Saddle fitting information - Mounting to Protect your saddle and point billets

[sheltona01]

Hi Everyone,

I know a lot of people are interested in saddle fitting topics so I am created some blogs and videos and wanted to share it. I am going to be doing a series of topics depending on what I see. I also share information from other sources that I find interesting that pertains to saddle fitting. I think the next one is going to be on growing horse and how their bodies can change and or how the scapula moves.

Point Billets: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2948645958691809&id=1422469524642801

Mounting: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2968099226746482&id=1422469524642801

Cross posting

[Renn_aissance]

I have never hit “Like” so fast on a page I’ve never visited before. Thanks for sharing. Really interested in reading more about horse body development during growth.

Another topic I’d love to see you cover is girth fit and the selection of an anatomic vs. regularly shaped girth for different conformations and activities. I haven’t seen a great deal of writing on this that’s not sponsored either by a manufacturer or a retailer.

[RedHorses]

Are you looking for feedback or just Likes/Followers?

[sheltona01]

I would love feedback and I am open to ideas people are interested to learn about. Just be gentle. I am not great at video editing and this was my first attempt at learning and doing a video.

How to check if your girth fits is another one on my list.

My main goal is to get good information out there. There is a lot of misinformation on saddle fitting.

[RedHorses]

I noticed two little things.

The photo of the saddle on the horse doesn’t show what you’re trying to show. Partly because of the angle (a side on shot would be better than the 3/4 angle) but more because it’s cropped too tight and your captions cover so much of the horse.

The other thing was in the video you said pulling on the pommel would twist the tree. Did you mean the cantle?

[sheltona01]

Yes, I meant pulling on the cantle . I did catch that but it was by far the best video and she demonstrates it correctly. My sister lives 14 hours from me and I did not feel like driving back down there to fix it. I should see if I can edit the audio track, but that sounds complicated to do.

As far as the point billets, I would have loved to have different pictures, but they were what the client sent me. It is hard to find saddles without point billets. I figured the info is better to have than wait for the perfect pictures to come along.

I tend to want everything to be absolutely perfect and get parallelized in indecision. I am trying to let that go.

[RedHorses]

What software did you use to put the captions on the photo? It should let you copy the pic onto a larger canvas so that you have a border around the picture where you could put the captions out of the way.

YouTube has a place for you to put a description, links, etc about your video. You could put a comment in there correcting your pommel/cantle slip. For future slips see if you can put subtitles/captions on the video.

I do understand letting go of perfection paralysis. This may not be the right place to do that as you are presenting your business here. Let me know if you want a step by step instructions on framing the pic to keep captions out of the way. It’s easy.

I do want to say it’s fantastic that you present the information without a lot of extraneous babble. Too many people make huge posts or 8min videos for things that can be said in two sentences. Keeping your intro short and getting straight to the point will get more views and more people coming back for the next one. If you want to explain in further detail just be wary of getting bogged down before the point or dragging things out afterwards.

Your video was very good. Having your sister already standing on the block would have shaved a few seconds and she could have demonstrated the incorrect hold as you explained, but otherwise well done.