Lunging, sometimes known as longing, is a very useful training tool. When lunging a horse, the horse moves around the handler in a circle. The handler controls the horse by using aids that ask him to move faster or slower, bend on a circle or move closer to or farther away from you.
From wikihow.com
I have tried this before, unsuccessfully. Corvette would just come in to the middle, try to follow me around or just stand there looking at me. She doesn't really get the idea of it, and gets irritated and stressed when she doesn't understand what I am asking of her.
But it is much easier when you have help, so yesterday me and Linda made a joint effort. She was on the ground and I was sitting on Corvette. I tried not to move, and not to give her any aids apart from gently pushing her out with my inner leg when she tried to go in to Linda.
And it worked! It went really well! We only kept at it for about 20 minutes as we wanted to stop while we were on top (and it started raining). If we keep doing this I think she will get the idea of it even without a rider on her back, and we will be able to use this form of exercise as a complement to riding.
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