Why can't you ride in wellies?

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Will probably get shouted at for this but oh well!
I have some hunter wellies that I quite often ride in, I know they look a bit scruffy but they have a heel and are a good fit, I wouldn't ride in wellies without heels or that flop around. SO are well fitting wellies with heels ok or are all wellies bad?
 
Because of the thick tread on the bottom of the boot. This could cause your foot to catch on the stirrup tread & because the boot is too wide meaning if you fell, your foot could get wedged & you could get dragged &/or kicked as a result of your foot being trapped.

This is why riding boots have narrow toes & smooth soles
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I am smiling because I have just come in from schooling in my wellies - my field is like the Somme. However, I use those big, wide tread endurance stirrups with cages, which I guess makes it OK. Plus, when I say schooling, I am not talking Carl Hester stylee - I am an endurance rider after all!
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I ride in my wellies, my feet are good, the stirrups rarely move from the ball of my foot. The stirrups are more than wide enough to cope with the boot.

Oh and if I feel like it, I ride in trainers..

and Id like someone to tell me otherwise =o)

Lou x
 
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I ride in my wellies, my feet are good, the stirrups rarely move from the ball of my foot. The stirrups are more than wide enough to cope with the boot.

Oh and if I feel like it, I ride in trainers..

and Id like someone to tell me otherwise =o)

Lou x

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The big book says no
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In fairness, it forbids it in the good old Manual Of Horsemanship & most other books but I think this refers to what I said above. Ordinary fillis irons & big old wellies & you having to wedge your foot in the iron.

I wouldn't ride in wellies as my ankles are less than perfect & so the movement in them isn't great so I like to feel that my foot could release from the stirrup iron if anything happened.
 
I used to ride in my hunters all the time. The problem is that the grip is almost TOO good, and with their chunkiness as well your feet are so much more likely to get stuck in the stirrups - as I found to my detriment when a pony I was mounting shot off while I had one foot in the stirrup....
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Wouldn't do it again!
 
Ive gone into hibernation for the winter. And what with the glorious weather today i thought id pop my head in and annoy some people lol... Was I missed?!

hehe!!!
Silver, try some Landmaster wellies from Dunlop, lovely and wide, warm comfy and last even longer than Hunter wellies!!!
Lou x
 
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I ride in my wellies, my feet are good, the stirrups rarely move from the ball of my foot. The stirrups are more than wide enough to cope with the boot.

Oh and if I feel like it, I ride in trainers..

and Id like someone to tell me otherwise =o)

Lou x

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I let my daughter ride in wellies...
I have ridden in mucker (no heel) and even my best fluffy wuffy boots
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You can ride in what you like, it is your choice. Whether it is safe or not is another question, but your health, your risk
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Unless you are competing do as you like! Unless there are those bloody annoying welly police in the bushes waiting to issuse a ticket, why not
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I ride in wellies. I know I shouldn't but I do, so there. I don't let the children ride in wellies, but they have been known to ride in muckers, with heels. We've all got safety stirrups, and when our yard is surrounded by a sea of mud and cowsh1t, I ride in wellies, OK?
Oh and I eat butter and drink unpasteurised milk as well. So I doubt if I'll live long enough to break my neck :0)
 
My wellies aren't wide and they have never got stuck in the stirrups. My stirrup treads are so worn anyway I don't think anything could get stuck on them. Nice to hear I'm not the only rebel welly rider!
 
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I constantly ride in wellies....

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And you also get constantly told to wear your NEW riding boots
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(well their not that new any more, but they were at the time)

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I've been wearing them lately
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But wellies are just easier
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Yeh, but you used to be able to ride in them for years without them splitting, now, if you are half capable of keeping your heel down, it's bye-bye fifty quid wellies.
Really annoys me. I used to love my hunters.
 
The Princess Royal used to sometimes (in quagmire years) go around Burghley, Blenheim, etc. in a specially made pair of black Hunter wellies). If you can get around those in Hunters, they can't be that bad to ride in!
 
a newbie but I used to know someone who rode in flipflops (I'm not kidding), hotpants and a straw hat -admittedly it was in Africa but she was European.
 
I just bought some Ariat Mudbusters and they are lovely, and designed for riding as well as being very comfy to do everything else in. I didn't trust buying another pair of hunters again
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I don't wear anything else in winter, unless I go competing or have a lesson. Ride in whatever I have on my feet if I don't have any 'proper' boots
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a newbie but I used to know someone who rode in flipflops (I'm not kidding), hotpants and a straw hat -admittedly it was in Africa but she was European.

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and that's overdressed for the polo grooms in Florida!
 
I've ridden in pretty much every type of footwear, except high heels! I've even ridden in sandals when the urge was too great. Combine with my 3/4 length summer trousers in baby blue, I probably looked an idiot, but you know what it's like when you just *intend* to check on the ponies and then go home, but it's such a lovely evening, warm and summery...

My wellies are a French ladies fit, so are narrow enough to easily slide in and out of stirrups. More bulky are my Caterpillar boots. However, the latter are the only chance I have of retaining foot circulation in winter - no other boot has worked so far and I'm afraid my health would suffer without them!
 
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