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[showjump2003]

Sorry to sound dim. Going to pop some jumps up in the field tonight and wondered what striding I put out for a double. My horse is 15.2hh? I normally only jump single fenses!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

The height of your horse doesn't matter....a normal horse stride is 12 feet or 3.65 meres. OK

Oh, & don't forget to allow 6 feet or 1.80 metres for take of & landing.

 

[joey1999]

I usually put 24 feet between the two fences then my two big boys (16hh and 17hh) can get one stride in and my pony (14.1hh) puts two strides in!

 

[arkov]

wot height r u gonna jump...?

 

[Emma123]

For a one strided double 8 of your normal walking strides

For a two strided 12

Adjust after you've jumped it once if neccessary but that is standard in a competition

 

[arkov]

wot if she has short little legs...?

 

[dieseldog]

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wot if she has short little legs...?

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Her horse is going to have to take shorter strides!

 

[MagicMelon]

It does matter what height the horse is (ie. generally if pony or horse). Pony strides obviously being shorter.

Usual BSJA courses, for example in a usual double, are 8 of my strides (just normal walking strides). You allow 2 of your strides for landing, 2 for take off always. 1 horse stride is 4 of your strides. So for 2 fences with 2 horse strides in between, it would be 12 of your strides. Does that make sense?!

Of course, if you want to work on something in particular like shortening or lengthening striding, then I usually do this with 4 or 5 strides in between the fences and make the distance shorter or longer depending on which Im working on.

 

[arkov]

my point was, this; why talk about strides wen everyones stride is different but a foot is the same on every tape measure...!
2 x 12ft poles give you 24ft if that helps... you just need to know how long your poles are...!

imho !