How to see striding: Step 01, find a horse. 02, point horsey at jump. 03, mess it up cause your eye is garbage. 04, give up on riding and take up knitting. A narrative by me.
Hi Holly, I hope you are seeing this. Thankfully when its a line I do quite well, but when it's a jump by itself I often struggle seeing the stride and end up having to take one out or add one. My strides are not the worst, but I just need to try and find that perfect distance that these top riders take. Is it that my canter is not good enough, or that i'm interfering too much with the horse?
How do you meassure your strides when you put a pole down? Like how much distance is there between 2 poles for trotting and then how long is the distance for one stride? (did that make sense...?)
I use my own steps to measure the distance. Generally for horses, it's two steps for take off and two steps for landing and then four steps for every horse stride. I usually make it a little bit shorter for ground poles though because they're not jumping them. You might need to google the exact measurements and then see how many steps you get though because people's steps are different lengths haha
At most shows the jumps will be set for a 12ft stride. So to set up two poles for that, add 6ft for the landing of the first jump and add 6ft for the take off of the second jump. Then add in how many strides you want in between, each stride being 12 ft. (Say if you want a 3 stride jump, that's 36 feet plus 6ft for landing and 6ft for take off. So you would have 48 ft in between your two jumps for a three stride jump)
me : ok so we are gonna jump this in 3 strides my pony : mmmmmmmmmmmmmm i dont think so also my pony : puts in a mini stride for some strange reason XD
I recently had a bad fall of my 23 (more like 3 year old) warmblood percheron, i set up a bounce probably 45 cm tall. I cantered him up to it the first was ok the second one he pulled down his head a few milla seconds later his head was between his front legs i couldnt get him back up and i basically fell one way and he ran the other. I landed on my hip and ribs. I got back on and tried again i lost some confidence and he can pick up on that, i kept doubting myself and thinking i was gonna fall i pulled him out once then tried again 3 more times but he kept running out we ended it off and i had to go to the doctors i couldnt walk or even raise my arm, they thought i had 2 cracked ribs and something done to my hip but thank god it was only a minor chip. Ive asked a lot of experts what to do and i was recommended a running martingale. Ive bought one hoping it can help me keep his head up. Putting his head down after jumps has been an ongoing habit of his for as long as i can remember. Any tips?? After watching this video i feel i now have a better understanding of striding. This sure will help me😊P.S. your the best rider ever😍
I've always heard people say a stride is four steps, but when I do that the stride space looks super small. And I do not have small feet! Does anyone get this as well? And how many steps is equivalent to 1m?
Bella Equestrian I know but if you noticed I said county not country I knew she was from Ireland but if you don’t know Ireland is divided into counties which is the Irish equivalent to states
How to see striding: Step 01, find a horse. 02, point horsey at jump. 03, mess it up cause your eye is garbage. 04, give up on riding and take up knitting. A narrative by me.
Montana O. Im dead😂😂😂
Eryn Tucker sry but crocheting is much more entertaining
Had me in the first half ngl
Very nice. Do you do other exercises with rails on the ground (in a circle)?
When you just pray before a jump
If I could click the like button a thousand times I would!! OMG this was SO educational!
awn thank you so much! :D
this exercise is sooo effective, been doing it for years and seen such a difference :) awesome riding as always xx
Just saw this video, and it literally helped me so much! No more last minute halts and than a jump if ya know what I mean 😂
Hi Holly, I hope you are seeing this. Thankfully when its a line I do quite well, but when it's a jump by itself I often struggle seeing the stride and end up having to take one out or add one. My strides are not the worst, but I just need to try and find that perfect distance that these top riders take. Is it that my canter is not good enough, or that i'm interfering too much with the horse?
I have done this before i find it so beneficial too thanks for another amazing video love your position 😊❤
I'm so jealous of your leg. It's so still it's amazing!
haha thank you (lots of no stirrup riding is the key) ;)
How do you meassure your strides when you put a pole down? Like how much distance is there between 2 poles for trotting and then how long is the distance for one stride? (did that make sense...?)
Liz trot poles are usually 1m (horses) and one stride is about 6m (depends on your horse/pony)
I use my own steps to measure the distance. Generally for horses, it's two steps for take off and two steps for landing and then four steps for every horse stride. I usually make it a little bit shorter for ground poles though because they're not jumping them. You might need to google the exact measurements and then see how many steps you get though because people's steps are different lengths haha
two and four steps. I usually take four steps between each pole then you can both trot and gallop them.
depends on the horse galloways are usually 3 bigger steps and horses are usually 4
At most shows the jumps will be set for a 12ft stride. So to set up two poles for that, add 6ft for the landing of the first jump and add 6ft for the take off of the second jump. Then add in how many strides you want in between, each stride being 12 ft. (Say if you want a 3 stride jump, that's 36 feet plus 6ft for landing and 6ft for take off. So you would have 48 ft in between your two jumps for a three stride jump)
This helps so much omg😍😍👌 finally a video that explains it well
Omg im the subscriber number 15,000 congrats on hitting 15k
+Mahmoud Wisam thank you!! ❤️
trying this exercise tomorrow! I Hope it will help me:)
Actually found this really interesting! Will give it a go.
me : ok so we are gonna jump this in 3 strides
my pony : mmmmmmmmmmmmmm i dont think so
also my pony : puts in a mini stride for some strange reason XD
I recently had a bad fall of my 23 (more like 3 year old) warmblood percheron, i set up a bounce probably 45 cm tall. I cantered him up to it the first was ok the second one he pulled down his head a few milla seconds later his head was between his front legs i couldnt get him back up and i basically fell one way and he ran the other. I landed on my hip and ribs. I got back on and tried again i lost some confidence and he can pick up on that, i kept doubting myself and thinking i was gonna fall i pulled him out once then tried again 3 more times but he kept running out we ended it off and i had to go to the doctors i couldnt walk or even raise my arm, they thought i had 2 cracked ribs and something done to my hip but thank god it was only a minor chip. Ive asked a lot of experts what to do and i was recommended a running martingale. Ive bought one hoping it can help me keep his head up. Putting his head down after jumps has been an ongoing habit of his for as long as i can remember. Any tips?? After watching this video i feel i now have a better understanding of striding. This sure will help me😊P.S. your the best rider ever😍
I love your videos you are such a good teacher
thank you haha I'm not really but I'm trying to get better!
Love this video!!💖💖 could u also do it with cavalettis? Xx
You definitely can! :)
This videos help me so much! Please make more instruction vids❤️❤️
Haha great video Holly! I needed this a year ago lol
This is my FAVOURITE exercise, I love doing it with my horse, and even doing it with just one pole to start off
This video really helped me thank u for doing it
I've always heard people say a stride is four steps, but when I do that the stride space looks super small. And I do not have small feet! Does anyone get this as well? And how many steps is equivalent to 1m?
Amazing video! Can you bring more videos like this one? I love your tips and the way you teach makes it way easier haha ❤️
Brilliant video ~ as always :D
This really helped me!!!
What county r u from
CiCi LPS she is from Ireland
Bella Equestrian I know but if you noticed I said county not country I knew she was from Ireland but if you don’t know Ireland is divided into counties which is the Irish equivalent to states
You should do a controversial horsey topics video 🔥💯
Uploaded 45 seconds ago, no views, but 3 like? Wtf UA-cam 😂
Views are counted after you've seen a certain amount of a video.. Not the first second
Zazzysylvester ok
U are the best rider I ever saw I love your vids sooooooo much hopefully u do great with khal fionar and welbeck next year
Thank you!