Sorry lunging again..... Keeping a horse out that wants to come in!!

Well I can tell you what worked with my grey recently (it's probably not how you're meant to do it ;) ).

If she started turning in, I poked her with the end of the whip on her shoulder as soon as I could reach her. She only did it once. :D She's a smart cookie.
 
As soon as you see it happening, crack the whip and point it at the shoulder saying 'out, away' or whatever word you want to use for it.
 
Faracat said:
Well I can tell you what worked with my grey recently (it's probably not how you're meant to do it ;) ).

If she started turning in, I poked her with the end of the whip on her shoulder as soon as I could reach her. She only did it once. :D She's a smart cookie.
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This..and also step towards the horse to teach it to maintain a distance from you when it tries to move in or change the rein
 
Flick the whip out at her shoulder. No worries if it hits her, she's a big rough tough horse. She can cope.

She knows you're just throwing the ship about and aren't going to hit her. Prove her wrong once or twice and she'll respect it more.
 
spike123 said:
use a 2nd lunge line to give more control.
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I'd go for this; I used to have problems with my very clever, now veteran, who started coming in when he'd had enough, I couldn't do anything about it, tried everything else mentioned here with the whip. Got a second lunge line, never looked back. Only took a few times of lungeing with it until he realised he couldn't get away with being a cheeky whotsit, and lunged fine with one after that :rolleyes:
 
I guess with the two lines if he started to come in you'd pull on the outside lunge line to keep him out? How did yours react to line being around their bum xx
 
Supertrooper said:
I guess with the two lines if he started to come in you'd pull on the outside lunge line to keep him out? How did yours react to line being around their bum xx
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Well firstly he'd need desensitising to two lines, longlining, in straight lines before starting some circles.

However its your body language you need to address, you must be becoming passive with your stance/energy and he's therefore thinking wayhay work times over.

Horses are great teachers for this, just been teaching my mum today how to lunge and as soon as she gets infront of the movement mine stops. If she gets further infront she tries to turn around, if she inadvertently waves her free arm (i dont need a lungewhip) she speeds up etc.

Get someone to video you doing it, bet you'l learn something watching it back ;)
 
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