Woof wear boots - dumb question?

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This may sound dumb but my riding school taught me that woof wear boots do up the opposite to normal i.e the straps face forward. Now I don't know about single locking straps but I strap up my double locking ones so the outer straps face forward - and they look right but now i'm not so sure. I can;t see any logical reason for them doing up forward facing rather than backward facing but it is just something that has stuck in my mind and now I feel a bit silly cos i think this may be incorrect - can anyone help?
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Right (deep breath) this is what we tell the students:-

Boots traditionally do up with straps facing backwards so that (a) if the horse's action is close they are less likely to come undone and (b) so that when you tighten the boot you are applying pressure to the canon bone and not the tendons at the back of the leg.

Some of the double strapped boots come with instructions to say the bottom bit should go from back to front, ie you are pulling on the tendon, with the top bit from front to back.

I don't use this type of boot, but if I did I would put it on the other way, so I am not putting pressure on the tendon, but my top straps would end up the "wrong" way.

So the students are told to do them whichever way they like, so long as they can explain why! Hope this is clear!
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agreed this is what we were taught also...

I always do it with the 'double straps' - do the first strap correctly to avoid tendon pressure and the second strap then does up 'back to front'... so to speak.

AGHR it is muddling to explain in words LOL
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Woof boots are actually shaped to be done up with the first strap (whether they are single lock or double) facing backwards. Some boots aren't, hence the confusion (and the thing about double lock straps coming undone when going hunting in hedge country). Don't worry, you will know if you have done Woof boots up wrong, they will look very wrong! At least they're not elasticated straps, that'd be worse to put on wrong as they'd put more pressure on the tendons.
 
I had this confusion for a while; in the end I compared the shape of the boot with a 'normal' WW boot with only 1 set of straps, and came to the conclusion that the first straps face backwards and then top straps go forwards...
confusing tho innit??!
 
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