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I must admit I'm starting to find this particular conversation distasteful. Hinting at your own omniscience while dismissing (a)...

Agreed. SBloom's posts are always well thought out and come from a place of good intention and thoughtfulness. Not so some others...

And there's me thinking we normally agree on so much.

Not sure they're real photos so apologies but this just popped up on my timeline.

Really? If I've had a stroke and started writing in French could someone let me know? 😁

Which bits don't you understand? Be an easy load for your horse to carry. If you can't find a saddle that you're not fighting, you...

Me too. I've found a better way. £1500 for a brand new saddle and all accessories and a bit of my time to custom cut some rider shims...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...