Saddle fit and Understanding the importance of Full Panel Contact. There are still a lot of ‘opinions’ on what constitutes a properly fitting saddle, but essentially a large part of proper saddle fit is simple common sense! On the other hand, if it were truly such ‘common sense’ you would think many more people would […]
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Saddle Fit: Dust Patterns and Sweat Marks One of the most misunderstood indicators of saddle fit – good or bad – are the sweat or dust marks left behind after a ride and when the pad has been removed. Logic dictates that the dust pattern on your pad and the sweat marks on your horse
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I have often been asked why the properly fitted saddles aren’t always flat on the horse’s back all the way from front to back – which makes them look like they don’t actually fit and will probably rock. Ideally, the saddle needs to slightly ‘rock’ at the cantle as the horse’s back engages. A slightly
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Probably at some point in our lives most of us – riders or not – have suffered from backaches, charley horses, sciatica, or even perhaps more drastically – slipped discs, herniated discs, or pinched vertebral nerves. You know how painful any of these symptoms can be, and you know how they can be treated -OTC
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Did you ever stop to think that about 85 – 90 percent of the world’s population is right handed? Nine in every ten people are said to be right handed, but of the remaining 10% who are left-handed, males outnumber females 3 to 1. On average, statistics even seem to support the longevity of right handed people – they are said to live nine years longer than left handed people. Many devices and appliances are made primarily for right handed individuals, such as refrigerators, scissors, microwaves, can openers, button down shirts, guitars, and even military rifles. In the past, many schools have forced children to write right handed. Left-handedness was seen as being undesirable. However, usually you can’t tell just by looking at someone whether they are right or left-handed, and we are not considered ‘asymmetrical’ because of this.
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