[BladeRider]

Have you ever watched any of the Clinton Anderson shows? On things like that he would just make the horse start to lunge. IOW, when you ask the horse to whoa, if he doesn't, or doesn't stand till you ask him to move he immediatly starts them lunging, and not just a time or two around. Eventually the horse figures out, it's easier to pay attention.

We have been having attention problems when lunging too and when he did not pay attention I made him go more. That did seem to help, but as you said you need a lot of time to do that of which I have little. I do lunge him when I can. I do not have a round pen so have to go down to the neighbors to use theirs. It gives him time away from his buddies which he hates and has a hard time concentrating at first but eventually settles and catches on.

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Lunging is so boring for the lunger and the lungee:) I don't like doing it, but it does serve a useful purpose. But I think it can be over used and be counter productive.

I don't have a round pen. I'm not a big fan of them:), unless you use a lunge line in them.

Becky