Schooling help

[stevielee]

Well my new loan horse is doing really well. She has been schooled on the falt and i am now getting her into jumping. She is an ex-hunter so all her striding(sp) is wrong and she charges at the jumps. I've been schooling her for a few weeks. We are still at the trotting pole stage. Any tips on making her trot them and not jump them :p She is doing really well really lol.
Before any one asks there is a very very experienced person helping me :)
I popped her over a few tiny jumps today and she cleared them by miles. :D
Just wondering if anyone has any tips to help me and give me advise on anything i can do with her to improve her?
She is perfect on the flat and will do anything you ask of her. Weve just had a brilliant ride and I'm soo pleased with her
:D :D <--- Me

[kedwards]

We are still at the trotting pole stage. Any tips on making her trot them and not jump them

How do you set them up and what does she do?

[Perfect Pony]

glad to hear your doing well, i have the same prob with trotting poles and jumping them, shadow considers anything that is raised off the floor a jump!!! Even kirbs!!!
Bless him, so what i did was set out the poles on the floor, close together, i usually use 4, will see if i can draw a pic of what i do as twill be easier!!!!
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ok so pait isnt working lets seee...... this should be interesting......

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ok so the 0= blocks and the ----= a pole
so the end of eveyother is raised, make the distance 4 lil feet paces so that horsey cannot jump it, like this...... heres another dodgy pic.....
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so that the end of the foot touches the other!!!
try this and see if it works!!!
Sorry about the strange pics!!!

:D

[stevielee]

Thankyou. Shadow Dancer I shall try that tommorow. :D .
Kedwards, I put them in the centre of the school 4 and a half feet and a half feet apart (I'm size 5). Do you think i should make them wider or narrower?

[Styric]

I actually tried that out myself awhile ago as I tend to get the same problem. He considers anything raised above the ground as a jump.

Anyways, he figured out they were too close, so he jumped the lot in one bound....... :rolleyes:

[kedwards]

How many do you set? You want to avoid setting up just 2 trot-poles, since it looks too much to a horse like you are asking for a jump. Start with one until he's going over it as though it isn't even there, then go right to 3 or 4.

While you can alter with the distance between them, it's difficult to know how to adjust them until he is at least trying to trot over them.