Correct longeing is an art. It does not just mean making the horse run round in a circle; this would be no more than the task for an inexperienced person. Longeing may be used for three different purposes: 1) Exercising the horse. 2) Training the rider. 3) Training the young horse. It is on the longe that the foundation of obedience is laid and the horse is accustomed to being guided by having to constantly follow the turn required by the action of the longe.
~ Alois Podhajsky, The Complete Training of Horse and Rider

While Col. Podhajsky (a former Director of the Spanish Riding School who, together with General Patton, saved the Lipizzaner horses from the Nazis in WWII) could no doubt give me a lot of helpful hints about my technique, I bet he'd agree that there’s something almost meditative about doing the basic longe work with the horse. In this video, I’ll show you my basic longeing tools and talk about the use of the longeing whip, followed by some free-longeing in the round pen where I ask my horse to demonstrate very basic maneuvers―the halt, and a change of direction. I hope you’ll get the nice zen feel of the whole experience.

Note: I’m planning to use Toby for some equestrian vaulting in the future, so you’ll hear me using the voice command “brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” instead of “whoa”. I suspect that some people will look at me kind of funny out on the mountain trails one of these days when they hear me asking Toby―

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Brrrrrrr!
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I think I sound like a big momma bird. Or maybe someone very very cold.

Monty Roberts halter available at montyroberts.com