I am moving into jumpers and need help remembering jumper courses since all I have ever done are simple hunter courses. I am always worried I will forget and don't really have that many jumps to practice on (I have 4 jumps, one line of a huge 3 or tight 4, a single diagonal, a single located on the out side of the ring.)

Just give the jumps names and repeat the names in order of the course when you are in the ring:) Like this "Purple pony to red rollback to wounded warrior to blue box to..." Etc:)

Oh jeez. I always had issues remembering courses.

^^ What jello said is extremely helpful too.

Jellos Warmbloods said:
Oh jeez. I always had issues remembering courses.

Walk them.

Walk walk walk.

I always used the whole course walk allotted time to walk it over and over and over until i just KNEW it.

Before entering the ring, i would go over the course with my trainer a few more times.

All the jumps have numbers as well. When going over your current jump you should be locked onto your next.

Needless to say, there have been a few times ive forgotten my course. It happens.

If this does happen, listen closely to your trainer or crowd. Someone will yell out your next jump for you.

The bad thing is I can't walk my courses but they do have a board where they have all the courses for the classes

Center hill said:

Jellos Warmbloods said:
Oh jeez. I always had issues remembering courses.

Walk them.

Walk walk walk.

I always used the whole course walk allotted time to walk it over and over and over until i just KNEW it.

Before entering the ring, i would go over the course with my trainer a few more times.

All the jumps have numbers as well. When going over your current jump you should be locked onto your next.

Needless to say, there have been a few times ive forgotten my course. It happens.

If this does happen, listen closely to your trainer or crowd. Someone will yell out your next jump for you.

The bad thing is I can't walk my courses but they do have a board where they have all the courses for the classes

You can still walk them. Use sticks as jumps and set up an identical course on foot. Then walk it:)

Trillium I never thought of that! Thanks! I do the same with dressage at home. I set up a ring with letters and run it like a horse on foot haha!

Trillium I never thought of that! Thanks! I do the same with dressage at home. I set up a ring with letters and run it like a horse on foot haha!

repetition has always helped me, I have never shown but iv done courses, just go over it in your head until you can remember it by heart, what trillium said may also help

You can still walk them. Use sticks as jumps and set up an identical course on foot. Then walk it:)

One thing that helps me is to set up a mantra in my head, like what Trillum said to begin with. Teach yourself the mantra and go over it while you walk the course. Like, 'to 1, to 2' or something, You can even include directions, like, 'to 1, left to 2, straight to 3, round the right to 4' etc.