Exercises to improve the horses jump

[Neptune]

What are good jumping exercises to help improve your horses jumping technique? Obviously grid work is always one, are there any particular combinations which will work better than others? What about any other exercises or is it just practice, practice, practice till the horse understands how to take off correctly?

Thanks

 

[be positive]

There are many different exercises you can use within gridwork to help with specific issues or just improve the horse generally.

If the horse does not understand how to take off correctly rather than being a bit careless or untidy then I would go back to the very basics, after checking there is not a physical reason causing problems, polework in trot and canter ensuring they are really focused on the job, then introduce a x pole at the end and start gradually building up the grids from there.

Getting a decent trainer would be the best way forward as it can be tricky to do this alone, getting off to tweak the poles is boring and means people often get lazy and just leave them, a few inches shorter or longer can make a huge amount of difference to how the horse goes through a grid and eyes on the ground are invaluable in situations where the horse is not improving as much as it should.

 

[Goldenstar]

Where to start .
One thing that always improves a every horses jump is improving the canter .
One exercise for this is to put two poles down the long side of the school canter between them and count the strides settle into your best jumping canter and count then practise do one more and one less stride.
In time you should be able adjust more than one stride .
Canter around a circle with four poles round it equally and being able to meet each one smoothly and easily is a good one two .