>>We're glad to have the support from people in the saddle industry who >>validate what we've been saying. > > However, there's a piece I just read in a magazine by the Society of > Master Saddlers which says treeless is not necessarily better, and may > be worse, for the majority of horses.... : (
Treeless may not be good for every horse and every situation. But I think that my comment was more directed to good fit and his comments about icelandic saddles. > I'll see if I can find it online, and if not, I'll copy it out for you > to read. Thanks! I'd like to read it. It's interesting; I just picked up my copy of Ride magazine and it has two saddle fitting articles in it, by two different writers. Each one says something different about how to place the saddle! One says to put it in the sweet spot (so the rider is in the correct spot), and one says to keep it off the shoulder. In different places, the saddle will be "judged" differently as to fit. So.... how do these writers come to their conclusions? I think that one of the really big problems is the flair of the bars around the shoulder area. It came to be that the saddle should be slipped back to keep the shoulder free. Why? because the saddles weren't able to allow for free shoulder movement. But that put the rider in the wrong spot. How about making a saddle that does have correct flair AND allows the rider to sit in the right spot? Judy http://iceryder.net http://clickryder.com
