Camryn in Ireland my sister was hunting and jumped a ditch onto a stone wall and then off over another jump. Hunting is a different world. I hardly think that is any safer than jumping a 3' wire fence. Very very rarely to horses come home with any injuries from hitting the barb, and plenty of horses touch the fences. Again wire fences have a lot of give and sway and again barb is one of the safest types of wire to jump because it breaks and doesn't stretch