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Longlining Lessons - £30/hr plus 45p per mile each way
Longlining is extremely beneficial for your horse and a great alternative to lungeing.
Longlining or long reining as it's sometime called is the use of two lines rather than the one which is used for lungeing. A saddle or roller can be used, I tend to use a saddle with the stirrup irons tied together with a stirrup leather. The lines then feed from the Dually or bridle through the stirrup irons to your hands.
With longlining you have more control of your horses speed and direction and your body language is less confusing to the horse than that of lungeing.
Some benefits of longlining:
*To introduce young horses to steering, stopping and becoming soft in the aids.
*Developing muscle/topline and balance
*Introducing horses to jumping and allowing your horse to find their own rythm
and balance before contending with a rider. It is also useful for the rider to
watch how they jump!
*Rehabilitation from injury
*An alternative to schooling/hacking - easy to do if you are limited for time and
a nice change for the horse
*Settling the exhuberant horse before you ride or exercising a child's pony.
*Spookbusting - confidently introduce your horse to scary objects from the
ground rather than ridden.
What to expect from your longlining lesson
We will establish your key goals and work towards them
You will have one-to-one tuition:
How to put on the longlines
Positioning
How to influence your horse through your body language
How raising and lowering your energy has a direct influence on your horse
By the end of your session I am confident that you will get 'the bug' and love longlining as much as me!
Longlining Intermediate
For those who have a good idea of basic longlining and would like to take it further we will:
Show you how to introduce Long Lines to a horse for the first time
Explain how to deal with longline issues such as ' a horse worried about the lines being put on' or ' a horse who kicks out with the lines'.
Show how longlining benefits specific behavioural issues such as napping
Demonstrate how longlining can be used as spookbusting - participants will longline horses through a spookbusting obstacle course such as longlining over tarpaulin
Show how longlining is great for introducing horses to new things such as jumping
Give you a demonstration on how the Pessoa Training aid works and how to build muscle and balance with longlining
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