Those of you teaching horse riding at camp, are you taking all your stuff or buying over there? Im wondering how my joddies, boots, chaps and helmet are gonna fit in my luggage!

I was just wondering that as well! I am going to email my camp asking if i need to bring them! On the videos the people teaching are just wearing shorts, trainers, jeans, etc! havnt seen anyone wearing riding gear!

my friends going to a riding camp and it has all that stuff on her kitlist, but id imagine it could vary alot with camps! taking ur riding hat would make a fun journey...

im not taking any of my gear far too much to carry plus we'll be standing in the arena teaching not riding too much with the kids, plus if your camp does western riding they normally wear jeans anyways, and you can just wear your joggers

im also teaching riding but goin out early (may23rd) to get the horses fit again after the winter, not planning on taking riding stuff, just some leggings will do my riding stuff would take up my whole case =/

maybe all us horse riding people could all just rock up at all our airports in our full horse riding kit! helmet and all haha na i think its just going to have to be a full suitcase it will be too expensive to buy a full horse riding outfit for only 3 months or so

ask your camp what u need, my last camp i wore shorts most the time while standingin the arena, or you could just wear leggings? i doubt you'll need your helmet the cam will have then and at my last camp they bought us boots too, buteven then ibarelywore them.

I'm not riding staff my camp does do horse riding. I would check with your camp about what you actually need to take. I think staff at my camp used camp helmets, and they mostly wore jeans (we have to wear long trousers in horse country). When there were just teaching and weren't actually riding they wore trainers, they wore boots if they were going on a trail ride. I could see that you may want to take your boots, but you might not need everything else.

my camp have asked that i bring my own helmet and jodpurs as they have to be a certain standard and colour, but will only be riding for the first two weeks so a lot of room taken up for just that good idea i might wear it on the plane so it doesnt take up lots of room ha ha, at least i dont need to take my cody protector or i might be stopped at customs lol x

my camp says i'll be doing a ' Certified Horsemanship Certification ' 2 days after i arrive. does anyone know what this involves?

oh no! my camp has said i need to bring everything! am thinking the same as you lot about wearing my riding gear through the airport! lol

My bag will be very full!

I was on riding staff last year at Friendly Pines Camp in Arizona and myself and a girl from Wales were the only people that had jodphurs (Infact all the americans used to laugh at our funny tight pants) I think it really depends on your camp. I was in full on "cowboy country" and everyone rode in jeans. We took part in the 4th of July Parade through the closest town and out of probably a thousand people and I'd say about 500 or so horses I was the only person in joddies. In saying that if you find that you want to ride in jeans instead it's easy enough to buy a few pairs over there. They arn't very expensive...especially if you go to goodwill I took 4 pairs of jods to and because I was riding all day everyday they started to wear out really quickly so I would recommend taking about 5-6 pairs of pants you can ride in. I took my own helmet and riding boots but my camp did have helmets for people who didnt bring their own. Also, you can buy really nice boots for way way less in the states! Everything is sooooo much cheaper...such a shock when you get back home!
I hope this helps:) Camp is amazing...words can't even describe how great it is and horse staff are the best

Im doing horse riding at a girl scout camp, think im bringing just like one pair of jodphurs then leggings, then my hat, jodphur boots and chaps cant fit much else in and a crop might look rather dodgy at customs