Saddle Fitting/fitter problems

[Theocat]

Another view on this - saddle fitting isn't an exact science (I'm sure we've all known something that goes better in the saddle that absolutely doesn't fit) and I think as owners, when sonething goes wrong, we're more likely to move straight on to a new fitter rather than build a relationship and talk through issues.

Of course this isn't universal - some saddlers are just rubbish, and some are just impossible to talk to - but it's more common than not that we find a saddle doesn't fit, and go on to a new saddler instead of working through it with the old one... we need to build relationships with saddlers just as we do with farrier, vets and instructors.

 

[FfionWinnie]

If you and the horse are saying it doesn't fit and the saddle fitter is saying it does fit where can you go in that relationship!

 

[Theocat]

Well, of course, in that case it's a crap fitter - but if there's evidence the saddler hasn't seen (talking generally here, not about the OP!) there still often seems to be a tendency to move on to a new one instead of talking to them!

I've had two saddlers that I wasn't even able to talk to - both very well respected and very scary. No.problems with the fitting, but I changed becaue I found them very hard to talk to. I dread to think what would have happened if there had been a problem.