Achy foot riding, in certain saddle!

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I always thought/knew i was a bit wonky and blamed my achy foot on that. More recently I had swapped saddle and no more achy foot!
Had a saddle check recently and the old saddle has come back out of retirement, for other horse. (correctly fitted for myself and again another horse originally- had the same thing with him) and again I get an ach in my left foot. I'm fine riding in my other saddle which although fitted for the horse has never been assessed for me as such.
It's weird and annoying! I have the same stirrup irons and leathers on both saddles. Unfortunately the (way) better saddle is the one I have issues with. My cheap fits the horse well so will do for now is absolutely fine.

The only asymmertery I can see is that my right knee looks ever so slightly further back on the knee roll, I'm not sure why and I do analyse stuff like this! Its only a fraction.
Ideas?
 
It really shouldn’t be. It’s two years old if that. I bought it brand new, it had its bedding down check and an additional flock adjustment since.
The flocking was evenly worn as expected- I did ask both times!
 
Our hips are asymmetric and then we develop compensatory patterns around them, changing the soft tissue. This asymmetric body will interact better with some shapes of seat/interaction between seat and flap/panel, a few will truly stabilise us and usually mask/minimise asymmetries as the body works better off a stable base.

It could be too wide a twist, too narrow a twist, more or less bulk under the inner upper thigh (for instance a traditionally sewn in panel/sweatflap interface is bulkier than an independent panel such as the sport panel or whatever it's called from Dabbs), a double flap to a mono flap, a wider seat or a narrower seat, and the relationship to the stirrup bar. It's impossible to know why without an overall assessment, a bit like "why is my saddle slipping right"? :)
 
I'm wonky.

I do see a chiro regularly, but due to past injury, I am wonky.

Got told in a lesson once that my horse would end up lame in no time because of how wonky I am 🙄

Rode horse competitively at local level for years and horse never went lame. Now out on loan and maybe 20 years old now. Still sound.

I find the same. I find a Torsion hurts me. A barefoot is absolutely fine.

Weird.
 
I started riding as an older adult. I was taught to look down at my knees after mounting, to check they were equally placed and to adjust my seat accordingly. Ones right knee may always be slightly forward if one has mounted from the left. But I tend to sit with morre weight to the right and need to correct that, especially when riding in a Western saddle or with a loose girth.
 
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