Jumping exercises with a single jump

[flat3]

Hi everyone

I'm looking for ideas for simple jumping exercises for a novice rider (~70cm) who only has 1 pair of wings and 4 poles available. No more wings or poles can be used.

Horse enjoys jumping so likely to just keep rushing at jump if it's set up all by itself in the school!

Specifically exercises that involve leaving the ground please, I know there are lots of related flatwork exercises but we're pretty good on the flat and I have a list of these already

 

[Wheels]

Oh there's so many things you can do!

A few off the top of my head...

Set up a simple upright in the centre of the arena along the centre line, you can jump off both reins on a circle of 20m, 15m and even 10m - count your strides on each circle, are they the same on the right rein and the left?

Leave the upright where it is (quite low) and use your other 3 poles at the 3 other points of the circle, canter over the middle of each pole, does each quarter circle have the same amount of strides? Same each rein? Come more to the inside of the poles, go more to the outside etc

Leave the upright where it is, circle 20m left, over the upright then circle 20m right - can you select the correct lead over the fence every time?

Turn the upright so it's lying across the centre line - you can now do a long elongated fig 8

High sided cross pole with placing poles either side (approx 2.5 to 3m away depending on your horses stride), come in at a trot and it should help your horses bascule

Move the placing pole on the far side to approx 6-7m away - can you canter in but come back to the trot before you get to the pole after the jump? (This is only 1 canter stride away, if you can't then move it another few metres and try again then bring it closer again)

Just a few to get you started

 

[Ambers Echo]

Thanks Wheels! I'll use these too.

 

[Wheels]

Also OP - challenge yourself and jump 75cm or even 80 from time to time

 

[Red-1]

Plenty to play with using 4 poles and 2 wings. Great ideas from wheels.

I also use a grid, with the ends being the 2 poles on the floor, and the 2 middle poles as raised bounce fences. So, you have a canter pole, bounce to a sloping pole for a jump, another bounce to the other pole sloped the other way, another bounce to the canter pole out.

I would also use a small jump and play with having the other poles mark a corridor to make me do a straight entry and/or exit.

With 4 poles you can also have a place pole to an upright, with V poles resting on the upright to encourage the horse to round.

You can do an S shape, so over a canter pole, half circle to the jump, half circle to the canter pole. You can progress that to decide which leg you would like to land on, only deciding once straight.

You can have a canter pole to a jump at 4 strides distance, then make it in 5 strides or 3 at will.

It can be interesting to have a small jump on the 3/4 line (so near B or E), and a corridor set up after a few strides at 90 degrees, so inside the inner track near A or C, so the horse has to land, balance, accurately turn and be straight to get through the corridor.

 

[Wheels]

Great ideas from Red

 

[flat3]

These are so great, thank you!!