Re: RC: Re: New Topic - Hooves

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

That is REALLY interesting because I was responding to the "natural
balance shoeing" techniques of Moses Gonzales (and his brother--I forget
his name) and his disciples (appropriate, huh? Moses--disciples?---oh
forget it!) Anyway, I didn't even realize there was a shoe out there.
Leave it to CA to have new age shoeing.
Bette
Bette Lamore
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RDShoe4U@aol.com wrote:
> 
>  I agree with what Maggie and Nelson have to say on this matter.Let me ask a
> few questions and give some of my opions at the same time.First of all from
> talking to several people there seems to be varied opinions on what NBS
> actually entails.Myself I think like the orginal post ( I think ) using the
> natural balance shoe.The balance I use in my shoe jobs kinda goes a like
> this: Trim the frog,wrapping your hand around the foot put one finger on the
> coronary band and your thumb on the frog like you were going to touch them
> together.By doing this you have found the coffin joint.Sometimes I may
> actually mark this on the frog with a dot.My goal is to get equal distance
> from the dot to  the toe and equal distance to the heels.50/50 is the goal(
> not always posible),also using same dot get a medial / lateral balance.Alot
> of time I will recess the shoe and roll the toe back into the shoe around
> here it is known as a pasture roll.I use this method on most horses I
> shoe,but this is where I get on my soap box a little.Lets start with a
> question:
> 1.If you hired a mechanic to fix your car and he/she showed up with one
> wrench in there tool box would you not wonder if they had what it took to fix
> your car.Maybe they do could just be it needs a bolt tightend and they have
> the wrench.Or maybe your car needs a different tool but thats the only tool
> he/she is willing to use.What then?
> 2.You go to the same shop.I need a tires you say.So he gets his tire.Its a
> monster gumbo mudder special ! Wow! and them puts in on the rim and shoves it
> on the vehicle and away you go.Your moving along ok kinda just going down the
> road.You thinking to yourself boy my Corvette should be going better than
> this.What happened was the guy/girl didn't look above the rim (foot) to see
> what he was putting this tire on.
> 3.Lastly something to think about.NBS shoes causes horses to breakover
> exactly forward correct.Unless you are a lucky person your horse is not
> perfectly straight.So what happens if your horse has knees pointing out and
> your forcing his foot to break over exactly in front of him?Where is the
> stress going?
> 
> I guess in a nut shell if your farrier is not looking at the whole horse or
> is shoeing every single horse in the same fashion I would venture to say
> there may be a problem with some of them.Because although alot are alike I
> have not seen many horses that are exactly the same.Just a few thoughts that
> I am sure I will be blasted for as usual LOL. RD
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