Making a horse brave jumping

[MummyEms]

So I backed my horse last year and he's absolutely wonderful to ride. He's an Arab cross Welsh and very flashy looking.
I hack a lot either alone or with my children. He's fantastic in traffic.
I did a bit of xc schooling and some unaffiliated show jumping, with some success but he's a natural worrier.
with 2 children I just don't have the time or facilities to really improve his jumping (bravery, experience) i would love to be able to take him out xc and sj occasionally and not have him so worried and green.... we're in East Anglia (Suffolk). Any one know of any good ideas??? Or even suggestions. I have transport xx

 

[Fly_By_Wire]

Hi, we're in a similar area! Are you looking for schooling ideas/strategies, places to take him, someone to school him or an instructor/coach to help you?

 

[MummyEms]

Possibly ideally someone to come and jump school him?
Open to other ideas too.
Xx

 

[ihatework]

You can do this at home!

Small weird and wonderful stuff (really small, like 60cm) and plastic sheets / water tray etc

Take all speed out of it and let the horse see what it’s doing and learn to just pop from walk/jog

I’ve got quite a spooky, reactive, over emotional 4yo who has quietly been doing this for the last few weeks and when he went out Xc schooling for the first time just took everything in his stride. He walked up to diddy fences did a couple of jog steps and popped. By the end of a 30 minute session he was jumping BE90 combinations.

They just need to understand the questions and that is primarily done at home.

 

[Roxylola]

Keep it small and simple and do it regularly. Use poles on the floor and raised poles etc
Every time you ask a question that your horse can easily understand and answer you put money in the confidence account and the horse learns to trust that you ask questions he can answer and when you ask harder questions as long as the horse understands them they will answer them

 

[MummyEms]

Brilliant help, thank you so much. I'll try some xx