Teaching a Horse to Lunge on a Circle (part 2)

Using a large circle to teach the beginnings of trotting on the lunge. This is part of a SERIES on lunging so the complete playlist can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmAAtaCcDo0&feature=PlayList&p=F9A7FE7...

At this point, the horse knows the voice commands of whoa and walk. She understands the movement of my position around here and that she is to keep pace as well as a certain distance.

Here I start increasing the distance and ask for her to move in a large circle around me, and start introducing the trot command. It's best that a horse stay in a gait at LEAST 3-4 strides before being asked to change the gait - this improves the ability of the horse to use his body correctly.

Several well known trainers work in-depth with leading such as Linda Tellington-Jones
http://tteam-ttouch.com/whyTTEAM.shtml
and Klaus Hempfling
http://www.hempfling.com/

Disclaimer: I am not certified, endorsed, or trained by Klaus Hempfling. My work is inspired by his book Dancing with Horses. I have attended a TTeam workshop, but I am not certified by Linda Tellington-Jones at this time.

For more about my horses see my blog at http://www.horseideology.wordpress.com

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Pets & Animals

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• horse
• lunging
• lunge
• trot
• circle