how on earth can people ride without gloves!

Tnavas said:
NO The OP should NOT have to deal with the comments about her riding or how she holds her reins - she did not ask for this type of advice.
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No you're quite right she shouldn't. However ...

Don't get at her - she did not ask for advice about her riding JUST HOW TO DEAL WITH THE BLISTERS. So please peole be pleasent if you haven't anything cinstructive to say DON'T HIT SUBMIT!
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... what a terribly dull and boring forum this would be if people ONLY answered the specific question any poster asked. There would be literally a handful of posters answering questions. There would not be people frequenting this forum at all hours of the day and night, from all countries throughout the world. If that's the type of internet experience some of you prefer then I suggest you use GOOGLE to find out the best way of helping blisters heal.
 
In fact, I'm going to Google this now so that the OP will have her answer and won't need to deal with peoples banter. I'm sure it will take me less than 5 minutes to find sites with various solutions to her blister problem.
 
The only time I use gloves is they are required to compete or to keep warm. Otherwise I NEVER wear them. My hands are not rough, calloused or blistered, no problems. I tend to have light hands when I ride & I think if your hands are sore after riding then something is wrong between you & the horse.
 
Perhaps instead of giving advice the OP obviously does not want to hear, how about answering her original question, 'How on earth do people ride without gloves ?'

I won't bother as I get the feeling the OP isn't interested in other people's experiences that don't endorse her own.

FWIW, I have some lovely gloves for riding in. Sometimes I wear them and sometimes I don't.
 
To answer the original question, I feel the same about riding in gloves. I just can't do it unless its freezing cold because they're usually either too baggy on my fingers and wrinkle in the wrong places or the cotton ones I find have seams inside that feel lumpy on my fingertips.

My three have soft mouths and rubber reins though so I've never really needed gloves, which is probably why I've never gotten used to them. I can't ride in continental reins because they make my hands blister just from the shuffling fingers/changing gaits even with minimal contact. I'd rather ride in rubber reins than gloves so that's what I do! Can't imagine I'd feel safe on a horse strong enough to make my hands sore either (but that's what happens when you ride the same horse for years on end!).

Horses for courses as they say :)
 
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horserider said:
Perhaps instead of giving advice the OP obviously does not want to hear, how about answering her original question, 'How on earth do people ride without gloves ?'
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Oh gosh I became so engrossed in the OP stating that the only question she wanted answering was how to help heal blisters that I forgot about answering the question in the title of this thread!

I'll answer. I ride without gloves very very easily. Even though I've been riding for longer than many members on this forum have been alive I do not have calloused hands, mine are soft hands, both in texture and for the horses I ride! I'll say no more except that OP you have no idea who posts on this forum. It would be arrogant of you to assume every poster is an idiot pony patterer who has never made anything of themselves in the horse world.
 
Neither do i! Rips your hands to shreds, i nearly always get a blister if i foget them. I even wear thin ones on stinking hot days!
 
Op rather than getting stroppy with those who aren't answering the question maybe try responding to those who have been both nice and have answered your question.

It takes time to type reports and it is bloody irritating when you answer the question and are then ignored in favour of bickering.
 
Hmm I dont ride in gloves, unless the temp is cold so my skin is cold. I lift weights and have an outside job but I only have callouses on the palms no where else!

I guess I dont have to haul my horses around or have any that lean on me!
 
Caraphernelia said:
my manners are not 'dire' thank you very much. Having numerous people slagging you, your horse and instructors off does not get you in the best of moods. I asked for useful tips (thankfully some people have actually given) not an opportunity to be slagged off. as for the comment of 'someone's tired' yes, yes I am. I have had just about the worst year possible and having numerous people telling you your an awful horse person and shouldn't be allowed near them does not help after everything that has happened this past year.

I wrote this thread asking for advice on getting rid of blisters and not providing a slagging off opportunity for all the keyboard warriors, therefore anyone doing that got told their 'advice' was not wanted. I also asked people many times to keep there opinions to themselves and stick to the original question of blister cures.

To the people that have given me cures, thank you very much. I have tried a couple of them and they are getting better.
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thats the trouble with the internet. You dont always get what you ask for. You cannot tell people what to and what not to say Im afraid, Its a public forum.

The art is picking and choosing the advice you want and not getting upset and throwing your toys out of your pram at the advice you dont as without wishing to offend, your temperament seems just as sensitive as your hands.

perhaps white spirit works for that as well? :D
 
For years and years the only time I rode with gloves was when competing on my gelding, who would pull like a train for the first 40 km or so - I mostly endurance ride.

For everything else I hated them, because it just felt clunky, unless it was the middle of winter.

About 10 months ago I started with a different dressage instructor, who picked up straight away that I let the reins slip through my fingers. Wear gloves, was her recommendation.

Now I feel naked without them. :rolleyes:
 
I fell off when I wasn't wearing gloves once and skinned all of my knuckles...was picking bits of arena out of the cuts for hours afterwards. Very unpleasant. Never again. That is all.
 
For the after care, you need to apply hand cream and massage into skin. Wear a bit thicker layer with glove on at night. It should help. if your bilster heals with scars, use scrub to exfoliated dead skin, eventually the scars will be take away.
 
TigerTail said:
Hmm I dont ride in gloves, unless the temp is cold so my skin is cold. I lift weights and have an outside job but I only have callouses on the palms no where else!

I guess I dont have to haul my horses around or have any that lean on me!
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I'm with this. If a riders hands are blistered etc from riding without gloves maybe, just maybe a rider should consider what they are doing to a horses sensitive mouth & consider other ways of getting the results they want. The horse won't be getting unguents & creams for his soreness, cracks blisters etc.
 
Gosh, people can be so rude and condescending on here!
I wear gloves because I LIKE wearing them, not because I need to wear them, obviously that makes me a mere mortal compared to people who can hack/school/jump any sort of horse with only dental floss for reins :)

OP, maybe you need to look at the type of reins you are using?
I use half rubber reins (sometimes called dressage reins) as anything else is too clumsy and rough for me and I feel I can't get a proper hold of the reins which can then make my hands sore.
 
some cheaper rubber reins are awful for cutting hands.esp on the 3rd finger....
I only use leather ones now
For blisters keeping them clean is key. Warm salty water is good and shouldn't sting if its dilute enough.
Hope they get better soon!
 
I hate riding in gloves, I find can't feel the reins properly through them which probably makes me more heavy handed.

The only ones I'll ride in are fingerless, purely for warmth value. For the record, I've only ever known blisters on my hands once; that was on a tank of a cob at a riding school that used to yank her head down for grass every 30 seconds, and had full rubber reins.

Oh, and in reference to another post, having to pick tarmac out of my fingers after falling on the road with no gloves still hasn't convinced me to wear any.
 
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POLLDARK said:
I'm with this. If a riders hands are blistered etc from riding without gloves maybe, just maybe a rider should consider what they are doing to a horses sensitive mouth & consider other ways of getting the results they want. The horse won't be getting unguents & creams for his soreness, cracks blisters etc.
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so everyone who gets blisters when not wearing gloves obviously cant ride and are hurting and pulling at their horses mouth :confused:
 
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