I am hoping I am not the only one!
Take two lunge lines that when you longrein with, you notice that on doing a circle you shorten the inside rein a bit for bend. That's fine-i think, but on going large you don't let it out, you shorten the outside to match.
OK, you say to yourself that's not really a big deal, accept that after the session you are in fact too close to the horse. Now that IS a major big deal, I know someone who has three broken ribs and a shattered wrist when this happened and the horse kicked out last week.
Now fair enough I know my cob, but, she is still first and foremost a horse with a blind spot. I have been trotting to close when she stopped dead and I tripped and rammed into her backside, boy was I lucky! So to solve that I cut the lines to the correct (ish) length, now I know instantly when I shorten because I also have a you should have your hands here knot on both.
I used to do a lot of nh type stuff with a 12ft line and i cringe now at how close to the kick zone people are encouraged/trained to be.
Take two lunge lines that when you longrein with, you notice that on doing a circle you shorten the inside rein a bit for bend. That's fine-i think, but on going large you don't let it out, you shorten the outside to match.
OK, you say to yourself that's not really a big deal, accept that after the session you are in fact too close to the horse. Now that IS a major big deal, I know someone who has three broken ribs and a shattered wrist when this happened and the horse kicked out last week.
Now fair enough I know my cob, but, she is still first and foremost a horse with a blind spot. I have been trotting to close when she stopped dead and I tripped and rammed into her backside, boy was I lucky! So to solve that I cut the lines to the correct (ish) length, now I know instantly when I shorten because I also have a you should have your hands here knot on both.
I used to do a lot of nh type stuff with a 12ft line and i cringe now at how close to the kick zone people are encouraged/trained to be.