What does 'VSS' mean?

[FinkleyGladiator]

As title really...
Have been looking at saddles on ebay

...on a website it says the saddle I'm looking at is 'vss'...what does this mean? Its hard to tell how forward cut the saddle is in the pics.
Thanks

 

[Britestar]

It may be a typo, and meant to be VSD - Very Slightly Dressage.

Not straight like dressage, but not as forward as a GP.

 

[BurntontheoutsideTurkey]

Might it be a typo for vsd (very slightly dressage)?

 

[JessPickle]

I always thought it meant very straight saddle, as in very straight cut?

 

[Mrs_Wishkabibble]

The Stubben VSS is Very Slightly Showjumping.
It is a forward cut saddle for jumping.
VSD is as above posts have said

 

[Bubblegum]

VSS ... very slightly SJ
VSD...very slightly Dressage.

 

[TarrSteps]

It doesn't mean "very slightly" anything because it's German.

Basically, "D" is a GP with a dressage tendency - longer flaps, less forward cut - and "S" is GP more towards sj with knee rolls and flaps set up accordingly.

 

[Brandysnap]

So it's not Very Silly Stirrups then? As i was taught by van Rupen Stucken Steinberg Offelberg-Ham-Burger. I knew i should never have trusted him.

 

[meardsall_millie]

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It doesn't mean "very slightly" anything because it's German.

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I'm glad you said that. I thought I was going mad. Very Slightly .....

 

[teddyt]

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Basically, "D" is a GP with a dressage tendency - longer flaps, less forward cut - and "S" is GP more towards sj with knee rolls and flaps set up accordingly.

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Almost right. A D is a dressage saddle. VSD is a GP with a dressage tendency. S is a jumping saddle. VSS is a GP more towards jumping.

And as tarrsteps said, its german, not very slightly anything!
German for jumping is spingend, hence the S. German for dressage is dressurreiten, hence the D.

 

[teddyt]

Forgot to say that the VS stands for vielseitigkeit (versitility) sattel (saddle). So the german version of our general purpose or GP saddle is vielseitigkeitsattel or VS. Hence a VSS is a GP with a jumping tendency and a VSD is a GP with a dressage bias.

 

[spookypony]

Vielseitigkeitssattel Dressur
Vielseitigkeitssattel Springen

as teddyt!

 

[Mrs_Wishkabibble]

Well you may be right but when we had a saddlery shop we stocked Jeffries, Stubben, Farrington and Wintecs.
Each one of those manufacturers told us it was "Very Slightly"
??

 

[teddyt]

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Well you may be right but when we had a saddlery shop we stocked Jeffries, Stubben, Farrington and Wintecs.
Each one of those manufacturers told us it was "Very Slightly"
??

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Thats because they dont know what it really means and 'very slightly' conveniently fits! Lack of knowledge of their own industry im afraid!

 

[TarrSteps]

Or they're pulling your leg. Or someone has pulled theirs.

Sorry about the "D" and "S" - I took the VS prefix as read, given the discussion.

I guess "very slightly" works well enough for the English market as far as understanding, but it is what it is.