Hi Vicka, >i feel like an outsider myself -- i still use a saddle with a tree (and >from iceland, at that :) i have a question for all you treeless users, >though -- how do you deal with mounting/dismounting? when i was at >centered-riding camp (on a narrow, unevenly-muscled, high-withered ottb)
I have used at least 12 different treeless saddles and also use the Balance treed saddles which have a wide enough tree to give the horse room for the shoulders. It is my experience, that while Dana recommends mounting from a block and I like to do so anyway for my horse, that I can mount with less slippage with the Sensation than with any other treeless saddles and without any special padding like a DM pad or burr pad etc. It is my experience that a treed saddle is best to mount from the IF the tree is fairly tight which keeps the saddle in place. You know that in the military they used to say that you weren't a rider until you could mount without a girth and then ride 100 miles. They generally used horses around 15Hds. The ease with which a person can do this depends on several things - most importantly their athletic spryness, the persons height relative to the horses; the width of the horse and of course how desperately you need to get on and can stop laughing as you try. :->> Robyn Icelandic Horse Farm Robyn Hood & Phil Pretty Vernon BC Canada www.icefarm.com -----Original Message----- -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.9/623 - Release Date: 1/11/2007 3:33 PM "The greatest enemy of the truth very often is not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic." "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer [] The video every Icelandic Horse owner should have: http://IceHorses.net/video.html [] Lee Ziegler http://leeziegler.com [] Liz Graves http://lizgraves.com [] Lee's Book Easy Gaited Horses http://tinyurl.com/7vyjo [] IceHorses Map http://www.frappr.com/IceHorses [] IceHorses ToolBar http://iceryder.ourtoolbar.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IceHorses/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
