and suberpanel - saddle still slipped back.
So molly has now lost so much weight that I ought to buy a new dressage girth.
she looks about right - it's really the grass belly that's all gone - and nowhere near dropping too much condition (especially as they've gone back onto a field that's had a month's rest and loads of rain!) but in the meantime, a tad tedious.
and I'm not sure that a new girth won't end up too short and catching on her elbows, so maybe I'll try putting new holes in the girth straps instead!
but of course, having worked that out, I'm no nearer knowing whether the new pad with shims is going to be any good or not, as i can't differentiate between slippage caused by that and slippage caused by girth not being tight enough....
anyway, the end result is that we end up pear shaped as the saddle gently moves backwards resulting in my feeling tipped forwards at which point I realise this and get off (and Molly points it out to me as well....)
on the other hand, the good news from today was that i got on twice. first time was relatively easy (new pad on, first time to mount, only once round the stool). Second time took a bit longer, presumably because molly thought she'd already done enough for the day, but eventually managed it whilst staying cool, which is pretty good for me so clearly i'm improving as well LOL.
So molly has now lost so much weight that I ought to buy a new dressage girth.
she looks about right - it's really the grass belly that's all gone - and nowhere near dropping too much condition (especially as they've gone back onto a field that's had a month's rest and loads of rain!) but in the meantime, a tad tedious.
and I'm not sure that a new girth won't end up too short and catching on her elbows, so maybe I'll try putting new holes in the girth straps instead!
but of course, having worked that out, I'm no nearer knowing whether the new pad with shims is going to be any good or not, as i can't differentiate between slippage caused by that and slippage caused by girth not being tight enough....
anyway, the end result is that we end up pear shaped as the saddle gently moves backwards resulting in my feeling tipped forwards at which point I realise this and get off (and Molly points it out to me as well....)
on the other hand, the good news from today was that i got on twice. first time was relatively easy (new pad on, first time to mount, only once round the stool). Second time took a bit longer, presumably because molly thought she'd already done enough for the day, but eventually managed it whilst staying cool, which is pretty good for me so clearly i'm improving as well LOL.
4 comments:
Saddle shouldn't be doing that. It should, however, sit behind her shoulder muscle. Has she built that up so it's pushing the saddle back?
I had an International dressage trainer once "reset" my saddle because she said it was too far forward. Needs to clear that muscle. If that's where it wants to end up sitting, perhaps that's where it really belongs and you need to wedge up the front so it's balanced.
Otherwise, I'm not that keen about trying to fix a saddle's fit with all kinds of pads. All right to level it, but not to make it fit.
it's a treeless, jean, a heather moffett. i was only seeing if i could get the moulded panels to work, but i can't so back to the suberpanel.
there has been a lack of grass (supplementary haylage at night!!!) and she IS thinner - although she might have built some muscle as well!
So it's not a fit problem, but a padding problem. You'll get it sorted, then. Shouldn't be too difficult. If the superpanel works, stick with it. No sense in fooling around with success. *G*
Good with the mounting :-)
C
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