How To Lunge A Horse In A Round Pen. Most pens do not have the correct soil composition to promote safe riding. I've never had a round pen, though i have had a corral or two, the type one works cattle in for sorting and shipping.
Our claydon static rubber lunge pens are designed for lunging and breaking. Just let your horse trot around the round pen. A round pen can be helpful in allowing your horse to move freely and work out any bucks or kinks.
It’s often easiest to begin by lunging your horse in a counterclockwise direction, as horses are used to humans standing at their left side.
It will also give their muscles a chance to warm up for your ride. See how responsive (or not responsive) he or she is. The pens are approximately 50’ (15.24m) diameter to allow you to work the horse in them, whilst still having a means of escape to the bottom of the pen. Basic lunging exercises that you may have practiced in a round pen, can be used as the very foundation of liberty training.