Longeing, An Infrequent Tool (or it should be)

Longeing can be useful at times, however, for the reasons mentioned in the attached article, as well as others such as the horse is getting more fit than the rider, and the horse being forced to maintain the same bent posture on circle after circle without release, it should be a rare occurrence. When? The horse has a bite or cut where the saddle or girth go that needs to heal, before the first time you get on a horse you’ve never ridden before or the first time the horse has been ridden after being out of work for a long time or has been moved to a new farm if they are acting really fresh. Otherwise, you are working against your long-term goals by relying on longeing to deal with problems that are better dealt with in other ways. https://thehorse.com/186606/longeings-potential-effects-on-equine-joints/