Anyone elses saddle give them a sore daisy??

kerilli said:
If the pelvis is upright (as it should be) then the, ahem, 'fork' shall we say, is in contact with the front of the saddle, no? Light contact, hopefully...
Although I had a friend whose dressage instructor always told her to "******* the saddle" in canter (I am not kidding, and have heard this elsewhere too!) so maybe that is the problem... riders thinking they need to use their daisies when actually they shouldn't!
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Hmm... nope no contact on daisy/foofoo... used to be when I was young as no-one told me how to sit properly but not had a problem since.

We are all built differently I can't disagree with that kerilli :) would love to know what that instructor said though... :eek::eek::eek:

Just sit on yer butt ladies! If that doesn't work, new saddle methinks!
 
tallyho! said:
Hmm... nope no contact on daisy/foofoo... used to be when I was young as no-one told me how to sit properly but not had a problem since.

We are all built differently I can't disagree with that kerilli :) would love to know what that instructor said though... :eek::eek::eek:

Just sit on yer butt ladies! If that doesn't work, new saddle methinks!
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that is so funny, it ****** ed even though I already had. It was a four letter word beginning with F. No kidding.
I am not sure that trainer had a clue about how a pupil should sit and ride, tbh...
 
kerilli said:
that is so funny, it ****** ed even though I already had. It was a four letter word beginning with F. No kidding.
I am not sure that trainer had a clue about how a pupil should sit and ride, tbh...
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I know loads of instructors who recommend "shagging the saddle" in canter. I am often overwhelmed by the desire to assault them with large sticks :mad:
 
Slave2Magic said:
You see, I occasionally have the opposite problem so to speak:0
I sometimes get 2 blisters between my bum cheeks! Not every ride and I have no idea what makes the difference. It stings like hell though when it happens.
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Oh god me too! I was reading this thinking I was the only one with the problem at 'the other end' so to speak...also like you, not every ride though. One of the great mysteries of the universe! :o
 
JFTD said:
I know loads of instructors who recommend "shagging the saddle" in canter. I am often overwhelmed by the desire to assault them with large sticks :mad:
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"Grind those piercings" came into use locally for those who consistently sit with pelvis tilted back after a lady who was a new rider confessed that her, um, "intimate" piercings were getting a bit sore from the saddle.
 
kerilli said:
that is so funny, it ****** ed even though I already had. It was a four letter word beginning with F. No kidding.
I am not sure that trainer had a clue about how a pupil should sit and ride, tbh...
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JFTD said:
I know loads of instructors who recommend "shagging the saddle" in canter. I am often overwhelmed by the desire to assault them with large sticks :mad:
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No way!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek: That is so wrong on so many levels!!! :o
 
TigerTail said:
Try a Heather Moffett Vogue soft tree :D Most comfy thing for lady bits ever

Ive been riding bareback (the horse before anyone gets smart :o) and thats horrendous - specially when you lean forward to get off and knck the REALLY sensitive bit on the wither bone:eek:
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See this is why you have nice comfy cobs :D:D My girl has a little bit of withers to help you balance but is nice and soft with no sticky up back bone :D:D:D:D
 
jemima*askin said:
"Grind those piercings" came into use locally for those who consistently sit with pelvis tilted back after a lady who was a new rider confessed that her, um, "intimate" piercings were getting a bit sore from the saddle.
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*shudders*

urg.
 
jemima*askin said:
"Grind those piercings" came into use locally for those who consistently sit with pelvis tilted back after a lady who was a new rider confessed that her, um, "intimate" piercings were getting a bit sore from the saddle.
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Eh? So you were told to sit on your daisies/foofoos? Urgh indeedy!!
 
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tallyho! said:
Eh? So you were told to sit on your daisies/foofoos?
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Nope, but it was a graphic way of reminding people not to slump in the saddle with their pelvis collapsed backwards! The whole point being that if you did sit too forward you'd have problems yet you mustn't collapse backward.
 
jemima*askin said:
Nope, but it was a graphic way of reminding people not to slump in the saddle with their pelvis collapsed backwards! The whole point being that if you did sit too forward you'd have problems yet you mustn't collapse backward.
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Ahaaaaa... yes too far back is a slovenly way of riding... seen all too often.

Why can't ladies ride like ladies anymore :rolleyes: maybe we should bring back the whalebone corset :D:D:D
 
Haven't read all the way through, so apologies if already been mentioned but is it the saddle or the way you are sitting. i.e on your fork rather than on your seat bones?
 
.... a sore "daisy" ????
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Never heard that one before and the mind boggles at what you'd all think of a "daisy prong"!!! Might account for some smurks when I said it the other day - it's just a weeding gadget especially designed to remove Daisies from lawns without too much damage.

On to saddles ....soreness .... wherever it is can be all absorbing and you don't need much in my experience for it to become a real nuisance - though this area obviously not a problem for me - I have had many occurences of chaffing caused by military webbing in hot countries where rubs can get infected very quickly - and for anyone who thinks walking like a duck is funny - it ain't. I used to use Detol oinment which was mildly antiseptic and then blather on Vaselin if the pressure point can't be avoided, add in some extra padding somehow.

This piccy is very similar if not exactly like my mare's one in which I sat for many thousands of hours - it killed me in the beginning.
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.... as it's rather high at the pommel for male anatomy - the more I sat into it - with longer leg the worse I ..... "bruised my fork" was the way it was described at the School!

However, all of that paled into insignificance by me riding in short boots once - oh, only once! Every so often the leathers gave my calves a little pinch, completely innocous for a while- but then a little red patch came up on both of them and it felt as if all the hounds of hell were trying in get in or out of my leg - never did work out which but it sure did hurt.
 
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1stclassalan said:
However, all of that paled into insignificance by me riding in short boots once - oh, only once! Every so often the leathers gave my calves a little pinch, completely innocous for a while- but then a little red patch came up on both of them and it felt as if all the hounds of hell were trying in get in or out of my leg - never did work out which but it sure did hurt.
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I am so glad we've moved on to safer territory! ;) ;)

I forgot my half-chaps for work once when I did work riding on a p2p yard. After doing 2 or 3 lots (they did 10 laps each of a field with a 1 mile circumference, so, 10 miles each) I had worn two holes on the insides of my calves about the size of a 50p piece. skin completely rubbed off, down to flesh.
I have never forgotten my half-chaps again...
no daisy soreness can possibly equate. it was indescribably painful.
 
Right, I'm getting really confussed with all these daisys, foo foos and gooches (what the heck it that! I know someone with a horse called Gooch!). Someone is going to have to do me a diagram!
 
Have to agree with TallyHo - perhaps some of you need to tilt back a little.

But another thought though - I remember "things" felt quite different after I had my first son (many years ago) - the geography down there changes after childbirth - just wonder if this might have anything to do with some of your problems??

Not that I'd really thought about it that much but I think I must be a "tilter" because when I've been riding much longer than usual it's my butt bones that feel it.
 
I really don't get this at all. It's not just that I must have a comfy saddle, I've ridden loads of different horses in loads of different saddles. I always wear thongs or g-strings, & quite often ride in cheap leggings or jeans. And I can't say I've ever had an issue. I've ridden a few high withered large moving sorts bareback, that admittedly I wouldn't fancy going for a 3hr fast paced hack on without a saddle, but otherwise I don't get it. Unless you are a bit frustrated in your personal life, I'm not sure why you'd be grinding your foof on the pommel. Incidentally I think albions are wonderfully comfy. I'm also probably one of the few people who have rode in a safari cub (briefly) as an adult, & I'd imagine if anything would cause foof chaff that would, but even that was fine. Except I am sure for looking very silly.
 
Discussed this with a friend on the phone as you do... we had a bit of giggle when she remembered a girl at her riding school got enormous amounts of pleasure from her saddle!!!!!!
 
kerilli said:
I am so glad we've moved on to safer territory!
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Hahaha.... mind you ... suggestive title eh,eh, nod's as good as a wink eh? Oh god I've just written wink in this context!!!!!!

I had worn two holes on the insides of my calves about the size of a 50p piece. skin completely rubbed off, down to flesh.
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I frequently carried a large pack on a supposed lightweight frame thingey - together about 80lbs plus further weight in chest pouches and my rifle - this mark you in 85 degrees and 100% humidity. Once I noticed soreness that kept getting worse on collar bones and shoulders - followed my usual medics - two days later I was having a bit of R&R with me shirt off and one of the other guys asked if I knew that there were big maggotty things crawling out of me - and people wonder why I preferred the Artic!!!
 
I wouldn't have thought so sidesaddlegirl, I've had lots of close horsey friends, including fellow live in grooms where we knew everything about each other, & we've openly discussed far more intimate/embarrassing things at length, yet foof chaffing from a saddle wasn't ever brought up.
 
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