How to Train Your Horse to Lunge : How to Free Lunge a Horse at a Reverse Canter

[tripxandxslide]

in my experience with free lunging, all communication should be done through body language-vocal commands are used more for regular lunging, ground driving, leading, and riding when you start to do that

[rosycheeks44]

@tripxandxslide you just made my day.

[LestatMonCopain]

That horse is lame, pretty, but lame

[forebr02]

wow some people are realy dumb , its called a LUNGEING WHIP for a reason its used to LUNG a horse theres nothing wrong with what shes doing all she has to do is show it to the horse , :)

[purefreedom1995]

the whip isnt for whipping them you stupid idiots. Its to reinforce leg aids when not on their back!

[westernhorse16]

That's a LUNGE WHIP!! They are extra long so that you can exercise/train your horse in a round pen. The whips you're talking about are used for extra aid. If you think i'm being mean, i'm not!

[purefreedom1995]

I never said that ? o.O

[westernhorse16]

sorry! wrong comment.

[jamerz1024]

SORRY, its just a belief. i love horses ,,and i know how much painful whips are.. ouch. hah i accidentally whiped mysself with a little one before when i was riding a pont,. i believe little whips but not those huge painful ones.. ssssssssssooorrryyy .

[USNBRAT91]

the whip NEVER actually comes in contact with a horse! It's obvious you aren't experienced in lunging...

[sugarthief]

oh no no no, the whip is not used to actually hit the horse it's not even a "punishment" tool. Think of it this way, when on a horse's back you have aids or signals you can send the horse through eyes, hands, legs and seat. On the ground those aids are replaced by the lunge "whip" in a manner of speaking. It's sort of a misleading title for a tool meant for communication because your first guess is that it's used to punish the horse in some way. It's just a signaling method. No horses are hit :)

[sexcchicky666]

Yea whips are painful for us, but say you were actually riding with a dressage whip and you do use it on the horse it DOES NOT hurt them. Unless used in a incorrect manner.

[egrdog]

1. You use the whip as an extension of your arm, or like a leg aid if you were riding.

2. Try whipping yourself as hard as you use the whip on your horse. I did this. It does not hurt. You cannot feel it. Because you do not touch the horse with the whip.

3. Occasionally I have to use the rope end on my very stubborn pony, but 90% of the time he doesn't react to it, so I don't see how he can possibly be in pain.

[oxLukeyxo]

XD haha, jamerz, you're obviously not a horse person. Whips are a teaching aid, same with spurs. Sure, they can be used abusively, as with any piece of tack, but used correctly they help extend the arm or leg.

[jamerz1024]

thats soo cruel! watch what your doing with that poor baby. does he deserve that?! so what if he can lunge a whip is still not nessessary!

[SarooAloo]

lol, it's not cruel. You don't actually HIT the horse. A lunging whip is used for signals and in case the horse runs at you then you hold it out so they'll run into it.

You don't ride, do you?

[Glitzrider]

shes not doing anything cruel dumbass.

[jamerz1024]

a WHHIP?!!?!!?!?!!