Adjust Your Horse's Stride with Gymnastic Jumping Exercises

a light feel of the mouth until the horse has left the ground. Allow the second pole to encourage your horse to land and canter away in uphill balance.
To canter into the exercise start out with a good forward canter making sure the horse is in front of your leg. Well in advance of the jump 10 strides or more drop into a full seat and collect the canter but remember to maintain impulsion and a clear threebeat rhythm. Look to the first pole and if you find the distance smoothly and comfortably it will set up the distance to the fence for you. As your horses front feet begin to step over the pole raise your eyes to focus on the top rail of the vertical and let the canter rhythm carry you over the fence.
While The Compression Chamber is more accessible to a green horse or rider the second exercise is designed for a horse thats comfortably jumping at least 36 and a rider whos starting to develop the capability to jump 39. This is a very challenging gymnastic for horse and rider and should be introduced one part at a time Brian cautions. You will need your horse to be proficient at the bounces by themselves before you put them into the context of this gymnastic. Once you have built the gymnastic one part at a time and you and your horse are comfortable and successful with that you are ready to try it as a whole.
Keep the jumps relatively small at first around 2 for the verticals and 29 to 3 for the oxer. You can raise them as you become more proficient but Brian cautions If you get to the point where the bounces are three feet three inches and your oxer is about four