Parelli Dressage Saddle

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Looking for one of the Wintec Wide saddles for a friend and an add comes up for a Parelli Dressage Saddle.

This interested me, surely the words Parelli and Dressage cant be put into the same sentence.

From what I have seen of Parelli, i.e. riding in a rope halter, bareback and lifting your hands to stop, it seems a weird thing for them to make.
 
rockysmum said:
Looking for one of the Wintec Wide saddles for a friend and an add comes up for a Parelli Dressage Saddle.

This interested me, surely the words Parelli and Dressage cant be put into the same sentence.

From what I have seen of Parelli, i.e. riding in a rope halter, bareback and lifting your hands to stop, it seems a weird thing for them to make.
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Linda Parelli does quite a bit of dressage I think.
 
Good lord the sales pitch for this saddle is something else! :eek:

Normally, English saddles have a rather narrow gullet so they pinch horses on the withers and shoulders and a have a relatively small weight bearing area.

The Parelli Fluidity saddle has a wide gullet, greater weight distribution area and hugs the horse's back.
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Normally, the seat of an English saddle positions the rider more forward and on their seat bones often causing an arched, tense back. This puts the weight more forward on the horse. This sort of saddle has a narrow "twist" which facilitates the accepted position of "knees in, toes in".

The Parelli Fluidity Saddle helps position the rider on their Balance Point, an area between the seat bones and the tailbone. This places the rider's weight more towards the hindquarters of the horse. It has a much wider than normal "twist" which encourages riding with knees more open promoting a naturally draped leg which wraps around the horse without tension. The Super-Wide model has a feel very much like riding the horse bareback as if there is no "twist" at all.
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I don't know about you but to sit with my weight between my seat bones and tail bone means I have to tilt my pelvis so my spine is not neutral.

Normally, English riders tend to pad and lift their saddles at the back which positions the rider above the horse's back and displaces the weight more to the forehand.

The Parelli Fluidity Saddle is lifted by shims at the front which promotes a deeper and closer seat and displaces the weight more to the hindquarters.
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Surely this would equal "place rider's weight on weakest part of back" :rolleyes:

Normally, English saddles come in two or three widths.

The Parelli English Fluidity Saddle comes in two widths: Standard and Super Wide. The Standard width is already much wider than most normal English saddles. The Super Wide is wider still. The reason for this kind of width: unless the saddle is wider than the horse, the horse will not be able to develop more muscle than he already has and he will not feel enough freedom when he moves. Our saddle foundations utilize uniquely flowing shapes that are proprietary. We learned that a saddle tree's width is only one important factor that can lead to your horse's approval. Many "wide" saddles still hurt. Subtle changes of the angles, attitudes and dimensions of the bars all along the length of our trees mean a great deal of difference to your horse.
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Amaranta said:
barge and pole
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My thoughts exactly :cool:



eta - apparently it's between a dr and jumping saddle :eek: I would not fancy jumping anything worthwhile in that :eek: Apparently choosing a jumping or dr saddle is one of the flaws of traditional saddles... Isn't that what GPs and VSDs are for? :p
 
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Sooo, you buy a saddle that doesn't fit for an enormous amount of money, then fork out another great wad of cash for a pad to make it fit?:rolleyes:

Wonder if they sell old rope too....:D
 
Not surprisingly the show the world once again why they are classed as utter idiots....


I wouldn't want to buy one single thing produced by these people, I'm not saying that all their products are bad... I quite like their rope haters and their long rope things, but giving those individuals a penny of my money... Not in a million years:mad:
 
I don't want to offend anyone here but I feel like this thread is kind of pointless. If you don't like the saddle, no one is forcing you to buy it! Personally I don't like Parelli, although some of their techniques, if you modify them, can work. I would not buy any of their saddles or anything but I don't think that ripping them apart on here is going to help. If someone was looking into this there are so many anti-Parelli articles that explain the problems that I honestly don't think it helps to go into it anymore.

If you don't like it, don't buy it! Yes it's ridiculous but there may be the odd horse that these saddles fit. And if someone wants to and can pay $5,000 for one, good for them.

Just my thoughts, please don't kill me!! Just thinking it's very well known and a little too overdone. :o
 
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