How to Teach Your Horse to Free-Jump - Liberty, Free-Longeing

In this video, the PonyPros tell you how to teach your horse to go over a jump at liberty. This is also called free-jumping or free-longeing. 12-year-old, Kae, and her paint horse, Apatche, demonstrate! Apatche learns super fast with Natural Horsemanship and Clicker Training.

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[MillyEquestrianXx]

i am training a 3 year old ex racer to jump and with my friend we thought it would be a good idea to free jump him first. he took it well the first time (if we are leading him over it) but if we are leading him he tends not to jump properly but if he is asked to go on his own and with use of the whip he shoots off and bucks and refuses then to be caught again, he can get quite scary when he is charging around:P so we are know a bit frighten to free jump him:/ any help to get him to jump?xx

[ThePonyPros]

@MillyEquestrianXx After you lead him, teach him to jump on a longeline. Start with just a small pole and raise is slowly after each success. After he does a good jump, bring him in and give him a treat. After he can jump on the longeline, teach him "join up" or "hook on" in a round pen. Then free jump him in a smaller space like a round pen, starting with just a small jump and making it bigger after he gets the hang of each size. I have other freejumping vids with Ivie, Marley, and Shelby.

[MillyEquestrianXx]

@ThePonyPros okay, we would lunge..but i am pretty sure he would not like it and cause damage to us or himself.. we would in a round pen.. but we dont have much facilities:P thanks very much for your help though:)xx

[ThePonyPros]

@MillyEquestrianXx If you are longeing right it should never be dangerous. Start at a walk and teach the horse to move away from you on a regular lead rope. Search for the CIES video "how to longe a horse to prepare for riding". Gradually move up to a trot on a longer rope.

[MissRainRider]

Hello there :)

When I ask my shetland to do a jump, he runs over it like crazy. I don't ask him to! I want him to go over slow and safe, like the horse in your video does. But he starts gallopping like crazy :-S

What can I do?

[ThePonyPros]

@MissRainRider Try watching my videos, "How to Teach Your Horse to Jump Calmly Without Rushing", "How to Teach Your Horse to Free-Jump", and "Shelby Free Jumping". If he isn'y good at liberty yet, try watching "Teach Your Pony to Follow You At Liberty" first. For riding, watch "Teach Your Pony to Trot Slowly Over Jumps" and "Part 2 - Using Snaking/Weaving to Slow a Horse Down".

[leaettam]

thanks for posting this! what a great learning tool!

[Ilovershorses]

WOW I WORKED WITH THIS ON MY HORSE TODAY... SHE DID awesome, THANKS FOR POSTING THIS :)

[laurabonjour1]

that was amazing how you explained it all nice and calmly nice that that girl and horse have such a great realtionship just wonderful i loved it

[nopnopnopbop]

Your horse adores you :)

[horsefanatic2]

@roundinbarrels omg me 2

[ThePonyPros]

@ThePonyPros After he learns how to target your hand, he will learn what the click means. So next, send him over a very small jump on the longe and click as he is going over it. He probably won't catch on as quickly as that, so shake your treat bag to get his attention. After he will stop as soon as he hears the click, then you can make the jump bigger.

For the nervousness, try Googling endotapping. Plus do lots of desensitization exercises.