Stopstopstop…She didn’t know how to put on her own CHAPS? Now that is funny. You’re saying someone stood there, buckled the belt around her waist, and zipped her legs in? Like she was a mannequin?
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Yup, it was rather comical. She’d stand there and one of us grooms would zip her chaps down her legs for her. I believe she was able to buckle them around her waist herself.
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Terrible advise, unless you want every professional you work with to put you on the bottom of the list of people they go the extra mile for.
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I have to agree that trainers and the like are not your friends unless you are; but for most of us, we go, have our lesson and go home and don’t spend a lot of time socializing. There was one woman I know who thought she was a friend of the trainers’ and was always loaning her equipment or helping her out - doing tractor work for her on weekends, loaning her horse trailer to store furniture when she was moving, things like that. All the while paying on top of that for horse training. And it wasn’t that she lived down the street either but was a 2 hour drive each way. When the trainer moved out of the area, the client never heard from her again. But they were such good friends /s
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BINGO!
Remember that girl Sarah who made the instructional horse videos? I feel confident she could put polo wraps on THAT WRONG
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Yes!
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Wait. What? No, I don’t. Now I have this pressing need to see this!
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LOL Expert Village! 
Sadly, I don’t think the videos are still available. As funny as they were to watch, the advice given was really bad and dangerous! I think she put the boots on with the hard side to the front, so 90 degrees off…and I forgot most of the insane things she did.
but if anybody can find them again, I am up for entertainment.
I think creating helpless customers is a business model for some trainers though. I am sure it started off innocently enough, having to deal with people having busy jobs and long commutes, but just went way too far.
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Good old Sarah Stetner and her long suffering horse Rowdy. Sarah who majikly turned sweet feed into oats, measured horses with an open hand doing the eintsy beentsy spider method up her horse’s leg, who of the all bits were named after trainers like the famous trainers Tom Thumb, Kimberwicke, and Pelham. And the boots! She called them shin splint boots and thought the padded part went to the front and then put the straps as tight as you can across the tendons in the back. It’s a surprise poor Rowdy didn’t have bowed tendons on both fronts.
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among other things!
good gawd yall…
I had completely forgotten about the measuring segment!!
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I tried looking for her videos but they have been taken down, however, there is a new gaggle of “horse experts.” Most of them are pretty much spot on but the one on how to properly lead your horse is a little out there.
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the videos were thankfully gone really fast. the content was really dangerous to novices!
A shame for the entertainment value though!
I must confess that as a hunter rider since age 4, I never once put a set of polo wraps on a horse until I was given a really nice dressage horse (that hated doing dressage) by a generous boss. If I had ever needed wraps before this, I used stable bandages with horsey safety pins and a few turns of masking tape around the top. And I certainly never rode in wraps.
My boss’ only condition for the gift was that I keep the horse at her barn for a month and do four weekly lessons with her trainer so I would learn his dresage buttons. And she wanted him to wear polos.
Now I’m a smart person, but about 50% of the time I would roll the wraps incorrectly and have the velcro end up in the wrong direction. And I swear that I rolled them the same way each time (velcro to velcro, etc.). To be honest, I’m not sure they’re really necessary at all—if you think your horse is going to hit himself, boots seem like they would do the job a lot better. Maybe they’re a test of spacial thinking, which has never been my strong suit! 
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think leg warmers.
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So nobody’s yet suggested that maybe the OP should ride without a trainer (!!!) for a while.
Is there some reason why that’s not an option?
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well, since the OP has not checked back in…
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Fair enough.
But I was really just wondering why, in the whole course of the thread, nobody had even suggested it.
Seemed a bit odd, that’s all.
