Prepare your jumping session

With Appaloo Equestrian, find show jumping exercise ideas to work with your horse

Do you love a challenge and a thrill? Small fences or big jumps? Speed or a more controlled pace? Whatever you're looking for, you'll find the perfect show jumping session to work with your horse.

If you're a beginner, only have the opportunity to train outdoors and have limited equipment available, you'll discover easy exercises to help you learn the basics of riding and jumping.

If you're an experienced rider with access to an arena or round pen and have jump poles, barrels, cavaletti and jump standards available, you'll find jumping sessions worthy of the competition arena.

In short, whatever your level, training area or available equipment, Appaloo Equestrian creates sessions tailored to your profile.

Show jumping is an equestrian discipline in which horse and rider complete a course of jumps. In show jumping competitions, the rider must clear the obstacles in a specific order and within the time allowed, without knocking them down, refusing or running out.

Show jumping helps riders develop qualities such as confidence, balance and an effective position. The goal is to achieve perfect harmony between horse and rider. To do so, you need to master different elements such as impulsion, line, rhythm and speed.

Whether you enjoy verticals, combinations, cross rails, brush fences or water jumps, you'll find your favourite type of fence in our list of exercises.

Jumping is technical — and technique can be trained! With all these exercise guides, you'll become an expert at gymnastic lines and gridwork with your horse.

Learn, train and improve so you can go higher, faster and more confidently (taking the right options when needed), without having to suffer those dreaded 4 faults at the final fence — the ultimate disappointment!

Our show jumping sessions

With our collection of show jumping exercises, you'll never run out of inspiration for your training sessions. For each exercise, we provide detailed information about the objectives, how to perform it, potential difficulties and equipment required.

You can also take advantage of our automatic distance calculator to find out how to space your poles according to the gait (walk, trot or canter), your horse's size and the number of strides you want to ride.

No more complicated calculations, no more adjusting distances for your pony's shorter stride, and no more multiplying distances to set up a three-stride line — our feature does it for you!

Simply tell us whether you're working on flatwork or jumping, select your gait, enter your horse's size and choose the number of strides you want to ride. The ideal distance will then appear as if by magic!

Don't wait any longer to put the jumping lines you've discovered on the platform into practice and enjoy a simple, rewarding training session with your horse.

And don't forget to tag us in your social media posts when you're trying out one of the exercises. If you're happy for us to share it, we'll repost it! ;)

We wish you a fantastic show jumping session with Appaloo Equestrian!