Fitting The Motion

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Fitting the motion

The saddle rests on a flat muscle covering the entire body named Cutaneus Trunci, (first picture). The muscle is between one and two inches thick as shown by the second picture. The muscles moving the shoulders as well as the muscles involved in locomotion are deep under. They are not developed by pressure or touch. They are developed by proper movement. The saddle can tailor the horse back but the real fitting is the stability of the saddle when the horse is in motion. There is no question that the width of the tree needs to fit the horse but the naïve idea of “giving more room’ using a wider tree than necessary and filling up with padding, creates a problem of instability which in turn hampers proper function and development of the back muscles. The same can be said about the gullet.

The fitting of the saddle is a dynamic endeavor. The primary function of the saddle is allowing proper interaction of forces and consequent actions between the horse and the rider. Trees and gullets wider than necessary create a problem of instability shifting the saddle right and left and disturbing the alternative transversal rotations that are coupled with lateral bending of the horse’s thoracolumbar spine. The Macel Samba as well as the Samba S is the most stable saddle on the market.

Lateral bending is coupled with a transversal rotation which occurs twice per stride.

The saddle needs to follow the movement as precisely as possible. A tree wider than necessary as well as a gullet wider than needed disturb proper function and muscular work of the back mucscles shifting righ and left as illustrated in this picture.

This is my horse Chazot. He is a large thoroughbred.

This is Chazot’s saddle, Samba, medium tree. Superb craftmanship and proverbial

stability.

This is the Samba s. Same tree, different design of the panels.

Contact Helyn@scienceofmotion.com or Jean Luc, Chazot44@gmail.com