This only really applies IF you walk with a 3ft (~0.9m) stride yourself. I naturally walk a little shorter than that, so I have to train myself to walk EXACTLY 3ft when I need to. And like you said, not all horses even have that stride
Helped me a lot with teaching beginners understand strides, distances, and horsemanship!! will forever recommend my clients to y'alls youtube page for off horse homework.
I like the whole video, the music and the very good information, that is very clearly been told. I was already familair with the information, but it's Always nice to hear and see it again. The basics is the most important thing for horse riding (and any sports) And maybe it's easyer for me to walk the distance in foot, than in metres. I certainly try it out. Thanks for the video
Competitions are set for an average stride of 12 feet which is 4 steps as shown. Yes, horses take different sized strides, but you want your horse to easily do the 12 foot stride you will be competing with, so stride lines with them and adjust your horse's strides to get the number you measure. I have a 13.2 hand pony, who's natural stride is not 12 feet, it's more like 9-10. When I school I start at where he's comfortable and then move the jumps out and work to get the 12 foot to compete at.
4 human strides is one horses canter stride. 2 Human strides is a horses take off and 2 human strides is the landing. So a double combination with one horse stride in the middle is 6 human strides. Generally this is for 16/16.2hh+ or smaller horses with long, exaggerated strides. Ponies canter strides range towards the 9ft canter stride which is why a lot of competitions in the UK will have Junior/up to 14.2 jumping classes.
I get what you are saying... But how do you measure your horses stride in steps? It's like so confusing to me :/ do you take steps of the length of your horse then add one more step? Or how do you know how many steps your horses stride is?
Do those striding distances apply to smaller horses? i hsve a 13.3 cob I'm going to teach to jump (we're going to learn together), and wanted to understand the theory before the practical. I don't want to make the jumping difficult for her, because I don't know what I'm doing! Thanks 😊
can anyone help. I'v just started jumping my share horse and popped him over some 50cm jumps...he never stops but does look down before he jumps it. If I really slow him down (I mean so slow) he doesn't do it. What can I do?
I think they're less common in Eventing than in the Jumper ring, to be honest. And by the time you are jumping them you'll probably know all of this anyway :]
It all depends on their body shape. Horses with thicker necks or that are just bigger in general usually look over bent. And I’m a western rider but I’ve gone to riding lessons with my English riding friend and trust me, I’ve seen some bent horses!
