Canter Control for Better Courses Part 4: Jumping a Course
Jumping
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5m 37s
Show jumper Andrew Welles reviews how he sets courses at home to incorporate elements of competition courses so they become routine. In schooling courses, he includes straight and bending lines, a plank, vertical-to-oxer and oxer-to-vertical combinations, a rollback turn and a liverpool. Then he demonstrates jumping a course—the culmination of the work in this series. Go to the “Resources” tab to download a diagram of the course.
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