Can I ask you a question, and you understand that I'm not trying to be offensive:)
I just don't get spending all that time lunging for exercise, but not riding because it's boring not having alot of room??? I find lunging boring. Even if I had only an arena to ride in which I really don't like, I'd rather ride there then lunge, especially to do ground poles and cavalettis.
Becky
Heh... no it's not offensive at all. I know it's lazy to be too bored with it to go to the trouble of saddling up and riding just to ride around the pasture. We should do it more than we do, just to have them in better shape when we do get the trailer. And really ecurbh could use the schooling. I had thought about whether he should take some lessons (probably also when we get the trailer unless there is someone who will come here) just so he can force himself to learn some of the horsemanship skills that he won't get on trail. It's sometimes easier to learn and take direction from someone who isn't a spouse, and someone who is a better teacher than myself.
But back to lungeing.... I enjoy lungeing, I can watch their movement a lot better than I can under saddle if there is something I am looking ~for~... I don't lunge Bay a lot, because of his feet, any more. I lunge the pony and ask her for a lot of precision and I challenge her with complex tasks and jumping on the lunge, because I ~cant~ ride her.
I was only really interested in lungeing Cyn to teach her how. I don't really ~want~ to ride her much, if at all, I want to leave her for ecurbh, unless there's a need for me to see or correct something.