Saddle Fitting: The Inside Journey

PUT THE IRONS DOWN Recently, I received a saddle from a lovely woman I had worked with in my previous saddle fitting life.  I'd sold...

ROLEX Guess who's been asked to go to Rolex ? Yup.  Me.  WOOT! Nikki Newcombe asked me if I'd be interested in coming down to ...

Thought you all might be interested to see a rough outline of what will be covered in the saddle fitting course April 11-13, 2014.  There wi...

Well, I've certainly been threatening long enough (since 2012, according to  this ), and it's finally come to fruition (WOOT!!).  Ap...

The shop at the Pullman Family Farm, summer 2012 This year has brought some pretty dramatic changes to my life. This summer, we had to...

I was reading through the  Chronicle of the Horse 's 75th Anniversary issue (yes, I'm a month behind on my magazine reading, as usu...

Given the present state of the economy (can you tell that's been on my mind quite a bit?), a lot of folks are finding their "discre...

Long-distance fitting requires a fitter to rely heavily on the use of the template.  How each fitter interprets the template, however, can v...

Twist width is probably one of the most frequent "rider-fit" issues I run into.  As with so many facets of saddle fitting, it'...

One of the challenges of doing a blog is coming up with new and pertinent content.  Now that I'm starting on my fourth year of blogging ...

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.  For want of a shoe the horse was lost.  For want of a horse the rider was lost.  For want of a rider ...

Just got a heads-up from Nikki Newcombe at Bliss of London. If you're interested in going to the London premier of the movie W ar Horse ...

Having been in this profession for more than a decade, you'd think I'd have heard the bulk of the available info - both good and bad...

Just wanted to give you all a heads-up about an article on shims and correction pads that I just finished for  Trail Blazer magazine .  It...

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The difference between hoop trees and standard trees has been discussed here quite a bit, but I finally have a bare hoop tree (pulled from a...

Saddle fitting is, at best, an inexact science.  Sometimes the laws of geometry and physics do not apply; sometimes the logical, rational ro...

Weekday mornings are usually pretty busy at our house.  My first precious cup of coffee is consumed while feeding humans, feeding dogs and c...