Yeah, Bartville= Amish so they don’t do internet. But you can call them between 8am and 8:15am Mon-Sat I think. There are some other threads with their contact info. They do ship, but I don’t know what they’d charge for something that is so light.
I got a belt there last weekend. They custom made it for me while I waited b/c they didn’t have one in the right size on the shelf. That was pretty cool.
It is 1.5 hrs from my house so I don’t go often, but it is a neat shop.
Neck straps are in common use in the UK. Just routine and ordinary to tack up with one. Not just by WFP but I remember a little while ago a posting here about Ian Stark doing clinics over there and emphasising that he also always uses them.
They’re there for use only when you need to balance in an emergency. To save you balancing on reins.
No more and no less.
[QUOTE=vineyridge;4989289]
For those who do use stirrup leather neck straps, how do you keep it place? I’ve used baling twine, but it is not pretty.
Would love some other options that are considerably more elegant.[/QUOTE]
Dark coloured shoe lace, threaded through the D rings and tied around the neckstrap. I’ve also seen people use a small dog collar in the same way.
I am so refreshed to see so many people actively using neck ties! Here i thought I was one of the few
[QUOTE=JER;4989454]
I’ve used a neck strap on occasion but I prefer to grab mane.[/QUOTE]
I use to feel that way too. I found, however, that if I had it on every time I rode instead of just occasionally that it can be more useful than mane. If I’m working and the youngster is being frisky I can slip a couple fingers under it and proceed using my hands on the reins almost as normal, which I can’t do so much with a fist full of mane.
It’s also nice to help remind me not to make too many adjustments as the babies need to make some mistakes so they can learn from them. It’s a great concept that you’re going to sit up there and let them make mistakes, but I find it very hard to do in practice!
Some of these ideas to keep them in place are great. Tate was doing his stretchy circle work so well in warm up the other day it was slipping up by his ears!
I wonder if WFP knows what a great service his wearing a neck strap is to the teachers of green students the world over? 
LOVE the dialog with the pre-teen student! :lol::lol::lol::lol:
Whether or not it was a wise idea, Prozac Pony & I came out of retirement this past weekend to do the Pre-Competition division at the Summer II Coconino HT.
We’d only jumped twice in about the past year & a half - about 2 1/2 weeks prior to the event. When we did x-c schooling after the Summer I Coconino HT, he was EXTREMELY offended when he lurched forward unexpectedly and I caught him in the mouth. (Well, duh :rolleyes:)
And then he started stopping. It was not pretty.
Grabbing mane was not getting the job done.
After a similar experience in the stadium schooling before the event, azeventer suggested that I borrow The Magic Strap (a belt of hers that another friend had used with great success on a greenie). So I did, and we had great jumping results (excluding my brain-fart steering moment coming into the 2nd x-c fence).
I just clutched that sucker with both hands and didn’t let go unless I had to turn, in which case I still mostly used my legs and a little opening rein - and then that hand went right back to the strap.
Prozac Pony was a much happier boy :yes::yes::yes:
[QUOTE=Risk-Averse Rider;4989002]
And by “used”, I mean that I had my fingers wrapped around that sucker like a crack 'ho clutching her pipe.
.[/QUOTE]
wait, so that’s not how we’re supposed to use it??? :lol:
I LOVE my neck strap. I’m sort of ghetto though, I haven’t felt like buying a real one so I have a breastplate that I don’t attach to my D-rings and it does the same thing.
I also really like it that way because Juice is very in-tuned with his breastplate. If he starts getting antsy I can just pull a little on the breastplate and it calms him down, way better than pulling on the reins which tends to make him worse.
I have a breastplate that I usually use for jumping (always for x-c), but I really find it only useful for jumping down off something. Otherwise, as someone pointed out, I end up with my hands in my crotch instead of forward on the neck where they should be.
I always put a neck strap on a green one for jumping. Makes me feel better to know it is there when they do something unexpected. Current greenie is a back cracking over jumper, so I just do what subk said. Grab on and wait to see when and where he takes off and how high we are going.
Today I was out xc schooling and we landed on the backside and spooked a flock of sandhill/whooping cranes that neither of us saw in the next field over. Boy was I glad for that neck strap! Baby actually handled it pretty well. Scared the beegeezus out of me. I had no idea what the noise was until we got turned around.
nothing to see here, move along
This is the bartville neckstrap I think $11 if I remember correctly. It’s a thin strap and perfect size.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4804612321_011b291a2f.jpg
I try to always ride with it if I can but I do always use it on the greenies and when jumping. Great for me to practice keeping my hands forward and also to grab before I grab the reins.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4099/4805243230_3fee0cef32.jpg
I held the neck strap while picking up the canter on this greenie doing his first ride off the track. Keeps them from thinking I want to touch their mouth and go faster.
[QUOTE=Risk-Averse Rider;4989638]
LOVE the dialog with the pre-teen student! :lol::lol::lol::lol:
Whether or not it was a wise idea, Prozac Pony & I came out of retirement this past weekend to do the Pre-Competition division at the Summer II Coconino HT.
We’d only jumped twice in about the past year & a half - about 2 1/2 weeks prior to the event. When we did x-c schooling after the Summer I Coconino HT, he was EXTREMELY offended when he lurched forward unexpectedly and I caught him in the mouth. (Well, duh :rolleyes:)
And then he started stopping. It was not pretty.
Grabbing mane was not getting the job done.
After a similar experience in the stadium schooling before the event, azeventer suggested that I borrow The Magic Strap (a belt of hers that another friend had used with great success on a greenie). So I did, and we had great jumping results (excluding my brain-fart steering moment coming into the 2nd x-c fence).
I just clutched that sucker with both hands and didn’t let go unless I had to turn, in which case I still mostly used my legs and a little opening rein - and then that hand went right back to the strap.
Prozac Pony was a much happier boy :yes::yes::yes:[/QUOTE]
Well, hello!
I was riding my friend’s mare that I’m hoping to do a BN in the fall (first for a h/j girl). I borrowed a pair of pull on breeches and tall boots because mine cut off my circulation (another story). I was sliding around like no tomorrow and had to grab the neck strap of the (loose) standing martingale. The mare is very sensitive in her mouth. I grabbed the strap with both hands to stop on a whim, and voila, stoppage. She was quite hot last night, besides it being hot so I started grabbing the strap with my outside hand and just steering on a circle with my inside hand (a little bit of leading rein or Jane Savoie “turn the key” thing) and voila! Geez, does my position suck a little??? I feel like such a beginner!
My neck strap is a black rope and leather with buckle closure designed by and sold by Linda Tellington -Jones on her website, www.TTouch.com. It is adjustable so can fit different size horses. They have a less expensive all rope also adjustable version in med dark blue. You can make your own. Go to Youtube and search for the video, “3 DIY neck ropes for tackless\bareback riding”. One of these 3 DIY versions id adjustable. Be sure to use strong 1\2 inch diameter soft braided yacht line or climbing rope.
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