are you allowed to lunge in your school?

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I know this has been done before but i've just had mine resurface and have been told not to let people lunge in it now, however i dont have a lunging pen yet?

are you allowed to lunge in your school? and if not do you have a lunging pen or equilivant to do it in? or dont you lunge

and is the lungeing pen floot lit?
 
We are not allowed to lunge in the outdoor manage exept if doing/having a ridden lunge lesson. Other wise you have to use the Lunge Arena, which is floodlit.
 
people do lunge in our school, but its bad for the surface and personally if i ever get my own yard i wont let people lunge in the arena, il get a lunging pen. Also its really difficult trying to school when people are lunging.
 
We have a lunge pen but people can still lunge in the school which gets on my nervs a bit as the lunge pen was made so that we wouldnt have the problem of restricted space in the menage. Obviously i dont mind when some people lunge in there but its the few that take up the whole menage and you end up crashing into there horses or vice versa! Oh look at me ranting!!!
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Both are flood lit!
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I never saw the problem with lungeing in a school until I saw what a mess it can make of the surface. My horse is a big lad and gets over-excited on the lunge, digging into the surface - not good. I think the occasional lunge is ok ie if the horse has had some time off and needs a lunge before being ridden, but probably best not to on a daily basis. A lungeing pen would be brilliant.
 
Our school is new (a couple of months old) and we have been asked not to lunge or loose school for six months. I do mostly ground work with my horse (my daughter does most of the riding) and so I was rather upset as it meant I couldn't do much with him. We have fields, but they get slippery/rutted.
I have now been given permission to take him in the school on the lunge (not to loose school) but only if I do enormous circles. Which in effect means I am running up and down the school and doing as much exercise as my horse is! Not a bad thing at all ........
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We are allowed to lunge, which mucks up the surface royally as people always seem to do it in the same spots, but we are not allowed to jump
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. Some people seem to lunge everyday, letting their horses faff about on a headcollar - really don't see the point in that unless a horse was confined to a box but allowed to exercise, which none of these are. I am not a great fan of lunging anyway, execpt in the breaking stages, interesting article in last week's H&H about it's detrimental effects...
 
Yes we are allowed to lunge in the school. TBH if there is no lunge pen or alternative arena to lunge in, I think it's unreasonable of a yard to say you can't lunge in the school. I can't always ride, due to injury, so my horse would go unexercised if I could not lunge. As for working in the field, the fields are only down for 'agricultural use' as regards the council. That does not permit riding. They would get very churned up amyway if used for lunging??? They cannot be raked/levelled as easily as a school can. I've also found that my horse slips and slides on the surface in the winter.
 
When my lad goes off on one, he really digs down into the surface, which leaves it looking like a relief map of the Himalayas. Then it's not very nice for whoever's in next. It does scatter the rubber and makes the surface uneven, especially if you don't move around and use the whole school. My YO is very reasonable about it, but I try not to lunge too often if I can help it.
 
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For goodness sake! What a fuss, why can't you lunge in a school? Ever heard of a rake etc.

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Pretty much my sentiments too!! The biggest problems I have come across are people how jumping in the arena, which leaves big divvots on landing............
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Not that I care, but if lunging is gonna be banned then surely other things should be banned...........
 
its only me that uses the school, cant believe im in a position to be able to say that, just me at the yard with oh and yo and i can do whatever i like when i like it with lots of lovely advice from yo as and when i want it. if youre happy and you know it clap your hands, clap clap!
 
I have a round pen so none of my liveries would lunge anywhere else. Arenas can be totally ruined by people lunging in them, particularly if the footings have just been laid.

Anyone who isn't worried about this, quite obviously has not shelved out thousands to have it laid
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. The day you do, you'll be the same as everyone else who has paid out this money.
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Yes my round pen has floodlights but no-one ever comes and works their horse here once it has gone dark.
 
At the riding school, you are not allowed to lunge or loose school in either outdoor one, you can loose school (if not for too long) in the indoor one, but they have a round pen so you can lunge (or as Hemir likes to do, have a roll after our lesson!!)
 
we lunge in our school but after its been resurfeced i dont think we will be allowed to jump in it - they havent mentioned lungeing though... none of our horses really 'create' on the lunge though they mostly just trundle round so not like they are digging huge holes etc.
 
Yes we are allowed to lunge in our school although we get told to move around and not stand in one place the whole time. We are in the middle of having a lunging pen built, so that will be fab when its finished!
 
We are not allowed to lunge in the outdoor but we can jump in there. It can leave divots but the regular raking sorts those especially as so few people jump anyway!!
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We are allowed to lunge in the indoor which is tiny and the damage is obvious. No matter what the YO does the school is never flat. She has attempted to actually dig up the surface at one point to level it back out but nothing helps. It is quite shocking actually how bad it is even with regular raking etc.

The outdoor though is good and flat and thats predominantly where I ride s it is semi lit meaning I can ride in it in the evenings when no one else will and its far larger than the indoor which is only 15x30m.
 
Well, it's my school (and my thousands that paid for it) I allow myself to lunge in it (!) but I move around, get the surface levelled regularly and my horse behaves on the lunge! In the winter I prefer to lunge rather than get totally soaked! Also a quick lunge before hacking on modern roads is very useful. I don't understand this belief in the damage of lunging so long as the horse is worked sensibly it is no more wearing that a 20m circle - and without the weight of the rider. However, a lot of people's idea of lunging is more like hysteria to me!
 
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