wench
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no saddle atm so i thought i would do something different, have all the equipment? any tips?
long reining... where to start?
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Ezme
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Anything you can do under saddle you can do on the long lines. Its how we break our horses and give them something else to do, possibilites are endless! Have fun!
hellybelly6
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Presumably the horse is already backed?
If so start of with somebody leading him at his head and you go behind him with lunge lines and go in the school at first walking and trotting around and gradually the person at his head gots further away and eventually you and horse are on your own. Not the most scientific way, but it worked for my horse and me.
If so start of with somebody leading him at his head and you go behind him with lunge lines and go in the school at first walking and trotting around and gradually the person at his head gots further away and eventually you and horse are on your own. Not the most scientific way, but it worked for my horse and me.
SALLYT
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Hopefully this might help, I found this on another website!
Long reining is a very useful way of ensuring that the horse understands the aids for walk, halt, left, right and trot well before a rider is put aboard. It also gives the trainer the opportunity to take the horse out onto quiet lanes or fields for practice, which benefits the horses training and understanding. A horse who cannot be ridden due to an injury, but needs exercise can also be long reined.
The horse should only be long reined when it is already lunging successfully, this is so that the horse understands the voice commands that you are about to use.
How To Long Rein
Start off by lunging the horse as normal on both reins, this ensures that the voice commands are fresh in the horses mind. Then once warmed up Add the outside lunge line making sure that it never drops down below the hocks otherwise should the horse kick out it could get its foot caught up in the lunge line. You may need to lunge like this for a few days or weeks until the horse gets accustomed to the feel of the second lunge line around its body.
Once the horse is settled you then ask the horse to halt, taking your time slowly walk keeping both lunge lines up off the floor and above the horses hocks until you are behind the horse or very slightly off to one side so that the horse can still see you. Then give the walk on command, you should have a light feel on both lunge lines and at first ask the horse to walk on and halt at regular intervals and then progress to steering to the left and to the right, and when confident with both steering, stopping and turning then progress to trotting.
Exercises
Practice steering in and out of cones and stopping the horse at exact marker and then when you are confident in the arena you can progress to the outside world. Pick a quiet day and an enclosed field to begin with so that the horse will gain confidence in you and what you are asking them to do. Start off with 10 minutes of long reining at the very start and then progress up to 20 and 30 minutes.
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Long reining is a very useful way of ensuring that the horse understands the aids for walk, halt, left, right and trot well before a rider is put aboard. It also gives the trainer the opportunity to take the horse out onto quiet lanes or fields for practice, which benefits the horses training and understanding. A horse who cannot be ridden due to an injury, but needs exercise can also be long reined.
The horse should only be long reined when it is already lunging successfully, this is so that the horse understands the voice commands that you are about to use.
How To Long Rein
Start off by lunging the horse as normal on both reins, this ensures that the voice commands are fresh in the horses mind. Then once warmed up Add the outside lunge line making sure that it never drops down below the hocks otherwise should the horse kick out it could get its foot caught up in the lunge line. You may need to lunge like this for a few days or weeks until the horse gets accustomed to the feel of the second lunge line around its body.
Once the horse is settled you then ask the horse to halt, taking your time slowly walk keeping both lunge lines up off the floor and above the horses hocks until you are behind the horse or very slightly off to one side so that the horse can still see you. Then give the walk on command, you should have a light feel on both lunge lines and at first ask the horse to walk on and halt at regular intervals and then progress to steering to the left and to the right, and when confident with both steering, stopping and turning then progress to trotting.
Exercises
Practice steering in and out of cones and stopping the horse at exact marker and then when you are confident in the arena you can progress to the outside world. Pick a quiet day and an enclosed field to begin with so that the horse will gain confidence in you and what you are asking them to do. Start off with 10 minutes of long reining at the very start and then progress up to 20 and 30 minutes.
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Ezme
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The horse should only be long reined when it is already lunging successfully, this is so that the horse understands the voice commands that you are about to use.
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Sorry to dissagree but all our horses start on the long lines. They learn voice commands as soon as they arrive in hand just during day to day handeling. I prefer not to lunge at all, i do not think going endlessly in circles does any horse, let alone a young one any good, plus they end up tilting thier head. Ok our horses are driven (ridden later) but starting processes are the same, aiming towards a balenced, calm, obedient horse. I also am not a fan of having the outside rein (if on a circle) around the hocks, it just jabs them in the mouth so we use a driving pad, although a lunging surcingle works just as well, so the reins are over the back. Just my opinions and how we do things to give you another option.
The horse should only be long reined when it is already lunging successfully, this is so that the horse understands the voice commands that you are about to use.
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Sorry to dissagree but all our horses start on the long lines. They learn voice commands as soon as they arrive in hand just during day to day handeling. I prefer not to lunge at all, i do not think going endlessly in circles does any horse, let alone a young one any good, plus they end up tilting thier head. Ok our horses are driven (ridden later) but starting processes are the same, aiming towards a balenced, calm, obedient horse. I also am not a fan of having the outside rein (if on a circle) around the hocks, it just jabs them in the mouth so we use a driving pad, although a lunging surcingle works just as well, so the reins are over the back. Just my opinions and how we do things to give you another option.
hellybelly6
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I think lunging puts too much pressure on the inside legs and back.
Long reining is better
Long reining is better
SALLYT
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No your are probably right I just saw this and thought it might help the original poster. I know very little about long reining , was just trying to be helpful!
Ezme
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Coolies. It is just as valid a point of view tho