Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Finding your saddle size

----- Original Message -----
From: "Snodgrass, Bonnie" <snodgrab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> With English style saddles if you are inclined toward the dressage style
> saddles because of the better balance and stirrup bar placement you can
> again get into trouble. take this type of saddle out of the arena and you
> will probably want to shorten your stirrups a bit to be able to get off
the
> saddle better over rough terrain, hills and logs. But you may easily find
> that as soon as you shorten your stirrups your knees are up on top of the
> thigh/knee rolls instead of behind the rolls. If you would pick a 17 inch
> saddle for arena riding you may very well be better off with an 18" saddle
> to get a better leg fit and more room for changing your riding position.
In
> an all-purpose type of saddle you may not need to increase your saddle
size.
>

Another problem that I found when i struggled to find an English saddle that
would work, is that if the seat size was right for me 16-17". then the flaps
were way too short.  To get enough flap that my long thighs were not off the
knee rolls, I would have to get too huge a seat....glad to have ditched the
whole shebang for sport saddles!

Karen


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