How do I train for cross country in my current situation?
Hi,
How do I train for myself and my horse for cross country? See I moved to a different city and the place I was at before had a cross country coarse and jumps and everything. Well the new place I am at there is no jumps or cross country coarse only trails. So what can I do to be ready to do cross country races when show season starts?
Does those things really help to train for cross country?
If you’re handy, cross country jumps are not too difficult to build. But if you’re serious about eventing, you’ll just need to trailer your horse over to places that allow cross country schooling. Even when you board at a farm with some cross country jumps, you still should trailer to other places as they may have more jumps on the course, different types of fences, tougher terrain, etc. Your eventing trainer should be able to set you up with some schooling opportunities. If you don’t have a trailer, maybe you could pay somebody at your barn to take you??? Good luck, finding cross country schooling opportunities can be difficult.
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March 02 2010 11:11 am | Cross
Kayala on 02 Mar 2010 at 4:25 pm #
Go for a walk on the trails. Find old branches and rocks, and stack them. If you can take a small shovel to give slight ditches,and use the dirt to elevate jumps more. It’d be work but if it’s all you got it’s all you got. I practice my cross country over the same 13 jumps every week. All no higher than 2′6. You can still practice a lot of things.
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Angela on 02 Mar 2010 at 4:57 pm #
If you’re handy, cross country jumps are not too difficult to build. But if you’re serious about eventing, you’ll just need to trailer your horse over to places that allow cross country schooling. Even when you board at a farm with some cross country jumps, you still should trailer to other places as they may have more jumps on the course, different types of fences, tougher terrain, etc. Your eventing trainer should be able to set you up with some schooling opportunities. If you don’t have a trailer, maybe you could pay somebody at your barn to take you??? Good luck, finding cross country schooling opportunities can be difficult.
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Spify23 on 02 Mar 2010 at 5:24 pm #
cross country jumps are some of the easiest to build as the are all based on natural obstacles. Search around the farm for anything that can be used to create some jumps. This can be anything from tyres, barrels, pieces of wood, branches and logs, buckets, hay bales. The key is to use your creativity. Once you have found enough to build a few jumps, ask your YO if you can use a large field or camp to put them up in. Get a hammer, some nails, a spade and a saw if neccessary. Make sure you have someone to help you, especially if you are inexperienced with tools. The jumps don’t all have to be the same height. Try to make them as different and wierd as you can, the more spooky your jumps at home are the less likely your horse will spook at a show. The don’t have to be solid, but you don’t want them falling over with the wind.
Have fun.
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