home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!idcbbs!steve.king
- From: steve.king@idcbbs.com (Steve King)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: Re: western saddles
- Message-ID: <1520.1002.uupcb@idcbbs.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 05:30:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: IDC BBS - Alameda, CA - 510-865-7115
- Reply-To: steve.king@idcbbs.com (Steve King)
- Lines: 27
-
- To: twv@hpcss01.cup.hp.com (Terry Von Gease)
-
- TV | I have 2 Fallis saddles that I bought new about 12 or so years ago.
- TV | They have a flat seat and the stirrups are hung more forward than on
- TV | conventional western saddles. Where a conventional western saddle
- TV | drives you back into the cantle, the flat seat of the Fallis promotes a
- TV | sound forward seat. Hence the name 'Balanced Ride'. The rigging is a
- TV | really neat 3 point setup that prevents building up many layers of
- TV | latigo under your leg. Once you get used to these saddles, a
- TV | conventional western saddle with a built-up seat feels like something
- TV | from hell. The saddle was originally designed by Monte Foreman,
- TV | legendary western horseman, trainer, and teacher.
-
- Monte Foreman designed his Balanced Ride saddle to mimic the seat of a
- dressage saddle. I vaguely remember hearing him speak at a clinic years
- ago and recall him saying he used an old military model dressage saddle
- as a model. I also recall that the stirrups are hung more to the rear
- than on a regular Western saddle, to help avoid "water-ski" leg
- positioning. I was fortunate to have been able to try one at his clinic
- and found it very comfortable, although I'll stick with my Stubben,
- thank you. I also remember that Tex-Tan made a licensed inexpensive
- imitation of the Fallis for a few years.
-
- steve.king@idcbbs.com (Steve King)
- ---
- . KingQWK 1.05 # 93 .
-
-