Welcome! I'm so glad you're here!
Watch your FREE Saddle Savvy mini training right now - it's below. :)
GUESS WHAT:
There's an important saddle measurement besides the seat size that every rider should know.
Find out what it is and how to measure it:
If you enjoyed this free mini training and want to
learn more tips for matching saddles to riders,
check out The Saddle Savvy Rider,
which includes 30+ more videos with more tips and tricks:
We start on May 17, 2019. Reserve your spot!
This pre-launch price is more than 25% off our final pricing after course launch!
To get this awesome price, join us by Thursday, May 16 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time.
We're all passionate about fitting saddles to horses. But what about you, the rider? You deserve a saddle that fits your body, too.
The Saddle Savvy Rider is here to close that gap: to teach you what every equestrian should know about fitting a saddle to their human body.
Whether you already own a saddle or plan to buy one soon, this course will teach you how to pick up any jump saddle, dressage saddle, or all-purpose saddle from a rack and describe EXACTLY what you've got in your hot hands--and whether it's likely to work for your body.
Course access starts rolling out on Friday, May 17, with new course units published once a week for 5 weeks after that. It'll be the summer of saddles!
I'll show you tips, tricks, and techniques that tack-store owners, saddle fitters, and other industry pros use when they're looking at a new saddle. I'll break it into simple, easy-to-follow chunks, using online videos and support materials that you can "take to the barn" with you.
You'll even get a Saddle Conformation Toolkit of PDFs and instructions, to help you measure an important saddle in your life!
Here's what we'll cover in this course:
1 - Saddles 101
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.
2 - The Seat and Twist
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.
3 - Flaps and Blocks
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!
4 - Under the Hood: Panels, Girth Billets, and More
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.
5 - Saddle pads, leathers, and other fittings
We'll talk about common saddle accessories like stirrup leathers, stirrup irons, saddle pads, even a bit about girths.
That's a total of 30+ videos plus worksheets and support materials--for less than you'd pay for most riding lessons or shows! And that's before we talk about BONUS MATERIALS...
And because The Saddle Savvy Rider is BRAND NEW, we're celebrating our debut with awesome first-course-run BONUS materials for our first enrollees!
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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.
Meet Jen the Saddle Geek,
your host for the Saddle Savvy Rider
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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FAQ
Here are answers to some frequently asked questions:
I'm happy with my current saddle. Can I still take the course?
I reserved my spot in the course! What happens next?
What if I want way more comprehensive help, like a full done-for-me professional evaluation of my current saddle's fit + how it fits my horse + what I should buy next?
How long do I have access to the course?
My barn's Internet access is...not great. How's that gonna work with streaming videos?
What if I don't like the course? How can I get a refund?
Can't I just learn this stuff from a local saddle fitter or my trainer?
I'm so excited! Why can't it just start NOW instead of waiting until May 17, 2019?
I still have questions / you're not covering something I want you to cover!
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