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Hi there today
I'm going to show you how to set up the
Distances in your jumping chute so that you can free jump your horse and your own arena, so let's get started
Name is Laura welcome to another video if it's your first time here. Hey, how's it going?
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So I've been free schooling free jumping horses once a week, and it is so much fun
I did a live video on it showing some video and it turned out really crappy. So I redid it. I used an enclosed area we use the
Arena at Fraser Field farms. Thanks Robyn shoutout to Robyn and
Really easy to do you just have to have some jump rails
Some jump standards and what we used from the dollar store is
Caution tape it's that wide yellow tape that we just wrapped around the jumps, so here you can see the before video
So this is the arena. It's your regular dome type arena
regular dressage ring size
20 meters by 40 meters so
66 feet by
132 feet really easy, and you don't have to have any special equipment, you can see that. This is the before
setup
Have you ever used a jump chute put it in the comments below of how you set it up, and what distances you used.
so we took the guesswork out of all the measuring as well we
Took a measuring tape and measured the distances between the jumps and when you measure the distances between the jumps remember to measure
inside-to-inside so we measure the inside of the pole to the inside of the pole here's where the pole on the ground and that's
Robyn
using the pole to measure
And you can see here, we did 18 feet
this is because in the perfect world that I wanted to work in that I wanted to do a
9 foot rail
18 feet to a jump and then 21 feet to the next jump
I was figuring the horses would trot in do he once tried to an easy one stride jump out
But the horses had different ideas so that's 18 foot and then we measured 21 feet
to the next Pole
And
This is the way the jump is set up so they're coming from the right hand side of the thing near letter H
And they're going towards letter e so you can see right here, and let me just show you
So they're coming from they can see the 9 foot rail to the to this first set of jump standards
And that's where the first jump is going to be and then it's going to be 18 feet
So from the first set of jump standards to the next set of jump standards right here
it's going to be 18 feet and
then from 18 feet to the next set of jump standards gonna be 21 feet and in my eye -
What I decided what we should do is to have - one stride jumps a little bit of a gymnastic
ezpz textbook type of scenario for your
for your for your jump
So I was thinking that we would have an easy peasy
nine-foot rail to the first jump
18 feet to the second jump 21 feet to the third jump
So my idea that I thought was gonna happen is that they were gonna trot in do the first jump take an easy one stride
Then the second jump take an easy one stride go to the third jump
But that's not quite the way it worked out the distances were wrong the horses were excited
They weren't trotting in they were coming in at
forward mostly canter so we had to adjust the
Distances and we had to adjust the jumps
And we moved it back to a two stride at 30 almost 32 feet
And this is the distances Oh 30 30 feet
five inches
So we decided on doing it at 30 feet five inches
And that seemed to work well with the horses that we had and the height of the jumps that we had
But weren't too high so that I wanted to measure it after we did it a couple times
Just to make sure we did have to move it a little bit for some of the horses
One horse had a little bit bigger stride one
Where its head a little bit shorter stride, but this is what we use generally speaking 30 feet five inches
For the two stride
combination
And that might be a bit short for some horses
So this is a picture
This is the video of when the horses the first horse we walked through we just walk them through and let her have a little
Bit of mouthful of grain after we walked her through and this is really important because it
Rewards the horse for walking through the chute
This is what we like to do is reward the horse for doing what we want them to do
And so after we walk through a couple times. We trotted the horse through and she got the idea
She knew that she was supposed to go through
It see it's a little tight through there, so let the horse go I stood and videoed
Easy one two a little bit tight for her
But we wanted for her to
Shorten up her stride a little bit and sit back on her hocks and that's just gonna play through again. So you can really see
Encouraged she was to get through there because she knew that she was going to get a bit of a
treat when she got to the end
Easy peasy right? and then we did it again
And here she is coming through again one stride, and then she decided rather than rock back on her hawks at the canter
She'd break into the trot and go over the jump at the trot
And that's three foot six so that's a decent jump, and you can see that. We just put up verticals
until the horses got used to jumping and
Understanding what it is that we wanted them to do and developing the muscles, but kept it easy for them so that they could
Develop the muscles and a positive way and
Be encouraged to complete the jump shoot without any stress and once she's done that
What does she do she stops and gets her face into the bucket of green so that she can go around and do it again?
Easy right I'm three foot six and a half three bits yeah, three six
So that's a good jump for that little horse
And this is the next horse going through this is Toffee going through and again
We walk through them through the entire shoot
Walking through you see how careful. This horse is walking through and then at the end
What do we do we give them a little treat of
grain
So after we've walked them through a couple of times they get the idea
They get to go through there and stop and eat grain so then when we get through them and let them go at the beginning
Of the shoot they just trot through and go through on their own
we don't have to chase them around with the crop at all you saw that we just walked her through a couple of times and
Let her stop and have a mouthful of grain, right
So the next time through we put some jumps up let her have a mouthful of grain well
Here's a video of her going through and you can see what she does when she gets to the end
Here's Toffee at the beginning of the chute, and you can see that. She's ready to go. Oh! She's just trotting through in hand
So same thing we're just trotting through in hand
One time through at the trot
and
eating!
And now so the next time through we set up a couple of jumps. Let it go through on her own
So she gets the idea and jumped the jumps and at the end she gets a treat she gets a reward
So here comes I think this is toffee yeah, that's toffee
So when we were finished with that horse
She was jumping about four foot one. So we raised up two or three times in between and she was going through there
No problem at all taking the two strides and jumping and we ended off her at four foot one
And I think this is a really good way to develop the horse and get the horses strength training going
So this is Honey the horse
She comes in
lovely canter beautiful jump over the first fence and she kind of
Breaks into a trot. I think she's part draft or so she
And that's a three foot six fence there, so she really easily comes in jumps the jump and
No problems with that kind
Of she comes again
And that's three two bit six again, she's easy six for the first one and then three foot six for the second one
So you see that you can also do your own?
jumping chute
It's really simple to do you can do it and with any of the things that you have in your own place
You can just set up a small one with one jump so that you can watch and learn
To feel and see how your horse is going through the jumping chute
If you got a few jump standards you can train your horse to go through the chute or go over a jump
Leave them over give them a treat put them over again give them a treat
It's so much fun. Because you can watch them and see how they move over the jumps
Put in the comments below the distances you use and how
High you got your horse to jump
It doesn't have to be difficult it can be easy and I know you can do it, too
My name is Laura
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