. That just comes secondary to the attempt to push into the neck. Because if you just think bend over, you might throw your body too much and then wind up getting popped back even earlier and more severely.

You are probably having a harder time over oxers because the jump has a bigger arc. So if you tend to pop up a little bit over a vertical, it will become a bigger problem over an oxer. Stay over well after completion of the jump then sink back into your seat.

Low gymnastics without hands will also help. Low enough that you don’t get jumped loose. Learn to duplicate the same upper body motion and feeling with the crest release and with your hands on your hips for example.

This is exactly the info I needed, thank you!

[Jenerationx]

@supershorty628 wow! That’s an incredible picture… and I remember feeling that from time to time too, very scary. The look on the mare’s face is awesome. She looks like she’s just gonna go on about her job, with or without you. lol.