Saddle Fitting: The Inside Journey

Another in the "Guest Blogger" series - this time from Nikki Newcombe, Sales Manager (and SMS QSF), Black Country Saddles.  This p...

Wow - hard to believe another year has come and gone, and harder to believe I've been doing this blog for two years.  It's been a lo...

Here's another "Guest Blogger" entry - this time, from my co-worker, Nancy Okun.  In addition to her saddle fitting work here ...

We have a customer who's been sending us videos of various saddle fitters in action.  I always enjoy seeing other fitters work, because ...

A few days ago, I received an e-mail from a young French blogger/dressage rider named Eugénie, asking if she could translate one of my blog ...

Some saddles seem to last forever.  I've seen some venerable relics some across my bench - Passiers and Frank Baineses and Stubbens of 1...

Good saddles aren't cheap.  All of the new saddles we sell cost more than my first horse - and to be perfectly honest, they all cost mor...

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm back at it after getting notices that my blog had been flagged for distrubuting malware.  If an...

Quite a lot, at least in my experience ... One questions I'm asked quite frequently is, "What's the best saddle?"  And m...

Customer service is lying in the gutter with multiple stab wounds.  It's going the way of the dodo, the bustle and the rotary-dial phone...

When I'm doing a saddle fitting, I depend pretty heavily on the rider to give me input and feedback.  I need to know how the saddle feel...

Most horses are sided, the same as most people.  Often, I find it's the left side that's dominant and bigger (and I have the templat...