If you’re wondering, the twist is the part of the saddle that is between your inner thighs. If you’re a horsewoman, and you experience hip pain in the saddle, you may be riding in the wrong saddle for you! The seat size might be ideal for your femur length, and your saddle might fit your horse’s back, but if the twist is too wide for your pelvis, you’re going to feel like you’re being torn apart at the crotch! A too narrow twist can feel like you’re straddling a fence post, leaving you sitting on your lady-bits! Saddles are not supposed to be torture devices! What if it didn’t have to be this way? What if we were never taught about saddles beyond their basic anatomy and how to put one on a horse, and just didn’t know? I now know that before I studied and became a certified saddle fitter, even after 48 years in the saddle, I never knew how much I didn’t know about saddles! I’m here to show you that your dedication to the sport shouldn’t have to be measured in pain. We deal with the pain of riding for the love of the horse, the love of our sport, and see it as just part of the price we pay to participate. We experience back pain, shoulder pain, hip pain, and yes, even urinary tract, and yeast infections because our saddles don’t fit us properly. Sure, we compensate for it as best we can typically causing our bodies to contort in such a way that we pull ourselves out of proper riding position, just to find a comfortable position in the saddle.
We do yoga stretches, live on Tylenol, ibuprophen, and other pain relievers, wear special padded ‘rider’s panties’, and other seat savers, and accept that that’s just the way saddles are. We deal with it because we love the sport, and we do whatever we can to overcome the discomfort being in the saddle can cause. Most women don’t realize that riding isn’t supposed to be painful.
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