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And I wouldn't start jumping anything serious until the horse was at lease 6, maybe even 7, because this can give him soundness issues later on in his life. Best of luck!

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Oh God.  No.  Teaching a horse to jump takes more than one day.  Trainer and I spent a couple of months on poles and cavaletti (granted, he was really unbalanced, so we had to focus on that, but still).  We didn't canter jumps for another couple of months.
If you try to do a bunch of polework and crossrails in the same day, you're going to wind up with an unconfident, dishonest horse. (inmostcases)

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also, see if you can find a trainer. a trainer will make a huge difference and he/she can give you ideas for exercises you can do with him to improve his jumping skills.

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I know. I wasnt saying like one day is all it would take. The next day for many months. I wasnt saying to do it all in one day. My whole post was in a month, maybe more than thats time. By me saying the next day i mean repeat the poles. Yea it didnt really make sense after i wrote it. Somehow the repeat the next day went after not before the trot over a pole lol My computer is really messed up. Yes and I know it is better to get a trainer but for grady we freelunged, then trained regualar basics (trotting poles etc) and then the trainer had trotting poles before a little crossrail it worked for him to focus on not jumping to early to late or not putting himself in the correct frame for jumping. I didnt mean it would only take one day. It took almost a full year for grady to be a jumper

               

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Start him off slow- use ground poles and small jumps on the longe line. After he's doing well, then get on him. Get your hands on a lot of training books BY trainers.

I taught my horse myself and he's NEVER run out or refused a jump in his life.

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That definately isn't true. If you want a horse trained carefully and correctly, not by a beginner's mistakes, then take it to a knowledgable trainer to start it.

But anyway- definately don't begin him jumping until he's solid walk/trot/canter on the flat. If you don't give him the solid flatwork foundation, you'll see the consequences of it later on when you're jumping him. I would say take him to lessons with a GOOD trainer, not some backyard cheap one that claims they know what they're doing.

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I highly agree with the bolded.
And if you're reading books BY trainers, your basically applying what a good trainer would teach you and your horse is person anyways.
And you now obviously have a trainer yourself no? Even if thye only gve you lessons, you're still paying to do what your trainer wants to teach you. ;)
Doing everything by yourself doesn't make you a great wonderful wonderful rider-sure it makes you a better one and you learn from your mistakes, but it doesn't mean that you're way of training a horse by yourself from books is set any higher than an experienced trainer who is there to help you in case you hit a rough spot or need help with the horses' training. ;)

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    anyways what i would do is first get your canter down on him and work with him on a lunge too. then trot him over poles like people mentioned before but do it on a lunge before you ride him over them. then when hes comfortable with that on the lunge ride him over it. then work on like x rails with him. (if you have like cavalias or jumps where the posts don't go really high then you can lunge him over small fences first) then it just goes up from there really but before you go real high make sure he learns good form over the fences because if he doesn't have that then hes not really jumping hes just trying to hopefully make it over the scary object. Don't get discouraged though teaching a horse to jump can be a lot of work and can take a LONG time!!!! JUst remember to be hard on him and don't let him refuse any jumps or let him bother you for ex: if he doesn't jump or he throws you off don't get real mad cause he can sense that and then he will just keep doing it every time cause he knows that it bothers you! Horses can be so dumb!!!!! lol!!! :)

                                  

   best of luck in your training i hope everything goes well!!! :)

                                  

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I personally don't care.
I was stating my opinion, and if you have the best hunter horse in the barn, then congrats.
But I don't truly know that, and no doubt he is an amazing horse. =)

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