How To Lunge A Horse Without A Whip

How To Lunge A Horse Without A Whip. The role of a lunge whip is to mimic a rider's leg against the horse's body. Keep tapping and pulling the line towards the left.

Once you have done a few laps in the walk, you can advance to the trot in the same way, and then move on to the canter. It’s often easiest to begin by lunging your horse in a counterclockwise direction, as horses are used to humans standing at their left side. Because of this passive body language the horse starts to walk and this is not want the handler wants and he energetically drives the horse forward with his whip.

First, (you may already know this) but when you begin to lunge, point your finger where you want him to go and cluck, say gid' up, or whatever que you would like to give him, now get the whip and swing in large circles toward his shoulder, almost touching it, so if he tries to face you, or come close to you, the whip will smack his shoulder and he will get the signal to back off a little (don't worry, it.

The horse should travel along nicely when you are in this position. Try not to lunge in big open spaces, which will invariably lead to the horse trying to drift away from you. Use your lunging whip to urge him to get to canter. Go to the horse and rub out the shoulder you tapped on.