Do you have a small area or not too many jumps? Today I'm gonna show you some
jumping exercises you can do in a cramped arena or area with few jumps. So,
let's get started. Hi there my name is Laura welcome to another video if it's
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ways you can set up jumps in a cramped area or small area or if you got a
bigger area you can do that too a lot of people they are kind of pressed for
space when they're out riding and training so I thought I'd show you some
of the ideas I had about how to use your space better and if you have fewer jumps
then you can use these exercises as well so let's get started on that first
exercise is three jumps in a row sounds pretty boring but you know you can make
it it's easy or it's difficult as you like you can set them up as bounces one
two three bounces in row go jump one jump when take off for the next jump
land take off for the next jump distance is between a bounce stride depending on
the size of the horse and what you want to get accomplished between eight and
twelve feet eight feet if you're riding a small horse or pony if you want to
make that more difficult put those three jumps in a row but put
them at angles so that you are instead of jumping the jump at a 90-degree angle
you are jumping the jaw a little bit of an angle like this will come in handy if
you are going into competitions where you may have to jump jumps at an angle
for example and it jump off or if you're even ting don't want to get anytime fall
those are the areas where you need to practice jumping jumps at an angle three
jumps in a row you can also set them up so rather than
having bounce strides you can have two or three strides in between each jump so
jump once tried to stride jump once try to straight jump and same exercise
rather than bouncing you can have them one or two strides apart do you want
them one stride apart that's between 21 and 24 feet want them two strides apart
that's between 33 and 36 feet apart now remember these are approximate distances
and it depends on your horse what you're doing type of ground you're riding on
the type of jumps that you're jumping cuz verticals vs. officers a little
different so those are just kind of rule of thumb type distances you're not sure
your distances check it out if either link below where you can find out what
the distances should be three jumps in a row you can have them as bounces and had
the new one stride or two strides you can have the minute straight line so
you're going from one to the other to the other or you can have the minute
curved or bending line if you're looking for more exercises that you can do with
your horse take a look at these videos here there are some excellent videos
that you can watch course after you finish watching this one jumping on
curved a bending lines really tests your technical ability to write a curve or
corner also helps the horse to bend and keep himself balanced as well what is
your favorite exercise for jumping put it in the comments below I'd love to
hear about it another good way if you're tight for space to put your jumps up is
on a circle so I'm gonna say that most people have an area that's about a 20
meter by 40 meter area your standard dressage ring size so put a jump at
letter C and a 20 meter circle so that's a KH just before hc' just before and
just after em and put through jumps on a 20 meter circle jump your jumps on your
surface a great way for you to develop your horse to make sure that he can jump
jumps on a circle excellent exercise if you're going in the jumper ring to make
sure that you can jump and turn and excellent if you're going into the
hunter ring for those bending lines and also if you're doing the hunter handy
hunter courses that's a great way to set up your jumps as if you were riding a
little course so but one on the straight line one on a diagonal and the other
down the long side so you can make these as easy or as difficult as you like you
can do practice your rollback turns through this exercise or stretch it out
and make it like a hunter course so many options for you don't be afraid to try a
different thing make sure you're safe and keep on track and keep an eye out
for the type of footing you're on if it's hilly and grassy and slippery be
careful make sure that you are riding in appropriate fashion for the footing that
you're on and the level of riding that you're riding sometimes you can just put
the rather than making jumps put poles on the ground and just practice your
pattern sophix 9 foot rails straight line 9 foot rails
then just put the poles on the ground and right over your poles or put the
poles on a W shape 90 degrees to each other and practice your pattern
practicing with poles on the ground first is just as good a technical way
for you as the rider and trainer to get in tune with your horse and understand
what you need to do to get the horse around those jumps can't do it with just
poles on the ground don't move to your jumps
keep the jumps low practice practice these patterns with low jumps before you
put them up to higher job my name is Laura and if you'd like to
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