What is long reining/long lining?

[ponies-R-gr8!!!]

hiya
Question in the title really What exactly is long lining/reining? What equipment do you need? How do you do it? I have lunged before but not long reined amd i would really like to try it but dont know how to do it

 

[Sammii]

It is basically lunging with another lunge line involved, which can be used either round the bum and therefore one hand is controlling the front end and the other hand is controlling from the bum.

Another way is for you to be totally behind the horse and encouraging him to move infront of you.

Scarlett 001 is the perfectionist famous long-liner!

This thread's good but all of her long reining threads are extremely inspirational!

http://www.newrider.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85580&highlight=skeeter+long+reining

 

[mayoguinness]

Always wondered what it was........need to learn all these terms that don't exist in the NH world

 

[svenja]

there's a very good book about long reining by Sylvia Stanier, which explains it very well. You may be interested in it mayoguiness, she trained quite a few horses bitless (there is a lovely photo of her riding one of the horses she trained in a halter). It explains the ideas behind different schools of longreining.

 

[Tots N Dots]

Just thought it may help but a pic of Pickle being long lined, I was multi-tasking taking photos and long lineing at the same time

 

[mayoguinness]

thanks svenja, I'll take a look

 

[Wally]

I have yet to see a NH person do anything driven, so to say it has no place in NH is a little strange, perhaps it does, but you have never done a driven workshop.

you cannot train a horse to drive without first training him to long line or long rein.

 

[Scarlett 001]

Scarlett 001 is the perfectionist famous long-liner!

Someone truly perfectionist (more than me apparently!) looked at that video in the web link you attached, and they found all sorts of flaws!!! They said my horse was crooked and I should have fixed it up!!! Considering we had only been long reining a month or just a bit more in that video, I was pretty pleased - guess I forgot to mention this fact to the person who was identifying the flaws!

I bought several long reining books (including the Stanier one) and found them either too advanced for a beginner, or a bit shy on information or quite disorganized in content. Good tidbits in all of them, but none of them became my bible of long reining. Have yet to find one...

 

[ClaireBear_nz]

I wouldn't mind having a go with long-reining with Tally, who whenhe gets upset, he over-bends and bounces up and down, which is probably down to my riding, but anyway.
Watching your vids Scarlett, has inspired me to have a go. I'm buying another lunge line this weekend, but I have no instructor who would have any idea about it. Also, what do you do with the rest of the reins?
(I'll take photos....but theres no way I'm teaching Sparks to long-line, unless I wanted to ski behind her as she took off on me)

 

[mayoguinness]

My friend learnt how to drive her pony NH style, she never mentioned long lining it though!!

 

[Sammii]

Someone truly perfectionist (more than me apparently!) looked at that video in the web link you attached, and they found all sorts of flaws!!! They said my horse was crooked and I should have fixed it up!!! Considering we had only been long reining a month or just a bit more in that video, I was pretty pleased - guess I forgot to mention this fact to the person who was identifying the flaws!

I bought several long reining books (including the Stanier one) and found them either too advanced for a beginner, or a bit shy on information or quite disorganized in content. Good tidbits in all of them, but none of them became my bible of long reining. Have yet to find one...

Ahh well I don't care, your my perfectionist famous long-liner and my inspiration, no matter what anybody wants to say

 

[cvb]

I have yet to see a NH person do anything driven, so to say it has no place in NH is a little strange, perhaps it does, but you have never done a driven workshop.

you cannot train a horse to drive without first training him to long line or long rein.

Wally, Silke drives/drove at least one of her Friesians I believe, plus there is a driving PNH person in (I think) Northumberland. But you may not count her as I think she drove prior to PNH so has added to it.

My understanding is that ground driving/long lining is covered somewhere in the higher levels (ones I've not got to ). But I've just used the principles from the level(s) I have looked at to work on long reining for both Fi and Rosie.... but again its probably not pure PNH (shucks)