Good afternoon this is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and I am here with Frauke Murphy and her horse. This is the second or third lunging session she has had with us and it has been about four weeks. I have a previous video that you can view to compare, she was very high headed and had a fat belly with no back engagement whatsoever.

Now we can see that she is starting to swing very nicely over her back. Frauke sometimes lets her get a little too close to her, so she is going to move her out on the circle again. We want to keep contact with that line when we are lunging the horse so that we can keep contact with her mouth. Just like riding: the whip is your leg and the line is your rein to the horse’s mouth. Teaching the horse to maintain a steady contact is very important. To move out from the leg is to move out from the whip so that when you get on it will already know how to do that. If you compare this video from the one four weeks ago you will notice that the horse was very hollow with it’s head straight in the air and very u-necked and was pulling herself along.

This is Will Faerber from Art2Ride and we will see you next time! Thanks for joining us!

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