Build a Professional Jump Course That Lasts a Lifetime — Without the Weekend Maintenance Grind
The Easy-Up® Jump Package #1 gives you a complete, weatherproof course — wing standards, training standards, brush boxes, flower boxes, vinyl walls, and gates — ready to set up and ride without ever picking up a paintbrush again.
Your Jump Standards Are Fighting You — Not Helping You Train
Picture a Sunday morning in April. You've cleared your schedule, got up early, the horse is already moving well on the lunge, and you're genuinely excited to school. Then you walk into the ring. One wooden standard has a rail cup that's half off its bracket, rusted through over winter. A second one is starting to lean at the base — the ground board split from freeze-thaw cycles and now it rocks on anything but dead-flat footing. You spend the first forty minutes fixing equipment instead of riding. The session you planned never quite happens.
What makes this worse than it looks on the surface is that deteriorating jump equipment doesn't fail all at once — it fails incrementally, quietly, in ways that are easy to overlook until something goes wrong at the wrong moment. Splintered wood on a rail cup edge nicks a leather rein. A warped brush box sits at an angle that reads differently on approach from the left versus the right, training your horse to drift. A standard that wobbles slightly on impact doesn't fall — it just moves enough to make the fence look different after every rail hit, subtly undermining your horse's confidence over fences. The equipment is training your horse, even when you're not asking it to.
The daily grind is real. Repainting wooden standards is a spring ritual that takes a full weekend if you do it properly — strip, sand, prime, two coats, dry time between each. Stacking wet-season rails that have swollen is a back problem waiting to happen. Storing flower boxes and brush boxes over winter means finding space for equipment that's too bulky to stack efficiently. Every time you want to reconfigure your course, you're also doing an equipment audit: which standards are still solid, which filler is cracked, which gate hinge has worked loose. You're not a trainer doing course design — you're a facilities manager doing repairs.
Most riders try workarounds. They buy replacement cups and brackets piecemeal, searching online for hardware that matches what they already have. They wrap splintered rails in tape, which holds for a week. They skip the flower boxes entirely because dragging heavy, awkward fillers in and out of storage isn't worth it for a Tuesday schooling session. They rotate through standards, retiring the worst ones and hoping the rest last another season. None of it solves the underlying problem — the material itself is fighting the environment it lives in, and the environment always wins eventually.
Every Hour Spent on Maintenance Is an Hour Not Spent in the Saddle
The ripple effects go further than the time you log on maintenance days. When your course looks ragged — faded paint, mismatched filler, a gate that's been duct-taped at the hinge — it changes how you approach your training. You stop inviting your trainer out as often because you're embarrassed by how the ring looks. You avoid setting up the more creative questions that require moving multiple fillers, because the logistics cost too much energy before you've even gotten on. Your horse gets drilled over the same two or three plain verticals because those are the fences that aren't giving you trouble. The equipment isn't just costing you time — it's quietly narrowing your training program.
There's an emotional cost to managing equipment that's slowly losing the battle against weather and use. It's a low-grade, persistent frustration — the kind that doesn't cause a crisis on any given day but accumulates over seasons into a feeling that your facility is always one step behind where you want it to be. Riders who board elsewhere don't deal with this. They show up, ride, leave. When you own your facility, that gap between the ring you have and the ring you imagined when you built it becomes a background stress that never fully goes away. Nobody buys property and builds a jump ring imagining they'd spend their free time as a carpenter.
Run the numbers and the financial picture is equally discouraging. A decent set of painted wooden wing standards runs $80–$120 each, and they need repainting every two to three years in most climates — that's materials, brushes, and a full weekend of your time. Replace warped bases and cracked rails, add in the flower boxes and brush boxes you stopped buying because the cheap versions fell apart after one winter, and factor in the gate hardware you've replaced twice — you've easily spent $1,500–$2,000 maintaining equipment that still looks worse than it did when you bought it. The math for weatherproof, lifetime-guaranteed equipment is straightforward once you account for what you're actually spending on the alternative.
- ✗Repainting standards every spring eats an entire weekend
- ✗Warped bases and cracked rails create unsafe, uneven fences
- ✗Heavy wooden fillers rarely get set up — so they never get used
- ✗Deteriorating equipment trains your horse to be inconsistent
One Package. A Complete Course. Nothing to Paint, Rot, or Replace.
The Easy-Up® Jump Package #1 is a complete, ready-to-use jump course designed from the ground up to live outdoors, take daily use, and look exactly the same in year five as it did on delivery day. Everything you need is in one package: four pairs of wing standards, six pairs of training standards, a pair of brush boxes, two pairs of flower boxes, a pair of vinyl walls, a lattice gate, and a solid gate. You're not buying a starter set and adding to it — you're building a real training environment from day one.
The reason Easy-Up equipment holds up where wood fails comes down to material science. Every piece is manufactured from a high-density polymer composite specifically engineered to resist UV degradation, moisture absorption, and freeze-thaw cycling — the three forces that destroy wooden jump equipment over time. There's no grain structure to crack, no paint layer to peel, no metal hardware to rust. Rail cups are integrated into the standards rather than bolted on, eliminating the most common single point of failure in traditional equipment. The bases are weighted and engineered for stability on arena footing without requiring ground anchors, so you can reposition fences quickly and safely.
The cascade of benefits is immediate and cumulative. Because the fillers are lightweight and stack efficiently, you'll actually use them — the flower boxes come in from storage, the brush box goes in front of the vertical, the gate gets incorporated into combinations. Your horse sees more variety in a single schooling session than it used to see in a month. Top trainers and university equestrian programs tested this package precisely because it makes advanced course design accessible without a facilities crew. When the equipment works for you rather than against you, your training gets more creative, your horse gets more confident, and your ring finally looks like the facility you invested in building.
Every Easy-Up® product is backed by a lifetime warranty and by Schneiders Saddlery — a family-owned business in Chagrin Falls, Ohio that has been equipping riders since 1948. Seventy-eight years of standing behind what we sell means the warranty is real and the company will be here to honor it. If anything fails — in season one or season twenty — we make it right. That's not a marketing line. It's how a third-generation family business operates when its reputation depends on it.
Completely Weatherproof
UV-stabilized polymer composite won't crack, fade, peel, or rot in any climate — zero seasonal maintenance required.
Complete Course in One Box
Wing standards, training standards, brush boxes, flower boxes, vinyl walls, lattice gate, and solid gate — nothing extra to source.
Lifetime Warranty
Backed by Easy-Up's lifetime guarantee and 78 years of Schneiders' family-owned integrity. We stand behind every piece.
Top Trainer Tested
Approved by professional trainers and NCAA college equestrian programs who need equipment that performs under daily, year-round use.
Plan Your Easy-Up® Course Layout
- Choose drilled-hole or pinless standards
- Position wing standards for featured obstacles
- Use training standards throughout schooling lines
- Place brush boxes beneath selected fences
- Rotate flower boxes to refresh obstacle profiles
- Add vinyl walls for a distinct filler shape
- Alternate lattice and solid gates around the course
How We Stack Up
| Feature | Schneiders Easy-Up® Jump Package #1 | Dover Saddlery Wood Standards | Ammo Jump Equipment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complete course package (standards + fillers + gates) | ✅ | ❌ | ⚠️ |
| Weatherproof / no seasonal maintenance | ✅ | ❌ | ⚠️ |
| Lifetime warranty | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| UV-stable color (no fading or repainting) | ✅ | ❌ | ⚠️ |
| Freeze-thaw resistant (no cracking or warping) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Lightweight for easy course reconfiguration | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Brush boxes + flower boxes included | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Gate fillers (lattice + solid) included | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Top trainer and collegiate program tested | ✅ | ⚠️ | ❌ |
| Backed by family-owned retailer since 1948 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
What's in the Easy-Up® Jump Package #1 — Every Piece, Accounted For
Four pairs of wing standards give you the presence and framing of a competition ring, while six pairs of training standards let you build combinations, grids, and gymnastic lines without running out of equipment. The pair of brush boxes adds a natural, inviting groundline for young horses or horses building confidence. Two pairs of flower boxes let you vary the visual question at the base of vertical and oxer fences. The pair of vinyl walls adds a solid, substantial filler that reads boldly — exactly the kind of fence that prepares horses for what they'll see at shows. The lattice gate and solid gate round out the package with course-variety options that most home rings never have. All of it ships ready to assemble, and no tools beyond a rubber mallet are required for setup.
The standards accept standard 12-foot rails (not included, to keep shipping costs manageable on the large-format pieces) and are compatible with any traditional jump cup. Rail heights are adjustable across a full working range, making the package suitable for everything from ground poles for young horses to upper-level schooling heights. Because all materials are color-stable and UV-resistant, you can mix and match with existing Easy-Up fillers or add pieces from the Easy-Up line over time without worrying about color drift between production runs. The system is designed to grow with your program.
- ✓4 pairs wing standards + 6 pairs training standards — complete grid and combination capability
- ✓Brush boxes, flower boxes, vinyl walls — three distinct filler types for visual variety
- ✓Lattice gate + solid gate — competition-realistic course questions from day one
- ✓UV-stabilized polymer — no paint, no stain, no annual refinishing
- ✓Lifetime warranty — honored by Schneiders Saddlery, family-owned since 1948
Choose the Standard Setup That Fits Your Preferred Jump-Cup System
A Planned Course Foundation in One Coordinated Package
This package combines lightweight, weatherproof vinyl standards, boxes, walls, and gates for riders and facilities that want a versatile indoor or outdoor course with a professional appearance.
Bring a Coordinated, Professional Look to Your Arena
Explore Easy-Up® Jump Package #1 and choose drilled-hole or pinless standards for your indoor or outdoor course setup.