Lunge equipment - what do you use?

depends on what the horse needs, i use different things from 2 lunge lines, or side reins, or a pessoa all dependant on what the horses needs are!
 
Depends what you want to achieve. I usually use saddle & bridle with the reins looped in a knot & the stirrups removed or run up & the leathers doubled under for warming up & things like that.

If I'm lunging to achieve an outline etc then I'll use a numnah, schooling roller with the rings on & a lunge cavesson with side reins on.


ETS; As above, I'll sometimes use two lunge reins.

 
I want to develop his back muscles, bring his hindquarters under him and take his weight of his forehand. I'm assuming something like the Pessoa is the best way of achieving this.
 
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I have used a Pessoa on my boy to great effect- its really helped him develop his back muscles and he is working much much better now.
 
Chambon, would pick it over everything else everytime. Encourages long low outline, not forcing any of the muscles. I have done a lot of lunging with my ex racehorse in one and it has improved her beyond recognition.

For what you want to achieve, you will need to ensure you keep the horse going forwards (voice and lunge whip) above all else.

Many people will say would argue that two reins is best, but I just manage to tie myself up in knots so never bother with all that fuss!!
 
Hi, i don't like side reins, however love my shires elsatic training rein.. also use a ttouch body rope, which is two elasticated bandaes tied together and placed around the horse in a figure of eight, encourages them to lighten the forehand, engage the hindquaters, and lift the back without ever touching the mouth
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first time i ever put one of mine in it, it had the most amazing affect and he was working beautifully in a long and low frame.
 
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Chambon, would pick it over everything else everytime. Encourages long low outline, not forcing any of the muscles. I have done a lot of lunging with my ex racehorse in one and it has improved her beyond recognition.



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may be its just me but doesnt a chambon push the head down from the poll presure above???
 
saddle, bridle, lungeing cavesson and side reins. Ocasionally - balancing side reins when she is messing about. (Great long strips of elastic which attach to the girth, through the bit and then to the saddle - really encourage her to swing through her back, and because they are elastic, are not 'fixing'...)
 
I have been told to use a chambon as well, which i am going to if this ghastly rain stops! PinkTiger i also wondered whether it would put pressure on her poll.....
 
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I have been told to use a chambon as well, which i am going to if this ghastly rain stops! PinkTiger i also wondered whether it would put pressure on her poll.....

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have used one once and thought it sent conflicting messages to the horse in that it pushes from pressure above and then the pullysystem lifts the bit high in the mouth???????????????? i know people who use it and their horses are mostly on the forehand, if you had a very uphill horse mayb it wud work, but confuses me, so must confuse the horse a bit!!! i like it simple so my blondness can cope!!!
 
With reference to the chambon, it does need quiet careful fitting and should certainly not be tight to start with. It works by preventing the head going above a certain level rather than pulling the head down and the attachment to the bit encouranges the horse to remain on the vertical rather than poke its nose out. I actually use mine quite loose.

You do need to make sure that you push them on from behind or naturally the horse will drop onto the forehand as it is easier for them to drag themselves along by the front end rather than push from behind.

I do understand what you are saying but used correctly it will teach the horse self carriage. Mine is a typical croup high, downhill tb, but literally changed her way of going in front of me and you can really see the 'lift' coming through her withers
 
i know it sounds silly but i have found my boy goes best if you simply get use a roller then tie a tail bandage to the side, take it round his back end and tie it to the other side, make sure its not tight or chafing and it really encourages them to bring their hocks under. its basically a cheap and cheerful alternative to the pessoa or anything similar. =]
 
Bungie rein to simulate contact. It is on very loose so he can still have complete freedom with his head, but when I work him from behind and he drops into his natural outline he has something there. He cant lean on it as it is elastic so simulates "good hands" and at the same time I make sure that the back end is always working.

other equipment - bridle with roller or saddle if I am riding afterwards (rare).
 
As the others it depends on the horse, but with my share horse I use a Pessoa. I'd like to try him in a chambon actually, I think it might work on him.
At work I do a lot of lungeing in draw reins - as long as the horse isn't on the forehand in the first place they really work wonders on getting them to round and lift and step under.
 
Pessoa, roller, bridle and a lunge rein. Don't forget to put boots on the horse! I know mine would turn herself inside out in a Chambon, to begin with she was adamant she couldn't move in the Pessoa but time has brought her round.
 
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