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Rider Biomechanics: Lunging Exercises for Posting Trot/Part Three

Erica Poseley of Got Seat talks about safety features while lunging riders. Demo rider is Chelsea Ramm on Olivia. Transcription: When I do a lunge lesson I always have certain safety percautions in place and I just want to run through them so that when you lunge riders or you are being lunged make sure you use these precautions. the first thing is that whoever is the lunger is ideally a very good horseman; can read the horse; make the right corrections if you have to make any corrections. The second thing obviously is we want a horse like Olivia (the demo horse in this video) who is very comfortable on the lunge line at walk, trot and canter--in a good rhythm, stay out on the circle, not speed up or slow down and doesn't mind when, say, we do funny things with our arms, do circles (with our arms), lift our knee up and down--doesn't bother her at all. So, she's a very good lunge horse. Every. horse can be trained to be a lunge horse. It just takes time. So, that's something you can always develop. It is very important that you work the horse first before you put the rider on because even a quiet horse like Olivia could come out (of the barn) a little bit "happy" and needs a little "yahoo." So, let them kind of work down, get the energy out before you try to lunge somebody on the horse. The other thing is that I always have the rider have access to the reins so I use a jumping strap with a little clip on the end of it and then I make a knot (in the reins) and I put this clip through the knot and attach it to the front of the saddle. That way the rider always has access to the reins in case anything happens. Then I warm the horse up. If I'm going to use the side reins I'm very clear that the. horse has to be comfortable with side reins. I don't want to make them too tight. And if the horse is not comfortable then I'm not going to use the side reins. I also don't put the rider on with the side reins attached because often if you put your leg into the stirrup to get on and you have a side rein on and the horse raises its neck it could hit the side rein and be a little bit funny--maybe go a little bit back...so be careful with the side reins. Only use them when you know the horse is going to be comfortable. Warm the horse up with the side reins before. Another thing is ideally you would really like to lunge in something like this--a round pen--that's quiet so the horse is really settled in a nice quiet area or use a nice quiet riding ring without a lot going on. If any activity is happening that disturbs the horse then stop the lunging for a minute or have the rider have (take back) the reins. [You can] come over and take the side reins off the horse. Better to err on the side of caution the to let anything accelerate. And the last thing is: don't discipline the horse with the rider on board. So if the horse isn't behaving and doing what you want you don't want to make a strong correction with the rider on board--especially if at that moment the rider does not have the reins and does not have the stirrups. You want to be tactful. And if you need to, take the rider off. Then you can talk to the horse about behavior. If it works out, then maybe you can put the rider back on or maybe that day you don't have a lunge lesson... So, with those safety precautions in mind your lunge lesson should be really safe and you shouldn't have any issues. end of discussion on topic