Wednesday 18 November 2015

Winning

When I started to delve into the world of dressage this summer I noticed something that all the serious riders seemed to have that I did not.

To go along with all the beautiful, massively tall horses and their pretty little upright riders were saddles I had not really noticed before, or at least hadn't given any thought to.

Just look at that...knee roll. uhm.

I sadly looked down at my 15-year-old dressage saddle and thought about the possibility of cosmetic surgery to perk up the knee rolls. A bit of a boob job for saddles. Can they even do that?

can I have this please

At first I wanted to throw my saddle on the fire and get myself one of these saddles with giant knee blocks. Riders just look so perfect in them!

After 2 months of shopping I was discouraged. Feeling thwarted in my cheapness. Maybe even angry a little. Why on earth do dressage saddles have to be so much more expensive than all-purpose saddles?

And then my stubborn side pipes up and declares "I shall force my body to be so damn awesome in position, I don't NEED knee blocks!"

And then I found this...
Knee blocks you can just put in!


My saddle is not made for these but how hard is it to add Velcro people?!


Now to find a sale on them. ;)

3 comments:

  1. haha yessss!!! velcro on knee blocks ftw!! pretty sure i have something pretty similar to what you pictured in my dressage saddle, and they work just perfectly fine thankyouverymuch :)

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  2. A boob job for saddles! LOL! Funniest. Blog. Line. Ever. Please let us know how it goes with the "enhancements."

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