How to Hold a Whip While Free Lunging a Horse

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Kelli and this is Covey and on behalf of Expert Village, we are going to show you my options and techniques on how to free lunge your horse. So when you are in this kind of setting and you are trying to free lunge your horse, your horse may not be to willing to want to go out there and do any work. As you can see, my horse does not want to do anything. She wants to stand here in the middle with me. So we are going to have to use a whip. So I'm just going to really slowly pick up this whip; I don't want to startle her in any way. I'm going to get behind her at her shoulder and I'm just going to get the whip behind her. I'm just going to cluck really gently and I'm going to make her go out on the rail. So I'm going to make sure I hold my whip in my left hand cause she is going in the right direction. I would switch around and hold it in my right hand when she was going to the left. I'm just going to follow her around. I'm going to stay at her shoulder and keep my whip really nice and low because I just want her to kind of putt around right now. That is what happens if you get a little bit too far off them with the whip. They don't want to turn around and go the other way. So you want to make sure you stay right in the middle of your horse right at the shoulder and you are holding your whip. You also want to make sure you keep your whip pointing out them so they would stay at the rail of the round pen to keep them from coming in the center. So that is where you want to hold your whip when you free lunge your horse. "