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Intro to the Saddle Conformation Toolkit + a walk-through of saddle trees and saddle parts, and the need-to-know info on how to balance a saddle correctly on a horse or a hobby-horse rack at the tack store.
What IS a twist, anyway!? Find out in this section, where we'll cover everything from seat length to balance points to working centers, plus stirrup bar placement, pelvic tilt, pommel rises, cantle shapes--and what all this has to do with the TWIST.
This section's about everything under your leg: flap length, flap angle, flap cut, knee and thigh blocks, monoflaps--and a special video just for the dressage riders about special considerations for blocks!
Just like with cars, sometimes what's under the hood of a saddle can affect your "drive experience." In this section, we'll cover the horse-oriented features of a saddle that affect your ride too: panel design and panel filling, girth billet placement, corrective padding, and more.
We'll talk about common saddle accessories like stirrup leathers, stirrup irons, saddle pads, even a bit about girths.
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2 Bonus Videos by Fan Request
As a thank-you to first-run participants in The Saddle Savvy Rider, I'll be taking nominations for topics you want covered in 2 bonus videos. Want a case study of how this stuff applies to a specific rider? Want deeper info about something we discussed? Got another zany idea that's relevant to evaluating saddles? Dream big, get the votes, and I'll make it!
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A live, online Office Hours Session for course participants
with Jen the Saddle Geek
Wanna talk directly to Jen the Geek about what you're learning about the saddles in your life? Bring your questions and any photos you'd like evaluated to our online, streaming office hours. If you can't attend live, you can send questions ahead of time and we'll upload the recording to our course page.
My name is Jen the Saddle Geek, and I've spent over a decade studying saddle design and the saddle market: talking to saddle fitters, talking to saddle makers and craftsmen, working with saddle customers who feel left behind or underserved by traditional models for buying a saddle, studying the 170+ English saddle brands on the market, analyzing market trends, going to trade fairs to put my hands on saddles that most shoppers only see in mail-order catalogs--and basically, just doing the work to understand the English saddle industry as well as I can.
I created The Saddle Savvy Rider because I saw a gap in the market: even customers who have awesome saddle fitters for their horses often have little to no knowledge of how a saddle should fit their own body. Even worse, some of them own saddles that fit their horses very nicely but don't fit the rider at all, which leaves the rider unbalanced and ends up hurting the horse anyway.
Our horses are best served by empowered equestrians who have the information they need to make smart decisions about saddles. That's why I built The Saddle Geek, where I can create 100% brand independent saddle advice products. I don't sell saddles, and I don't take kicbacks or sponsorships from saddle brands.
As a professional learning strategist by day, I spend all day, every day thinking about how people learn online and offline. In this project, I bring those two things together: helping equestrians make good decisions about how their saddle fits them, using the training I have as a teacher and instructional designer. Cool, huh?
Jen the Saddle Geek
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