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Hi all,

If anybody has a spare 5 minutes, please can you fill in this quick questionnaire about bits, rein tension and consumerism. I have a small project to complete for my Equitation Science module, for which i have to 'invent' a new product for the market so I have decided to create a bit which can measure rein tension (unlike current products on the market, which currently consist of attachments).

The link to the 4 part questionnaire is https://surveyplanet.com/58b48c7b3d6c5c01456333c1

Thanks :)
 
Done. I suppose novice riders would be interested but surely any decent rider should be aware of the strength and quality of the contact without needing a gadget?
 
You need to explain exactly what you are designing to create an effective survey on it.

I wouldn't buy it as every horse will need a different contact type or their temperaments may differ - a hot light in the hand horse is most likely not going forward into the bit, potentially behind the bit, therefore the contact strength will be of no benefit.
Plus a rider should learn from feel and experience of how heavy their contact is, not from a gadget.

I think a better invention would be a pressure type gauge on riding boots that can measure the strength of aids used and how, could be useful in teaching beginners or people learning dressage movements and there aids :)
 
s4sugar said:
The questions are poor or naive.
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They are simple, but I don't see how they can be described as either poor or naive. It's a very simple survey, that's all.

I think there are a lot of very high level riders who would be shocked if they measured the actual lbs/in sq in that they put on the bars of their horses' mouths.

I'm too darned inconsistent to measure at times!
 
When I was having regular riding lessons, the issue of rein contact came up quite often. As a novice rider, I would have found a gadget that gave feedback about the force of contact very useful, preferably via musical tones - one each for sides to signal differences between left and right rein tensions. I believe it would have been instructive to compare the tension and how it varied from moment to moment between me and my instructor(s).

Techie detail: in my youth I built electronic circuits that turned voltage into frequencies (VCOs, or voltage controlled oscillators) for 'musical' purposes. However, I couldn't see an easy way to output discrete frequencies on a musical scale - which I thought would be more useful and 'listenable' than a continuously varying tone - and I had no experience in miniaturizing the electronics. Nowadays it would be a lot easier using digital components.

What I did try out was a mechanical, standalone rein tension measurer and simulator that Dr Tris Roberts had constructed and given to my instructors, Liz and Pat Rennie.

I wish OP success with her survey.
 
fburton said:
When I was having regular riding lessons, the issue of rein contact came up quite often. As a novice rider, I would have found a gadget that gave feedback about the force of contact very useful, preferably via musical tones - one each for sides to signal differences between left and right rein tensions. I believe it would have been instructive to compare the tension and how it varied from moment to moment between me and my instructor(s).

Techie detail: in my youth I built electronic circuits that turned voltage into frequencies (VCOs, or voltage controlled oscillators) for 'musical' purposes. However, I couldn't see an easy way to output discrete frequencies on a musical scale - which I thought would be more useful and 'listenable' than a continuously varying tone - and I had no experience in miniaturizing the electronics. Nowadays it would be a lot easier using digital components.

What I did try out was a mechanical, standalone rein tension measurer and simulator that Dr Tris Roberts had constructed and given to my instructors, Liz and Pat Rennie.

I wish OP success with her survey.
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Musical reins lol.Bob the notacob has enough problems concentrating already.Done
 
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ycbm said:
I think there are a lot of very high level riders who would be shocked if they measured the actual lbs/in sq in that they put on the bars of their horses' mouths.
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I seem to remember someone measured it as equivalent to at least the weight of a standard bag of sugar - 1kg - in each hand, for a steady contact. Does that sound about right?
 
fburton said:
I seem to remember someone measured it as equivalent to at least the weight of a standard bag of sugar - 1kg - in each hand, for a steady contact. Does that sound about right?
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It's a figure I've heard before. It's not a weight I would want to have consistently in my hand. If you've got that much weight in your hand, I can't see what the difference is between holding your horse together because it doesn't have self carriage, and holding it together to prevent power from behind disappearing out the front. Either way, surely if the horse can't do it without a kilo weight in your hand, it's not in self carriage?

Check out Charlotte and Valegro's Rio test. She's got a sight more than a kilo in each hand in that test, I reckon. (If I'm remembering the right test). Needs must in a medal situation, I guess.
 
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Done.

I'd be really worried about a kg of tension on each rein...that's what I'd call heavy handed. I was always taught enough tension to keep the reins straight to the bit, way less than a kilo.
 
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