bounces

[booboo]

hia me and my friend are thinking of doing some bounces with her horse . he is 15.3 and quite heavy built. We usually do about 3ft jumping with him but this is just one jump we do 2ft6 courses at shows. i have been told before that doing bounces helps with jumping has the horse has to think what he is doing straight after the jump. i have done bounces before but not on this horse and he has never done them before. he had never jumped till about a year ago. we were just wondering how far away do you put the bounces away from each other and what height do you think we should put them about as we do not want to overface him. il post a pic so you can get an idea of his size and build. please excuse me i was been stupid lol :p

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y154/del_newton/scan0018.jpg

thanks for reading booboo xxx

[jUmPingIsLifE]

i would start off with cross rails and 9-10feet apart

[Styric]

Definetly start small. Though I had more problems with oxers than bounces. He thought the oxer was a bounce and blamed ME when he bowled it all over.