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I mean people said all this about CDJ 5 years ago.

I'm talking literally about my own experiences (as a layperson, neither saddler/saddle fitter nor trainer) riding in saddles that did...

Amen. The perfect saddle for me, the lightbulb moment and something that was part of me spending a LOT of money on demos for a brand...

Horses are ill prepared, skeletally, to carry a rider. We owe it to them to load each individual rider onto each individual horse, in...

A At least part of the reason I started to lose interest in riding (aside from my medical issues) was because I met the right saddle...

Yeah, it might have been much more subtle, but NUB was using every trick in the book to keep him under control. The origins of modern...

Even to a layperson it's obvious that saddles both old and new vary hugely in their suitability for both individuals and people in general.

Interesting as I'd remembered it as all wb types. And yes, saddle design has gone hand in hand with the poor decisions made with...

Something occurred to me in regard to 'rehab' of these riders that are abusing their horses with so much compression and chair...

Those horses winning are bloody horrid to ride. Huge bouncy paces. The very best way to deal with it is to go back into a chair seat...

You see an exaggerated version of exactly this too in some Arab endurance racing. The extreme leaning back onto the horses loin at...

Well yes, but they don't all do it. And I didn't always do it even as a twice a week rider on horses that had too much movement *for me*...

You do see lots of riders with ostensibly good 'riding conformation' in a chair seat nowadays - is this the main cause? I remember...

And it makes a fair bit of the industry worthless as GP dressage is the paradigm. I remember, about 20 years ago, Hilary Vernon used...

I agree to a certain extent but I think she looks more braced, it looks 'more' everything - I am sure she is struggling in some ways too...