Post by fimacg on Sept 24, 2011 16:05:38 GMT
I'm still trying to get to the bottom of Brave's evasion of throwing his head right up in the air and opening his mouth wide. To me it feels like a pain response.
Brave was at it again in a lesson on Thursday after jumping for the 1st time in about a month (only 2'3").
So whilst knowing the theory of checking a saddle tree I decided to do a direct comparison with Chompys which hppens to be the same make and size. I think there is a little bit of give if I push the left side of the cantle and pull the right side of the pommel a stright front to back seems ok, maybe slightly more than Chompys but only a little bit. but never having experienced a saddle with a broken tree I dont know how much you would feel (unless it was shattered in half).
Any way yesterday and today I rode Brave in Chompy's saddle and he felt much straighter, freeer through his shoulder and oddly his right hind - but is this a a result of the lesson or the saddle - also jumped him over a similar exerxise to what we were doing in the lesson and there was no nonsense.
Anyway the long and the short of it is that I plan to get it checked professionally ans see whether that is the cause or whether Brave wasjust being a prat as we were at my instructors yard where we haven't been since last year
Brave was at it again in a lesson on Thursday after jumping for the 1st time in about a month (only 2'3").
So whilst knowing the theory of checking a saddle tree I decided to do a direct comparison with Chompys which hppens to be the same make and size. I think there is a little bit of give if I push the left side of the cantle and pull the right side of the pommel a stright front to back seems ok, maybe slightly more than Chompys but only a little bit. but never having experienced a saddle with a broken tree I dont know how much you would feel (unless it was shattered in half).
Any way yesterday and today I rode Brave in Chompy's saddle and he felt much straighter, freeer through his shoulder and oddly his right hind - but is this a a result of the lesson or the saddle - also jumped him over a similar exerxise to what we were doing in the lesson and there was no nonsense.
Anyway the long and the short of it is that I plan to get it checked professionally ans see whether that is the cause or whether Brave wasjust being a prat as we were at my instructors yard where we haven't been since last year
