Jonathan teaches this group lesson beginning with gymnastic exercises to clarify skills for jumping courses. The first exercise consists of trot poles, then a leg yield away, turning back to a line with take-off and landing rails for a small X, leg yielding again to a change if needed, then circling. The emphasis is on straightness, accurate leg yields, and the right pace and length of stride. He later adds a small oxer one stride after the X.
Up Next in Stadium Jumping
-
Galway Symposium | Christopher Bartle...
Part 1: The riders work around the arena, going over the cavaletti. Christopher emphasizes the importance of not looking down at them, or any obstacle and instead looking ahead and allowing the horse to sort their own feet out. Working with poles set up on a curve, Christopher is able to help the...
-
Galway Symposium | Christopher Bartle...
Part 4: Christopher brings the session together with a canter exercise over cavaletti that demands the riders use everything they've practiced so far to completed a successful flying change. They focus on using the position statement to pick up and maintain a correct canter, rather than using the...
-
Galway Symposium - Part 3
Part 3: The riders work on a circle, transitioning between medium and working canter with a focus on using the inside hip to communicate with the inside hind leg of the horse, and maintaining the balance with the outside rein. Christopher talks with the riders about maintaining a contact even whi...
