Bit Clinics?

[MysticOakRanch]

@polkadotedpony

@MysticOakRanch Is your GMO CDS? I’m in the Bay Area and am really intrigued by bit clinics from an educational standpoint but am pretty turned off by the fact that they seem like glorified sales pitches. I think my ideal clinic would maybe involve some horse skulls and mouth models with a lecture at the beginning showing how different styles of bits affect the mouth and the best way to make an assessment of your own horse’s mouth/head, followed by some demo rides with people trying different bits. Maybe that’s just not a very lucrative model and a pipe dream though : (

With the current options described I think if I was ready to make the jump to a double I would ride in a clinic since that seems pretty overwhelming, but until then I’d just audit.

Technically, yes, my GMO is CDS, but it is actually my chapter of CDS that is looking at this, for my chapter members and others in the area. So the goal would be that our members could try different bits. And there IS interest in it, but after hearing a recent review from some other people who did this in the area, I want to make sure it is going to be a worthwhile expense! It is a fairly expensive clinic (the two “clinicians” that I know of charge a per/ride or daily rate PLUS travel expenses), and my chapter would be footing the bill.

My chapter focuses on doing educational events for FREE for our members, it is one of our goals to provide worthwhile educational events every year (I am chapter chair, so I guess it is one of MY goals, hahahaha)…