This is an interactive, hands-on workshop that will give you the skills, tools and knowledge to better help your horse!
This is what you will learn:
✔️ How pressure from saddles affect specific movement in horses and how to recognise these SIGNS.
✔️ How saddle design/shape affects rider position, balance and effectiveness.
✔️ How to map Your Horse’s Back Profile and what key features he needs in a saddle to make better choices.
✔️ How to palpate your horse for muscle health and soreness issues as part of your management.
✔️ Learn what unique saddle features YOU might need as a rider to be comfortable and affective.
✔️ How to check common asymmetries in horses and how it affects saddlefit, horse movement and rider straightness – and some solutions!
✔️ How to PROBLEM SOLVE your saddlefit with an 11 point check.
✔️ How to do a saddle health check – bring your saddle along!
Become a better Coach
➡️ help your pupils and their horse get the most out of their lessons and improve more quickly.
Every Rider & Owner
➡️ be your horse's best advocate by understanding saddlefit, it's affect on movement, and back health.
Vets & Therapists
➡️ learn to recognise the physical issues caused by saddlefit and help your clients by finding any saddlefit causes.
Pony Club Gear Checker & Parents
➡️ keep your kids safe and give them their best start to riding, and save $$ on buying the wrong saddles!
In this workshop you are going to have a whole new perspective of how your saddle affects the way your horse moves, how it affects the way you can sit as a rider, and how to get it all right!
It's all inter-connected.
We want to give you the tools and knowledge to recognise when it’s right, when it’s wrong, and WHY it is going wrong - so you can fix it.
Meet your Saddlefitting Educator
Paula Jeffery is a Qualified Saddlefitter with the world-renowned UK Society of Master Saddlers, as well as holding 2 additional Saddlefitting Qualifications.
She is a Saddlefitting Trainer and Mentor to a team of 15 Saddlefitters, conducts Workshops Australia-wide, teaches horse owners and Equestrian Professionals through her Online Courses, and is an Education Presenter at EQUITANA.
Previously a FEI Level Dressage Rider, Trainer and Coach with 25 years experience. Paula was drawn to studying the relationship between saddle design and function, and it's affect on horse and rider biomechanics.
Frustrated by the lack of information available to owners and riders, Paula has made it a mission through Performance Saddlefits to help change the standard of saddlefitting in Australia, and empower owners through education.
As a group, they train, study and conduct research into saddlefitting, saddle design and the interactions between pressure, balance and biomechanics both in Australia and Internationally, working with top industry vets, physios, designers and manufacturers.
