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As with all our premium Courses, this is a well supported program - to make sure you keep making progress and don't get stuck. 

Ask Wendy questions at the Live Q&A - if you can't make it, you can send your questions ahead and watch the replay.  And you can ask questions in the Course portal under all the lessons.

40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes Book by Wendy Murdoch

Better balance in the saddle, improved body control from head to toe, and increased influence with your seat are just a handful of the simple fixes offered in this straightforward training manual for jumping. Most of the fixes require only a few minutes to learn and offer solutions for making jumping more enjoyable for riders and their horses.

By starting and ending a ride with these simple, easy and effective fixes, you can replace old habits with new ones and get out of a riding rut!

This book illustrates and adds to the exercises you will see here in the course. We will ship your bonus copy of Wendy's book to you, no extra charge! 

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Your Course Includes

• 6 Core Modules, Released Over 6 Weeks
• 1 Video Coaching Session with Wendy Murdoch
• 1 Live Q&A Coaching Call with Wendy Murdoch
• ​Lifetime Access to the entire Course
• Full 30 Day Money Back Guarantee

 
Your Bonuses Include

• Course Critiques by Wendy Murdoch
• Wendy's 40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes Book
• Access to Private CRK Course Members Facebook Community

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Live Q&A + Recording

Join in on the Live Q&A or submit your questions and watch the recording later. 

All of your questions will be addressed, and one of Wendy's strengths as an instructor is her ability to identify where position and movement patterns could be improved to achieve correct biomechanics - often with one of her popular 5-Minute Fixes!

Whether you have questions on theory, or encountering a specific challenge, get Wendy's personal feedback during this Live Session. 

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Riding a leaping horse is a feeling out of a dream. Art, history, and legend have romanticized and honored the jumping horse and its rider.

The moment the horse leaves the ground, even for those few split seconds, is like flying. 

No matter how valuable all the groundwork and flatwork exercises we practice, and how graceful it feels to flow through the movements of dressage, there is perhaps nothing as exhilarating as riding a jump. 

Whether that jump is coming out of a hunter course line, the final fence of the jump off, a small crossrail in your home arena, or even just a log out on the trail, jumping should be fun, perhaps the ultimate feeling of connection with your horse.

But when the rider is not in sync with the horse jumping can be scary. Leaving the ground when you don’t feel balanced is not exhilarating, it can be terrifying, and unfortunately for many riders this has been their experience. 

​A lack of foundational skills means the rider has to compensate by holding on, gripping, leaning at the fence, always feeling unstable, not with the horse, sometimes getting ahead, and sometimes left behind.

Instead of enjoying the jump, they feel fear, or the frustration of not being able to move up, or of knowing they are unbalancing their horse but not knowing how to fix it.

In order to jump well, the horse needs to round over the fence, lifting their wither and reaching forward with their neck.

Poor jumping position makes it impossible for the horse to jump effectively, potentially causing refusals, runouts, or rushing as the horse tries to avoid the discomfort that the rider is accidentally creating over the jump.

When the rider is not able to move well, the horse cannot jump well, and the two factors mean that horse and rider become more and more disconnected.

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The Way Jumping is Taught has Changed

It no longer instills the proper foundation of riding skill necessary for confidence in horse and rider. We can see this in the style of jumping that is so common with many of today’s riders. 

The rider has to hold on over the fence, squeezing with their legs, gripping the mane, and instead of the horse pushing the rider out of the saddle, the rider heaves forward to the fence, making the takeoff difficult for the horse. 

Visit most local schooling shows and you are likely to see more riders struggling than succeeding. Horses stopping, running out, or jumping hollow, and the riders looking intimidated and worried. 

Jumping form has changed to a position that is more style than effective riding. Lack of preparation due to an eagerness to just get out into the show ring has left riders struggling, without the foundation of skills they need to succeed.

Today’s common picture is of the jump rider that is perched on the neck of the horse, gripping with their calves, heels pushed low, and back hollowed, throwing their weight forward onto hands perched on the horse’s neck... a far departure from the riders of past generations, and the riders still at the top today, displaying balanced weight, a flat back, and giving hands.

Jumping position has changed, from the functional position seen here in the second image of a rider with a flat back and following hand, allowing the back of the horse to come up over the fence, and remaining perfectly balanced from takeoff to landing.
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Contrast this with the rider on the left, who has ducked forward, putting all their weight on the horse’s neck, tightened their leg, and thrown their horse out of balance.

Many riders feel stuck at the same level of jumping when they would love to progress on, but they continue to struggle as the height or technicality of the jumps or courses increases. 

But it doesn’t have to be this way...

With the right foundation of exercises you can find a solid jump position that allows you to move with the horse, with the horse’s push from the ground into the jump effortlessly folding you into position, hands following the reins and the horse’s mouth into an effortless automatic release.

You can learn how to ride in a way that you can stay balanced and stable, even if your horse trips or stumbles in a line or takes off from a bad spot.

The difference between the riders of the past and today’s riders is in early training. Many riders today are taught jumping with more focus on getting over the obstacle than finding a solid position to stay safe. 

The art of using progressive grids and exercises to build a solid foundation and the correct following movement over the jump has been all but lost. 

Only a few trainers, and riders, learn to build up the jumping sequences in an order so that bad habits never develop and a safe, effective position is developed right from the start. 

I would like to invite you to join me in the Effortless Jumping Course with Wendy Murdoch.

Work with an international clinician who teaches jumping as it used to be taught – developing balance in the rider right from the start. 

In this new course with Wendy, you will learn the biomechanics of jumping for the horse and the rider’s position. 

In this program, Wendy breaks down the process of learning jumping, beginning on the ground and progressing to specific exercises riding on the flat, over poles, grids, and carefully designed courses to build each movement, skill, and feeling that you need to jump effectively and safely. 

This careful progression of exercises is important, because when bad habits do develop in jumping, they are very difficult to correct. 

The moment of the jump happens so quickly that our old patterns and habits, correct or not, will take over as soon as we get to the jump. This is why you may know you need to sit back more, but you still lean forward at every jump. 

It can be so frustrating to try and change your jumping position, because every time you get to the jump, the old habit is right there, taking over again.

???What is required to improve your jumping position is to practice the key phases of movement within the jump – the takeoff, flight, and landing.  In the Effortless Rider Jumping Course, Wendy will give you specific exercises for learning and feeling the position, movement, and habits required for each phase of the jump that will make you a safe and effective jump rider.???

​Here is what you will learn in each part of this program...

Lesson 1  The Biomechanics of Jumping

In Lesson 1, discover the Biomechanics of Jumping. 
What do both horse and rider need to do in order to jump effectively whether the distance is long or short and regardless of the height of the jump?

✳︎ The Best Form for Horse and Rider to Jump​​

✳︎ Learn why “getting into” two point position for the jump is one of the worst habits riders learn for jumping​
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✳︎ ​How your saddle affects your jumping position

Lesson 2  Find Your Jump Position 

In Lesson 2, Find Your Jump Position with unmounted exercises to feel each part of good movement over the jump. 

✳︎ Why the rider’s hips are so important for jumping

✳︎ How to learn the feeling of an automatic release, right from the start
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✳︎ ​Finding a following hand, all through the jump course

Lesson 3  Stabilize Your Position

​In Lesson 3, Stabilize Your Position through specific exercises to practice in the saddle, I bet you will have never practiced two point in this way! 

✳︎ Feel the “right” angle for your upper body – forward, but not leaning!

✳︎ Find how to have your weight on your thigh, instead of on the horse’s neck

✳︎ ​Practice all the phases of the jump – take off, flight, and landing, from the ease of standing still to find the best position

Lesson 4  Effective Aids

???In Lesson 4, discover how to give effective aids around the course to make the many adjustments required to achieve desired speed, rhythm and accuracy.

✳︎ Develop effective aids required to master the course ​???

✳︎ How to slow down a rushing horse

✳︎ ​Adjusting your canter stride

Lesson 5  Work Over Poles

In Lesson 5, we begin Work Over Poles, using the poles, with specific exercises and using all three gaits, to develop different parts of your position. These combinations of poles will get built into jumps and grids very soon! 
Here are just some of the exercises you will be practicing:
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✳︎ Hand on Your Back 
✳︎ Hand on Your Head
✳︎ Wave Behind You
✳︎ Push on the Wall (show from ground too)
✳︎ ​Arms to Side Over Poles
✳︎ Ballet Arm Movements (on the ground and on the horse)
✳︎ Push on Two Walls
✳︎ Rotate Your Upper Body
✳︎ ​Two Hands Forward

Lesson 6  Develop Your Following Hand

​In Lesson 6, you will Develop Your Following Hand, learning why a following hand and automatic release are so important and then working along in exercises on and off the horse to feel how effortless the release can be.

​✳︎ The purpose of each type of release, including the real way to do a crest release (it’s probably different than what you have been taught)

✳︎ ​How to practice the skills you need for automatic release, right from the start!

Lesson 7  More Advanced Grids and Patterns
OR Finetuning Your Skills
OR Bringing It All Together

​In Lesson 7, we start building more grids as well as patterns to combine all the skills you have learned learned so far!

✳︎ How to measure distances for poles and grids

✳︎ Patterns to practice your turns for course work
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✳︎ ​​Always setting you and your horse up for success through the grids

How Does the Course Work?

Go at Your Own Pace

When you join the Effortless Rider Jumping Course, you’re in for life. There is no expiration date, and your access to the videos will never go away. Plus you can join in future rounds to deepen your jumping skills.

Get Your Questions Answered

???As with all our premium Courses, this is a well supported program - to make sure you keep making progress and don't get stuck. 

Ask Wendy questions at the Live Q&A - if you can't make it, you can send your questions ahead and watch the replay.  And you can ask questions in the Course portal under all the lessons.???

Join our Private Course Community

Get access to our Private CRK Training Course Members Facebook Community, where you can communicate with and ask questions of like-minded riders.

Join in on private online events, such as our monthly Wine Nights and Community Assignments!

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Additional Skills Section

40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes Book by Wendy Murdoch

Better balance in the saddle, improved body control from head to toe, and increased influence with your seat are just a handful of the simple fixes offered in this straightforward training manual for jumping. Most of the suggestions provided within require only a few minutes to learn and offer solutions for making jumping more enjoyable for both riders and their horses.

By starting and ending each ride with these simple, easy, and effective fixes, equestrians will happily and efficiently replace old habits with new ones and get out of their riding rut.

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Retrain Your Seat and Ditch “Bad” Habits
If your goal is to develop the balance and skill to ride a specific gait, such as sitting trot or rising trot, or to finally get that feeling of being with the horse, the Balanced Riding Course will help you with specific exercises to practice.

Feel Confident and Secure Riding the Canter
The canter can be one of the most challenging gaits to ride. It has bigger movement and it’s faster! In the Balanced Riding Course, we will go back to your foundation to build the skills you need to canter confidently.

​Take Your Young or Green Horse to the Next Level in Their Training 
Not sure what’s next for your young or inexperienced horse? Create a plan for each step of their training. 

Work Through a Problem
Feeling stuck on a problem you just have not been able to work through with your horse, the horse behavior lessons and problem solving examples in this course will get you to the root of the problem and help you teach your horse a solution. 

Start Off Right with a New Horse and Build Confidence (Your + Your Horse's)
Get simple exercises to practice and clear principles to build a relationship and bond with your new horse right from the start.

​In Case You're Wondering...

​What if I don’t have THE time right now?

​I get it, life is busy! When you join the Effortless Rider Jumping Course, you are a member for life. You can go through the Course now or later, as often as you want and at your own pace!  You can also participate fully with each live round of the Course and work on new goals.

Do I Need to HAve my own horse?

Nope! Many current members don't own or lease a horse, they ride friend's horses or ride at a local lesson barn. The Balanced Riding Course is perfect for riders who are just starting out, and this year, I've included the mini-course How to Get the Most Our of Your Riding Lessons to provide specific help for riders just like you. 

​Will the course be offered again?

Yes, the Effortless Rider Jumping Course is usually offered twice a year. However, if you join now, you can participate fully every time the course runs. The earlier you join, the more value you get! 

When does the course start?

As soon as you join, you have access to all the Bonuses, and a special section called "Pre-Course Material". 
You can also download your Workbook right away and see where your Effortless Jumping learning path will take you.  Lessons are released weekly, and the live Course will run for 5 weeks, but you will have continued access to all of the content to revisit as often as you like, from wherever you want.

Do I need to have jumping experience?

This Course is designed to be as valuable to a complete novice looking to have some fun over poles or an advanced rider looking to be competitive in the showjump ring.  The jumping position exercises and lessons will lay the correct foundations for Effortless Jumping, foundations that are often lacking in jump training and are the 'groundwork' for achieving stability over a jump for the comfort of both rider and horse.

What if my internet is super slow?

While most of the Course content is delivered over the internet, the videos are downloadable and can be customized for playback in slow internet areas. If you do join and find that you can't participate in the Course as you hoped, we offer a 60 Day Full Money Back Guarantee. 

What if I fall Behind?

When you join the Effortless Rider Jumping Course, you have lifetime access, so you can go through at your own pace, and retake the Course as many times as you wish!

I already have a great instructor... can I still BENEFIT FROM this course?

Absolutely! Throughout the Effortless Rider Jumping Course you will get exercises to practice at home, as well as during your riding time. Go into each lesson prepared so you can get even more out of the time with your local instructor! 

Here's how one of our current students in the Balanced Riding Course, Penny, describes taking a Course and working with her local instructor:

"Some may wonder why I take your courses when I ride 3 days a week with a wonderful trainer. The Answer: I can sit quietly, focus, absorb and digest your lessons, visualize myself taking the correct steps or procedures, and hit "rewind" as many times as I need (which is impossible in the arena LOL)! The Payoff: I can see a marked improvement in my skills since taking your courses! Thank you for allowing us to tap into your wealth of equine knowledge, for the time and commitment to produce quality work, for your passion to educate yourself further and your willingness to pass that information on to us!"
~ Penny Wilson

30 Day Full Money Back Guarantee

As with all of our CRK Training programs, I want you to be completely confident and comfortable joining The Effortless Rider Jumping Course.

​If you are not satisfied with this Course for any reason, return it for a full refund within 30 days of joining.
 
We would love to have you join us!

Your Instructor Wendy Murdoch

International instructor and clinician Wendy Murdoch has been teaching riding for over 30 years, traveling the world to work with thousands of horses and riders from every discipline.

What makes Wendy unique in her style of teaching is the combination of her background in science along with her broad education, and her own personal experiences.

In her 20s Wendy had a severe riding accident that changed her life forever. In a wheelchair and released from the hospital with no physical therapy, Wendy was determined to return to riding... but because of her injuries she struggled with traditional riding instruction. 

Wendy began learning about how our bodies move and function well, and how we can return to comfortable movement and effective riding even after accidents, long breaks from riding, or even years of ineffective practice.

Through achieving her certification as a Feldenkrais practitioner and working with pioneers in the art of riding and horsemanship, such as Sally Swift from Centered Riding, Linda Tellington Jones, and Dr. Hillary Clayton, Wendy developed a unique style of riding instruction. She explains in simple language the often complicated skills of riding and helps her students feel exactly what they need to change in order to ride better and become effortless.

She gives her students an education in anatomy and bio-mechanics, unmounted exercises that can be practiced anywhere, and a collection of simple riding "fixes" - easy techniques that help a rider feel and remember a new movement and then take it out to their horse. 

In the years Wendy has been traveling and teaching, and now with this online Course, she leaves an impression with her students, whether they ride western, dressage, jumpers, endurance, or gaited horses - riders who are serious competitors or just in it for fun. ​

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• Extra Skills Section
• Wendy's 40 5-Minute Jumping Fixes Book
• From X to Y Case Spotlight/Case Study
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