{"id":38,"date":"2008-04-30T11:21:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T17:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-04-30T11:21:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T17:21:03","slug":"horse-training-to-lunge-or-not-to-lunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/general\/horse-training-to-lunge-or-not-to-lunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Training: To Lunge Or Not To Lunge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/authover.css\" media=\"screen\" \/>\r\n\t       <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/css\/simplemodel.css\" media=\"screen\"\/>\r\n\t          <script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n\tsrc=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery-1.7.2.min.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/jquery.simplemodal.js\"><\/script>\r\n           <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/trustjacker\/js\/authover.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\t\t\t\tvar jq = jQuery.noConflict();\r\n\t\t\t\tfunction openPopup(url,width,height,delay,useajax,iframe,exitt){\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\talert(url);\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\tauthover.configure({\r\n\t\t\t\t\tiFrameAttribute : {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"name\" : \"autFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"id\" : \"authFrame\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"src\" : \"http:\/\/wikipedia.com\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"height\" : \"100%\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\"width\" : \"100%\"\r\n\t\t\t\t},\r\n\t\t\t\tmodalContent : url,\r\n\t\t\t\twidth : width,\r\n\t\t\t\theight : height,\r\n\t\t\t\tdelay : delay,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupUseAjax: 0,\r\n\t\t\t\ttargetUseIframe: iframe,\r\n\t\t\t\tpopupIsRedirect: useajax,\r\n\t\t\t\texitAlertText: exitt\r\n\t\t\t\t});\r\n\t\t\t\tauthover.triggerModal();\r\nreturn false;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/script><p><strong>&#8220;To Lunge Or Not To Lunge&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andy Curry discusses this&#8230;\u00a0 follow along:<\/p>\n<p>Lungeing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s valuable.<\/p>\n<p>Some trainers use it.<\/p>\n<p>Some don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I do.<\/p>\n<p>Should you?<\/p>\n<p>Depends.<\/p>\n<p>On what?<\/p>\n<p>How you view lungeing.<\/p>\n<p>I know trainers who see lungeing as<br \/>\na forced control.<\/p>\n<p>Those trainers want to control the<br \/>\nhorse&#8217;s obedience through &#8220;just&#8221; his brain and nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Should you agree with that?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe&#8230;maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>I see it this way.<\/p>\n<p>When I lunge a horse, I&#8217;m still getting earned obedience<br \/>\nfrom him &#8211; it&#8217;s still getting into his brain that I have control.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m after anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Lungeing can serve many purposes.<\/p>\n<p>One is this.<\/p>\n<p>When we filmed Danie and Doug Hewlett<br \/>\nfor the &#8220;Reining&#8221; DVD, Danie started off by lungeing the horse.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because she&#8217;s using lungeing as a tool<br \/>\nto check her horse.<\/p>\n<p>Just like a scientist would use a microscope for his tool<br \/>\nof the trade&#8230;Danie and Doug use lungeing as &#8220;their&#8221; microscope.<\/p>\n<p>Your horse will reveal many things to you if you lunge him.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Danie says she wants her horse to walk<br \/>\nquietly around her when she first starts.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>First, a quiet horse is a calm horse.\u00a0 A calm horse learns<br \/>\nbetter, is more cooperative, and therefore trains better.<br \/>\n(and is also safer)<\/p>\n<p>But if he&#8217;s walking around, swishing his tail, shaking his<br \/>\nhead up and down, his ears are pinning,&#8230;then you need to<br \/>\nfigure out what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>If he&#8217;s walking around you quietly, then that&#8217;s a good<br \/>\nsign he&#8217;s okay with you, he&#8217;s likely not in pain, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Next, while Danie lunges the horse she will ask him<br \/>\nto walk, canter and lope.<\/p>\n<p>When she says &#8220;walk&#8221;&#8230;he walks.<\/p>\n<p>When she says &#8220;canter&#8221;&#8230;he canters.<\/p>\n<p>And so on.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSo guess what?<\/p>\n<p>If he doesn&#8217;t walk, canter, or lope when you ask<br \/>\nhim to&#8230;then you need to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Cuz he ain&#8217;t gonna know it when you&#8217;re in the saddle.<\/p>\n<p>You want to teach it from the ground first.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the confusing stuff outta the way and<br \/>\nget him knowing it before you get on.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just one of the valuable things about lungeing.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more that Danie reveals about lungeing.<br \/>\nIf you want to read about it, click the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/horsetrainingresources.com\/dvd-daniedoughewlett.html \" title=\"Danie and Doug Hewlett DVD\">Danie and Doug Hewlett DVD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another reason to lunge.<\/p>\n<p>When you lunge, you teach your horse to control his gait.<\/p>\n<p>You never&#8230;repeat&#8230;NEVER want him telling you<br \/>\nwhat speed he&#8217;s gonna go.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Do you wanna be in the saddle with him telling<br \/>\nyou what he&#8217;s gonna do?<\/p>\n<p>Uh-uh!<\/p>\n<p>Especially if you&#8217;re kinda new to this horse thing.<\/p>\n<p>You dang well better have him asking you how fast<br \/>\nyou wanna go &#8211; 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Andy Curry discusses this&#8230;\u00a0 follow along: Lungeing. It&#8217;s valuable. Some trainers use it. Some don&#8217;t. I do. Should you? Depends. On what? How you view lungeing. 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