Water Jumps

Flexing and stretching over a jumping line

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An excellent gymnastic that favours the top line suppleness and the correctness of its motion. This exercise is also a good way to school the horse and rider over liverpools and water-jumps.

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Intermédiaire

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An excellent gymnastic that favours the top line suppleness and the correctness of its motion. This exercise is also a good way to school the horse and rider over liverpools and water-jumps.

Progress:

This grid encourages the horse to flex and stretch his entire body. The double on the way-in encourages the rider to approach the line with a cadenced canter and sets the correct length of striding prior the water jump. Therefore, the horse is ready to cover the length of the water jumper that is next. The distance between the water-jump and the oxer on the way out reinforce the horse stretching motion.

Michel teaches Alice who spends a few days at the yard for a clinic. During this session, Alice rides Undiams, an eight year old gelding who has been trained for the last few weeks by Michel to reach the top level. Alice has, here, an excellent opportunity to discover new sensations with this horse who she rides for the first time.

Michel has set up a line of jumps that includes a water jump, a combination on the way-in and an oxer on the way-out. The horse has to bring together the quickness of his front legs, the stretching of his top-line over a wide obstacle and the pushing power over a high fence on the way-out. The key elements to be successful on this exercise are relaxation, steadiness of the strides, straightness and the rider’s eyes with a wide angle view.
This set-up is also a good way to practise water jumps which can be feared by horses and are causing many faults during a course. It is therefore very wise to work this type of obstacle at home without the added stress of the competition.

Undiams has usually a tendency to speed up in combinations. After jumping the line a few times, it appears that the exercise is profitable for his training. The horse is focused and attentive to each single fence and deconstructs each element of the line.

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schooling combinations

gymnastic for the horse

making the horse stronger. REF HAE33

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On any course, there are fences that are more worrying than others: water jumps, fillers, liverpools… It is important to have previously found a solution, to eliminate all negative thoughts (...)

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Intermédiaire

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(...) On any course, there are fences that are more worrying than others: water jumps, fillers, liverpools… It is important to have previously found a solution, to eliminate all negative thoughts while walking the course and during mental preparation. Imagining a successful jump over the water or the planks before setting off is an excellent way of managing to eliminate problems. As you enter the arena, do not hesitate to ride past the fence that’s worrying you, while patting your horse. When jumping the course, it is precisely while approaching these kinds of fences, that it is necessary to resort to the basis of all your work: keep your legs close to the horse and exaggerate your wide-angle vision. The legs are in contact but not tightened, ready to act to ensure that the same speed is maintained come what may.

Whatever happens, bear in mind that horses need to understand and learn. We have mentioned this previously; it is not when competing that one should present a horse, which has never even jumped a plain liverpool, with a 4-metre-wide water jump. Ideally, one should train over all the types of fences one might come across when show jumping. For those who do not necessarily have everything available, one can create a water jump using a simple blue plastic sheet placed on the ground.
As far as jumping the course is concerned, one fence down must not destroy all the rest. On the contrary, pretend it never happened, maintain your concentration for the rest of the course and use this opportunity to work on your horse and finish with no additional faults. This is important for competing calmly in future classes; the horse must remain confident (...)

Extract of the book "Secrets and method of a great champion"

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Jumping liverpools and water jumps on a lunge line

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Confirmé

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Nenuphar Jac joined Michel Robert’s yard a few weeks ago. This horse usually stops on jumps like liverpools or water jumps. The fear of water or the blue color is common among jumpers and it’s important to address this problem and make the horse discover this kind of jumps before going to shows.

Desensitizing the horse has to be done at home, in a calm and serein atmosphere. Michel advises to lunge the horse and make him go over liverpools or water jumps.

In this way, the horse can organize himself without the rider’s influence.

This work has to be fun like a game.

Progress:

The session starts off by going underneath the pergola which is a kind of a portico with blankets hanging off it like curtains. This set-up is useful for horses who fear going through narrow spaces such as stall doors or fences with a pergola.

After a short warm-up on cavalettis, Michel makes Nenuphar jump some blue or black liverpools. The session ends with going over water jumps.

It’s important to praise the horse each time he’s successful and to avoid an obsession by repeating jumps unnecessarily.

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Desensitization to liverpools and water jumps

Spooks at liver pools

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