>>> 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.
Even Cary, big as he is, and with knee and hip problems, can mount the Sensation from the ground. He normally mounts with a block, but he can remount on the trail with no more trouble in the Sensation than with a treed saddle. >>> 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. I think you're right, and when you think about it in those terms, I don't really want the saddle to be so tight to make it easy for mounting. It didn't take us long to adjust our mounting styles to be able to mount the treeless saddles just fine - and that's probably something we should have been doing all along anyway. I really do think that riding in treeless saddles makes you face some of your weaknesses that you can ignore in a treed saddle. Karen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] "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/
