Horse skijoring

pyry

Here's a few shots from last weekend, got to try my hand at pulling a skier with a horse. Fun!












What do you think?

Cuong

That looks like a lot of fun without having to worry about lifts.

Cuong

divamum

Oh my gosh - get OUTTA here! I have never seen that (then again, my riding years were in much warmer climates )

This is way, way WAY cool!!!!

Btw, what do you guys in the frozen north do to keep their hooves from balling up? Do they get special wintertime shoes, or do you just use the old trick of motor oil or...? Enquiring minds

Thanks for sharing!!!!!

richtersl

Now there's a different way of using "horsepower" to pull someone on skis over water.

Cool shots, Pyry!

pyry

Cuong wrote:

That looks like a lot of fun without having to worry about lifts.

Cuong

Yeah, everybody loved it, riders, skiers and horses

divamum wrote:

Oh my gosh - get OUTTA here! I have never seen that (then again, my riding years were in much warmer climates )

This is way, way WAY cool!!!!

Btw, what do you guys in the frozen north do to keep their hooves from balling up? Do they get special wintertime shoes, or do you just use the old trick of motor oil or...? Enquiring minds

Thanks for sharing!!!!!

Enthusiastic aren't we, maybe you should give it a go?
You know, usually this stuff takes place on a track with fences for the horse and jumps for the skier

Yup, winter shoes with studs and different kinds of rubber inserts (and you still get balled up hooves..)


Thanks for the comments, Diva and Cuong

pyry

richtersl wrote:

Now there's a different way of using "horsepower" to pull someone on skis over water.

Cool shots, Pyry!

One horsepower will give you quite a thrill when there's room to run! And the one I got to ride with was pretty difficult to hold back

Thanks!

Llywellyn

All I could think of is what would happen to the skier if the horse suddenly stopped. :giggle Fascinating pastime.

pyry

Llywellyn wrote:

All I could think of is what would happen to the skier if the horse suddenly stopped. :giggle Fascinating pastime.

The skier would come sailing past in a hurry. There's two good reasons for not being directly behind the horse:

a) carving around means the skier gets to go even quicker and
b) at canter there's a snowball fight you will never win.

clcoronios

Wonderful shots, pyry! I was hoping to get a skijoring shoot in this winter, but the German dressage trainer I know who does it and I just couldn't get together. Maybe next year!

Where "up north"??

C

pyry

clcoronios wrote:

Wonderful shots, pyry! I was hoping to get a skijoring shoot in this winter, but the German dressage trainer I know who does it and I just couldn't get together. Maybe next year!

Where "up north"??

C

Thanks, I hope you get your shoot!

Up north in my case is Finland

clcoronios

Oh. Oh my! Yup, that'd be north, ok..

Carol

pyry

clcoronios wrote:

Oh. Oh my! Yup, that'd be north, ok..

:giggle

60 degrees north is a good latitude