{"id":804,"date":"2016-08-09T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/how-do-you-lunge-horse\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T11:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T11:19:57","slug":"how-do-you-lunge-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/how-do-you-lunge-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you Lunge a Horse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Learning how to lunge a horse is not difficult<\/strong>, provided the horse already knows how to lunge.<\/p>\n<p>Snap a lunge line onto your horses halter then step back towards the horse&#8217;s hindquarters and give a verbal clue for the horse to move (usually a cluck or smooch) Your horse should begin to move out in a circle around you. To maintain forward motion, your body should remain behind the horses eye as they move in a circle. How to lunge a horse is a skill best taught how by a professional trainer- at least your first few times.<\/p>\n<p>once you learn how to lunge a horse it&#8217;s not a practice that should be overused. Horses easily grow bored when lunging so unless you have a specific goal of teaching respect or improving a gait while lunging, it&#8217;s best not to lunge very often. Some people lunge a horse before riding to tire the horse out before mounting. This works temporarily to make the more more manageable, but the more a rider lunges to tire the horse, the more conditioned a horse becomes and will take longer and longer before being rideable.<\/p>\n<p>After you have learned how do you lunge a horse, you will be a better prepared horseperson.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Learning how to lunge a horse is not difficult, provided the horse already knows how to lunge. Snap a lunge line onto your horses halter <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/how-do-you-lunge-horse\/\" title=\"How do you Lunge a Horse?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4kBfF-cY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luckypony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}