Introduction to Horse Jumping

Series Summary

Throughout most of recorded history, horses have played a major role in the civilizations of mankind. These magnificent animals have carried us into battle, fierce and unafraid. They have pulled our plows and buggies, and helped us travel long distances. They’ve been essential in herding and driving our cattle, and the police still use them for crowd control situations in urban environments. Without a doubt, horses have proven to be well-adapted for human life, expressing qualities of loyalty and bravery, responding to commands. Riding horses is fun and challenging to do it well. Bareback riding is a particular kind of horseback riding which is done without a saddle. If you would like to learn how to learn the basics of bareback riding, see our beginner bareback riding series. If you have already learned some about bareback riding a horse but want to learn how to start jumping your horse, learn from one of our experts for free online.

In this free video series learn horse jumping from expert horse rider and horse jumper Sarah Stetner. She will teach you how to warmup, how to trot over poles, and canter over jumps. Learn also the two point position and collecting the horse at a canter.

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Sarah Stetner I'm a expert horse rider on behalf of Expert Village and in this video I'm just showing you how to jump this my horse Topper. What you do when you jump is it is very difficult but you do ride English as you can tell what I'm doing and there is a certain position that you want to be in called two point. What it is it is a up like this you want to keep the weight on your legs up at all time. You are kind of standing up on your saddle because when you go over the jump you want to just come up like this put your hands up here and it is all about balance. You want to have good balance in the two point position. So I would show you how to jump with the horse. I'm going to start slow and easy trotting over some poles at first. Not going to go very high. Then I will trot over the jump and then eventually I would canter. It is a long process though. So that is what I'm going to be doing in this video."