striding between jumps.

[happyhorse]

hi,

can anyone give me some good guidlines to work on, i know different horses have different strides but whats the basis to work on.

trotting poles -
double -
bounce -

AND any others you can think of that would help me when practising at home on my own.

[happyhorse]

surley someone out there can help me?

[Very new]

I am a novice so someone may want to correct me but I went to a lecture with my daugter on show jumping and course design and was told a canter stride was 12 feet for a horse and about 10 feet 6 inches for a pony - these were just averages used in the design and obviously every horse is different.

My daughter does an exercise with her pony ( and she is a very good rider) where she puts down poles a long way apart and canters over them counting the strides then aims to do one more stride the next time round and carries on to see how many she can get. She then does it the other way and reduces by one and sees how few she can get.

[Very new]

Sorry I forgot to say she does this so that she can make sure she gets the right sort of canter for the different jumps and can work out the strides - she competes in One Day Events so does cross country and show jumping. I f you wnat some more ideas PM me and I will ask her to let you know what works for her.

[happyhorse]

Thanks will do.

[Cochise]

hi, i think I can help you

trotting poles should be basically

pony: 1.2metres or 4' apart

horse: 1.37metres or 4'6" apart

trotting poles then a jump after them....the distance from the last trotting pole to the jump is

pony: 2.4m or 8'

horse: 2.7m or 9'

a bounce for ponies is 3m or 10' and for horses is 3.3m or 11'.
one stride is for ponies...6.4m or 21' for horses is 7.3m or 24'/
two strides is ponies- 9.4m or 31' and horses is 10.3 m or 34'.

Hope that helps! ps the striding above for the bounce, one and two strides is for canter

[cvb]

.. if you start with

one stride = 6 then add 4 for every extra stride.

I think I learnt this when it was still yards rather than metres, but its not too far out. Then you really want to know what it is in your strides and for your pony. i.e. are they short or long striding, big or small vs the standard.

On another thread someone suggested finding a newly raked piece of school and trotting (for trotting poles) or cantering down it. Of course the one stride distance needs to be larger than the length of one stride to allow for landing and take off.

Or look in the various rule books and see what they allow, as this is what you will meet in competition.

[happyhorse]

thanks will bear it in mind, ev is 16.2 but he does have short strides. i found some info on the internet to that is quite useful. will post it on here later incase anyone else needs to know.

[maverick927]

all i know is that my pony is a 13.3hh with an 8 foot stride and no matter want i do he will not shorten or lengthen it. My instructor says that his stride is to long for a pony, but i don't mind as it is really comfortable.

[smarty]

'Very New'- Yes its a good exercise. Have a four strided related distance. To teach my horse to shorten and lengthen I put in an extra or one less stride. It is a really useful exercise and teaches the horse to be obedient.

[smarty]

On my 15.2 for a one strided double, tow of my strides are used for the landing, then four more for the one stride, then two more to allow take off= 8 of my strides

[FreedomStar]

A good exercise for figuring out strides is something called 'gymnastics.' It's where four jumps are spaced out, with 1 stride in between each jump, and you canter through the line. Start out with poles, then work your way up to jumps.