My sister just went to her first training day today and has come back beaming.
I thought it was great. She's never done cross country before so it really is the perfect way to introduce her to the problems of cross country (up/down hill, angles, narrows, corners) without having the scarier factor of solid fences.
Plus it really tests your control having to come back to jump poles after galloping over long stretches of grass.
Would definatly reccomend training...going to first competition in a few weeks so we shall see how that goes.