So, do you change bits for jumping/showing etc

Do you change bits

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Yep.


I actually have to put a bit back in...I just ride him in a headcollar the majority of the time :p Pelham for hunting if the kids or someone slightly more novice takes him, though I'll take him in a thin bradoon loose-ring. If I show him, I pop him in a double. Jumping, again, just a loose-ring snaffle.


The Welsh, schooling in a normal snaffle, jumping in a thin snaffle, XC/hunting in a pelham.
 
Me, Waterford Dutch gag, 1st hole for SJ'ing and 2nd hole for fun rides and XC.
French link, full cheek snaffle for hacking, schooling, jumping at home, dressage ect.
Sometimes a Pelham for a little more advanced schooling.
 
No I jump and school in the same bit. Lose ring snaffle for one and D ring snaffle for the other for both schooling and jumping. If I needed a stronger bit to jump I would school in it too. Why? Because showjumping is just schooling with jumps in the way and I aim to be able to control my horse round jumps as well as I do on the flat. Why get a horse used to a snaffle then change to say a gag to jump. Horse will find it an instant difference rather than be schooled to work well in that bit. This is only what I do! Not what everyone should do!

I can see that eventing ect you should dressage in a snaffle ect and I can see how XC you may want a stronger bit with a similar action to what you would SJ in but that is different to pure SJing and thats all I do so all I can talk about
 
slow hacking in a french link or straight snaffle and jump and school in a pelham as the fitter he gets the more of an arse he is and hes a huge horse for me to be able to pull up when he gets going

the other has never jumped and is just hacked in what ever snaffle i happen to be trying out at the time :o currently straight happy mouth snaffle with full cheeks :)
 
Christsam said:
bit petty given some of the answers you have?
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Petty? How so? Please, feel free to add more options :)

Anyone that knows me will know that this poll is tongue in cheek, but I forgot to make that obvious. As far as I am concerned as long as it is not a welfare issue then what people do with their own horses is their own business.
 
Currently trying new things with new boy. Dressage I am trying a verbindend which seems to be working nicely. Up until now I always used a full cheek snaffle with him but he has taken to being a tank jumping and now and then hacking so am trying a universal and a waterford (not at the same time !)
 
Sweet iron loose ring for everything except showing when she wears a double to be correct for her class :)

I loved the options by the way :D
 
My old horse dressaged in a snaffle and did everything else in a pelham. To compound my sins in the eyes of HHO it was a jointed pelham, and everyone knows they don't work. And to ensure I burn in hell for all eternity, I used roundings not double reins. And had a martingale. And a grackle noseband. Oh HHO, forgive me for I have sinned :(

But wait! I seek salvation....

The new horse, who has done all of 3 weeks work since she was backed last year, does everything in a snaffle and a cavesson. Hallelujah, I have reached the dizzying heights of 'being able to ride' as decreed on HHO. I need never school again, for I have arrived, and I know what I am doing, for my horse, she goes in a snaffle and cavesson. I do use a neck strap, but she is only 4 ;)
 
Rope Halter or side pull (bitless) for trail riding and pottering about, Sweet iorn and copper jointed snaffle for schooling / jumping
I will jump logs etc out hacking in my bitless happily too, though my horse was started in halter first and was always very responsive so i still feel safer in this than my snaffle bridle even though she was equally responive when bitted as not
 
i do pretty much everything in a hanging cheek bit with a french link.. have a copper snaffle but i really only use that for lunging him while tacked up.

sometimes in summer if we go out a gallop ill change him into his 2 ring gag, but ive not used that in ages
 
My lad is normally schooled on flat and over fences in a loose ring snaffle, however for showing he's in a rugby pelham, and for hunting he's in a waterford hanging cheek with a drop noseband. Sometimes in winter he hacks in his hunting bridle as his "fire breathing Welsh dragon" side comes out :p
 
No. All of my horses bar one are ridden in sprenger lozenge bits for whatever I'm doing with them. If I needed to switch bits for some of my horses when they're doing different things then I would, but I don't.
 
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