Ride photo observation

[Mountain girl]

Even though I love looking at endurance ride photos, I really wish
people wouldn't sit on their saddles so I could see what everyone is
riding in! It's hard to even tell a general style underneath all the
fleecy seat covers and saddlebags.

[Ruth Anne Heilgeist]

:-)
I completely agree, albeit tongue in cheek. After all, it is a fashion show, not an endurance ride.

Seriously, I scan the pictures for tack AND wardrobe, just out of interest. The ridecamp archives include a lot of emails about saddle preference if one wants to know who rides in what.

Although I've ridden a lot of miles my first LD will be in March. Can't wait to walk around ridecamp and see the saddles. I ride in an EZ Fit designed and made by Eli Beiler. He tells me other endurance riders have bought them, so I'll be looking for his saddles.
Cheers, Ruth

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[Mountain girl]

Yes, of course it is a fashion show.
For some reason it interests me more to see a photo of a person on
their horse and find out what saddle they use than to just read a text
that says "I use this." Just fur curiosity's sake.
For instance, I'll see a rather tall woman on a little horse, and it
makes me wonder what works for them.
Or I'll think, "Hmm, there's a cagey looking fellow, wonder what he
rides in?"
Or else I'll see a very "shiny" and well put together rider/horse
combination and it makes me speculate about what kind of saddle they
would choose. It seems like at rides I am too self-involved to notice
as much.
:)



On Feb 22, 4:57�am, Ruth Anne Heilgeist <ruthanneheilge...@yahoo.com>
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> :-)
> I completely agree, albeit tongue in cheek. After all, it is a fashion show, not an endurance ride.
>
> Seriously, I scan the pictures for tack AND wardrobe, just out of interest. �The ridecamp archives include a lot of emails about saddle preference if one wants to know who rides in what.
>
> Although I've ridden a lot of miles my first LD will be in March. Can't wait to walk around ridecamp and see the saddles. I ride in an EZ Fit designed and made by Eli Beiler. �He tells me other endurance riders have bought them, so I'll be looking for his saddles.
> Cheers, Ruth
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> >Even though I love looking at endurance ride photos, I really wish
> >people wouldn't sit on their saddles so I could see what everyone is
> >riding in! �It's hard to even tell a general style underneath all the
> >fleecy seat covers and saddlebags.
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[dangermouth]

If I had my way, every picture would be annotated. You run your mouse across the saddle and a line of text would pop up: "Stonewall saddle, 17", wide tree, woolback pad" ... then on the rider's legs, and it tells you brand, style and size of tights and boots, etc. Someone needs to make a program that does this.

Becky :)

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[Karen Cox]

I also love ridecamp pictures, what kinds of trailers do people have, etc. We newbies eat this kind of stuff up. 

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[Lynne Glazer]

LOL, you guys are hilarious. It's funny, in the moment, I don't notice anything about what the rider is doing, if they're trotting, I choose the phase where the horse's chest is best shown (outside leg up and mid phase of extension). If I can see them coming from far enough away, might choose the sitting part of the rising trot instead to make the rider look better. And then afterwards, while making picks for proofs, I get to leisurely examine their tack, equitation, horse confo, etc.

I've been collecting "outtakes" too, showing faults to be used by clinicians at some point, with the faces fuzzed out. <evil grin>

The advent of sheepskin for seat covers really obfuscates things for all of us!

Lynne

[Dawn Carrie]

Becky, I like your idea of being able to run your mouse across and have things identified!  <VBG>  And heck, while we're dreaming, might as well give the name of the horse and rider too, for those of us in other regions who don't recognize them.  :)

 

Dawn Carrie, TX

[ride...@juno.com]

>Even though I love looking at endurance ride photos, I really wish
>people wouldn't sit on their saddles so I could see what everyone is
>riding in! It's hard to even tell a general style underneath all the
>fleecy seat covers and saddlebags.
>

Here's a photo of Josie's Arabian Saddle Company "Rubicon" which she LOVES http://www.my-endurance.net/photo/arabian-saddle-co-rubicon?context=user

and here's a photo of my Ortho-Flex Express which I got new, but I've been riding a while so you can see why it's usually covered with a sheepskin. :-)

http://www.my-endurance.net/photo/img2841-1?context=user

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[Lynne Glazer]

In my ride photo galleries, anyone can annotate individual pictures with comments.  Go ahead, knock yourselves out!  Identify yourself or others, the gear, the breeding of the pony, the hoof protection, or...surprise us!  Good for people with cabin fever, maybe.

<http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/Clients/Distance-Events>

<http://www.photo.lynnesite.com/tevis>

there's a distance archive too, if you run out of subjects.

Lynne

[Crysta Turnage]

Ah yes... the importance of catching riders on the "going-down" sitting phase of the posting trot, to best catch the boobs in the UPswing position!!!  Hate those photos where I've just sat and am now rising, and my boobs are 1/2 a step behind!  ;)

 

~ C

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[Sara Borkosky]

I agree! I did my first 2 LD rides last fall and have a ride planned
every month with hopes to move up to 50s mid summer. I am looking into
a new saddle and stare at all the photos to see what people are riding
in so I know what works for others. Glad I am not the only one!

Sara

[Jannelle and Adam]

Oh my…I do have some awful pix in this regard.  The girls are often a ½ step behind while posting…and if they’re a ½ step too low on upswing, as it were, and it looks bad, well, they’re probably a ½ step too high on the down swing.  I THINK I may have solved my “swinging” issues…we’ll see this summerJ. 

 

Jannelle

[dangermouth]

This is why I ride gaited :)

Becky

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[Janice Taylor]

Hey, ladies...strap down those girls with a sports bra. Lol...I know, it isn't for everyone...:-)
The first thing I look at in my photo, is my straightness/crookedness...urgh...

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[Jannelle and Adam]

Two, count them, two (bras, that is…of course two girls).  Some us are more endowed than others.  And more, um, flexible?  Is that the word?

 

Another thing I wasn’t ready for was rubs.  Until I discovered Anti-Monkey Butt powder…man, rubs even in my belly button!  Ugh.  I like Monkeybutt better than body glide. 

 

Jannelle

[Katrina Mosshammer]

Cured my problem with surgery. Best thing I ever did. My ride photos look better too!

 

Katrina Mosshammer (AERC # 5763)

"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly." - Arnold Edinborough

"A Tevis completion does not require a super horse with a super rider. It requires a well conditioned horse of almost any breed with a rider who has his/her head screwed on right and a big dream inside it." - Julie Suhr

 

From: Jannelle and Adam

Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 8:19 PM

To: janus...@gmail.com

Cc: ride...@endurance.net

Subject: RE: [RC] Re: Ride photo observation

 

Two, count them, two (bras, that is…of course two girls).  Some us are more endowed than others.  And more, um, flexible?  Is that the word?

[Mountain girl]

Yes, like tagging on facebook! That would be great.

I love Angie's "holey" saddle. One of mine is starting to get that
way. It IS a cheap saddle but I never realized you could actually
wear out a saddle in several years until I started riding endurance.
Sometimes my legs look like that too. Maybe I should start wrapping
them in fleece.

I also, like Josie LOVE my Arabian Saddle Company Ellipse and mention
this fact to everyone I meet, including strangers on the street.

The boobs comments are hilarious. Only in endurance can you brag
about how small your boobs are and about how little trouble they give
you.

[Jannelle and Adam]

Or be happy to weigh MORE :) (ya know...for BC...)

Jannelle

[Mickie Newnam]

I've finally found a bra that works well. Enell brand. Strong enough to keep the girls where they belong but comfortable enough that if I'm busy after riding and don't take time to change, I don't feel cu tin half. I don't do 50s but with what riding I do it's seemed to work so far.
Mickie

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Sent: Wed, February 22, 2012 9:19:13 PM

Subject: RE: [RC] Re: Ride photo observation

Two, count them, two (bras, that is…of course two girls).  Some us are more endowed than others.  And more, um, flexible?  Is that the word?

 

Another thing I wasn’t ready for was rubs.  Until I discovered Anti-Monkey Butt powder…man, rubs even in my belly button!  Ugh.  I like Monkeybutt better than body glide. 

 

Jannelle

 

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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:55 PM
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Subject: RE: [RC] Re: Ride photo observation

 

Hey, ladies...strap down those girls with a sports bra. Lol...I know, it isn't for everyone...:-)
The first thing I look at in my photo, is my straightness/crookedness...urgh...

On Feb 22, 2012 5:46 PM, "Jannelle and Adam" <mf...@centurytel.net> wrote:

Oh my…I do have some awful pix in this regard.  The girls are often a ½ step behind while posting…and if they’re a ½ step too low on upswing, as it were, and it looks bad, well, they’re probably a ½ step too high on the down swing.  I THINK I may have solved my “swinging” issues…we’ll see this summerJ. 

 

Jannelle

 

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[Debbie Parsons]

An additional benefit of riding with an protective vest . . . girls
held nicely in place!

Debbie, who tries to sit the trot going by the photographer.

[Stella J]

CHeck out Title Nine Sports- they carry a large (no pun intended)
range of support and sports bras. Even have a grading system for
amount of support.