How To Lunge A Horse Properly. These steps were designed to ease the horse into the exercise, and raise the intensity as desired before toning things down towards the end. If you want to have the horse lunge right, the lunge line and lunge whip should be in the opposite hands.
By lunging with a bit, the mandible of the horse is placed inwards, when the handler asks for flexion with the lunge. 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. This means you’ll need wraps, orthotic boots, or splint boots.
Tell the horse to move out by using your voice command for “walk” and giving the lunge whip a little flick at the horse’s rear.
However, for a correct flexion and also bending the upper jaw needs to be positioned inwards, which is only possible when the mandible is placed outwards. When your horse is traveling in a circle to the right, the lunge line will be held in the right hand and the whip in your left. Lunging a horse properly, especially for the first time, requires you to follow a specific set of steps. Hold the lunge line to the left.