Littlelegs
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No idea clava, but the us is a lot bigger anyway so easier to find like minded freaks with a bigger population. I've certainly seen something similar here, think it was a Facebook group a while back iirc.
No idea clava, but the us is a lot bigger anyway so easier to find like minded freaks with a bigger population. I've certainly seen something similar here, think it was a Facebook group a while back iirc.
In the US they have a different view as to what is acceptable.
http://www.horseforum.com/plus-sized-riders/anyone-brave-enough-post-98650/
Being overweight is fine, provided the horse can carry you happily.
I'd agree with this; one comment on the other forum was the the horse 'didn't once stagger with me', as if this is how you judge a horse is overloaded
This I find rather sweeping, I know I am heavy, I also know I am balanced, that I get my horses back checked regularly and actually know how to school my horse in order to develop his back muscles, I am fairly sure there are some lovely 9 stone riders on horses with weak backs that do a lot of damage. There is no black and white here. For the record I weigh 17 Stone and I know I am NOT too heavy to ride the horse I have.
I rarely get drawn into the heavy rider debates because they go no where, those that think I shouldn't ride aren't going to change my mind, I doubt I would change theirs and small minded people aren't going to make me sell my horse. This comment just made me boil.
Did anyone read as far as the discussion on people getting their "excess flesh", bra's and "pants" hung up on the horn of their western saddles?! I know I shouldn't but I did snigger/ cringe!
In the US they have a different view as to what is acceptable.
http://www.horseforum.com/plus-sized-riders/anyone-brave-enough-post-98650/
One actually looks to be sinking slowly into the ground.....
Just spat tea everywhere
Where is the evidence that very few horses can take an 18" saddle? I have known/do know a large number who do with no problem.
A tall person would need a longer saddle due to the length of their thigh bones.
In the US they have a different view as to what is acceptable.
http://www.horseforum.com/plus-sized-riders/anyone-brave-enough-post-98650/
Anyone noticed a lot of the horses have odd stances, and very few seem to be tracking up...
One actually looks to be sinking slowly into the ground.....
I only got to page 19 but the appy early on is kind of a perfect example. It looks miserable in every pic except the one where she is slimmed down.
Do you think you should be 'fit' to ride? Or fit really to do any of our chosen sports?
I also hate the way these debates always end up with people thinking its fat bashing, when its really down to the horses ability to carry you.
Absolutely I do, and I am an athlete hence knowing my body very well (my chosen sports include playing rugby north of England, county netball, hockey and basketball, badminton and horseriding). Fit and heavy aren't mutually exclusive, neither are fit and fat (though tend to be more so)
Pmsl! I think in the last pic on the first page 'me squashing dancer on a trail' the poster is using the 20% guide. Unfortunately, the wrong way round with poor horse weighing 20% of what she does.
Its just amorphous fat blobs just wobbling about