the best thing, assuming no CURRENT injury, is to work him evenly on both sides - lunging and/or riding. Ally had MASSIVELY uneven shoulders, but once I learned how to REALLY ride him correctly and not let him compensate, he evened up within a few months and we had to complete restuff the saddle to rebalance it.
the key with saddle fittings in case like this is to get a GOOD expert -- you want one that will give him room to move where he is SUPPOSED to be. if you stuff it to how he is now, he'll not be able to move up and straighten out.
I am weaker to my left, and consequently so is he. I can usually get some nice work out of him to the right, because I can block his avoidances so much easier and really get him going. To the left I just can't hold him up as well and I guess his body has compensated for that.
We really don't know if this is an injury, and we won't know until we get him evaluated. It could all be developmental and it's just now showing up because we've finally started to ask him to really work. I need to get this on film. It does feel like he's lifting his front end up to canter and then he trips. It looks like he gets his head and neck inverted (not unusual), then takes a short step with his inside front, and then catches himself with his outside. It's enough to throw me off my diagonal. When it was the worst, he couldn't even trot three strides without tripping himself
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the key with saddle fittings in case like this is to get a GOOD expert -- you want one that will give him room to move where he is SUPPOSED to be. if you stuff it to how he is now, he'll not be able to move up and straighten out.
hope that helps some!
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I am weaker to my left, and consequently so is he. I can usually get some nice work out of him to the right, because I can block his avoidances so much easier and really get him going. To the left I just can't hold him up as well and I guess his body has compensated for that.
We really don't know if this is an injury, and we won't know until we get him evaluated. It could all be developmental and it's just now showing up because we've finally started to ask him to really work. I need to get this on film. It does feel like he's lifting his front end up to canter and then he trips. It looks like he gets his head and neck inverted (not unusual), then takes a short step with his inside front, and then catches himself with his outside. It's enough to throw me off my diagonal. When it was the worst, he couldn't even trot three strides without tripping himself ( ... )
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