look what i jumped today!

[only_me]

so as i have no events till the 6th, i thought i would work on our accuracy and jumping skinnys, in preparation for novice eventing

actually we have no problem usually as there are flags on, but i thought it would be good to work on it

plus merlin and i get bored after lots of flatwork

so we thought we would do something different

this is a row of 3 single barrels, 1 stride inbetween each, up the centre line of the arena. i also had 2 barrels together to warm up over, and a single barrel to practice before doing the line

have to say it was much more difficult than i thought - the barrels are about 2 foot wide (if that

) but after a few goes we got it right and merlin jumped them straight

tommorrow we are going to try 4 barrels in a line with 1 stride in between...

sorry for self indulgent post - i just thought it was very difficult for us as we have only done PN

 

[KatB]

Well done

I do this at home with G horse, set up a serpentine of barrels randomly in the arena which gets us practising turning in mid air, and also gets Goddy landing and waiting to be told where to go next

Try 2 barrels stood up next to each other touching as a bigger skinny

 

[only_me]

i think tommorrow we may do turns with the skinnys on a circle/serpentine, and bigger skinnies at the end of the week

anything apart from boring flatwork

anyother ideas for practicing accuracy?

 

[KatB]

Hmm, not really, corners on a curve work well

Or corner, then skinny, then corner on a kinda 15m loop

 

[prudunce]

well if you can jump these,then you are very good at skinnies,well done. Things like this are good for horse&rider, forget about jumping things that are bog-standard with just-so striding all the time,this will teach horse to be careful and jump anything,grt idea&good fun for you&the horse,well done ux

 

[only_me]

thanks!

he had fun once he realised what he was meant to be doing

shall have to think of more ways to use the barrels - all the proper jumps are in the field which looks like a lake