Wenn man ernsthaft mit dem Training beginnt, gehoert ein gut sitzender Sattel fuer Pferd und Reiter dazu! Was man ueber einen gut angepassten Sattel wissen muss wird hier im Detail beschrieben. Anatomie und biomechanik von Pferd und Reiter ergaenzen die Rechnung bei der Gestaltung und Passform des Sattels – lernen Sie hier wie!
Passt der Sattel für mich und mein Pferd? Read More »
As horse owners we choose to bring these amazing creatures into our lives with the intention of fulfilling a dream. That dream we all seem to want to fulfill is one of legends that is ages old. We have written poems, songs, and depicted their beauty and majesty in art
Saddle Fit: An Inconvenient Truth? Read More »
Horses that are ridden properly (not on the forehand) will greatly reduce the potential for long-term damage – with a soft hand, a soft seat, a soft mouth, and a soft back – yet absolutely uphill, straight, and through the poll without any pulling or kicking. Although of course it
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I want to refer to a recent paper appearing in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, which was written by a group of non-scientists who were involved in a study to look at the repeatability of SMS (Society of Master Saddlers) qualified saddle fitters’ observations during static saddle fit.[1] What
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My own horse was a victim of scapular damage caused by a saddle with forward facing tree points. I didn’t realize that this was the problem until many years later, when I began building saddles myself in Canada and was working with equine professionals on a more consultative level. At
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If you had a child with scoliosis, or one leg shorter than another – would you force them into wearing ‘normal’ shoes because you were under the misguided view that you could ‘force’ them to walk straight, to be even and to look balanced? I really don’t think that there
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