emfen1305
Well-Known Member
This is based on a comment I read on another thread about lunging in between phases (I didn't want to hijack the thread). As some of you may know I have issues with my cob and his quirky drop shoulder spinning. I seem to have pinned it down a bit to a bit of excess mental energy because he hasn't done it if he's been in the field/lunged before riding. I was decked again on Saturday morning at home first thing trying to record my online dressage test (albeit it was pathetic fall, I should have stayed on and I did stay on the second time). I have a few local dressage and showing shows coming up (at the same venue but in different parts) and wondered what the etiquette of lunging in the warm up was?
For the showing shows it will be easier as we have the whole of the grass area so I can take him away from the designated warm up but for dressage we all warm up in a slightly bigger than 20x40 arena. I have checked the rules and it doesn't say no lunging but I will email the venue to ask but I wondered what other people thought about people lunging in warm up arenas? I would make sure we stuck to a small area, it's just to let him have his silly moment which is usually just some little broncs and a spook and I am hoping if I can get it out of him on the lunge then I might have more of a chance of staying on. I have asked for the earliest time slot for the dressage so there will be less people likely to be in the warm up.
Other than than the new saddle is coming today, my friend has lent me a suede seat saver and I have ordered some new sticky bum jods and a balance strap so fingers crossed!
For the showing shows it will be easier as we have the whole of the grass area so I can take him away from the designated warm up but for dressage we all warm up in a slightly bigger than 20x40 arena. I have checked the rules and it doesn't say no lunging but I will email the venue to ask but I wondered what other people thought about people lunging in warm up arenas? I would make sure we stuck to a small area, it's just to let him have his silly moment which is usually just some little broncs and a spook and I am hoping if I can get it out of him on the lunge then I might have more of a chance of staying on. I have asked for the earliest time slot for the dressage so there will be less people likely to be in the warm up.
Other than than the new saddle is coming today, my friend has lent me a suede seat saver and I have ordered some new sticky bum jods and a balance strap so fingers crossed!