What strident nouns or noise are used for lunging a horse?
I have a new rescue horse and tried him out on the lunge..he seems to know what to do, but he doesn't respond properly to standard western nouns. Are there alternate commands that are used on the lunge?
there is something wrong, go posterior and retrain him...try longing for respect by clinton anderson, works wonders!
Generally the words for the gaits are used, also clucking and kissing sounds as well. Generally, whether you want the horse to go faster, you say the words like "trot" or "canter" pretty fast and in a lively manner. If you want them to slow down to trot or saunter, a lower and slower voice like "trooooot" and "waaaallllk" are used. Just get your horse used to voice commands and this may minister to:)
like alot of the others kiss for canter, cluck for trot as well as words but to stir from an canter to a trot i say a word (whoop) and pull slightly on the lunge line whether they don't listen then i pull harder.
Some of the other posters have given you the most commonly used terms.
You can in fact use any words you want. Just use them consistently and the horse will learn what you want.
Good luck
Answers: Well, there are the enthusiastic cues that people have already mentioned, but you seem to hold indicated that these don't work well for you. Sometimes, people train the horse to change gait due to the position of the lunge whip, as in:
Low=walk
Medium height=trot
Higher=canter
Or, some people crack the lash to speed them up, which is definitely not the method I would recommend.
I have used kiss tumult for canter,click noise for trot but I also use the words,walk, trot, canter as back up nouns. good luck
yes going from halt to walk or walk to trot is a click or two and canter is the kissing sound and to be in motion down from any gait is a twidder sound and stop is obviously whoa. My trainer trains vaulting horses and i scrutinize her and those are the cues they use for vaulting horses so that is how i trained my horse to lunge with those cues horses swot them really fast.
