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CUSTOMIZE THE FIT OF YOUR SADDLE

BY CHANGING the shape of your SADDLE PAD


BEGIN by assessing your saddles fit with

The Impression Pad


Once you have determined where your saddle falls short

Create a CUSTOMIZED SADDLE PAD


This is a System for Accurate, Easy Saddle Testing & Correction

Developed & Manufactured by The Port Lewis Workshop Canada

Visit our booth at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto


Want a simple, accurate way to test a saddle & make a correction?

Within one hour you can test your saddle:

(1)   Locate pressure points & bridging

(2)   Reshape (correct) the saddle pad (not the saddle)

(3)   Retest to check the new fit (test your correction)

Do this as often as you wish whenever you are questioning fit


The Impression Pad is a tool used to determine saddle fit

As with any tool the more you use it

the more skilled you become with it


 

Tack up

placing the Impression Pad

under your saddle

Ride

for approximately 30-minutes

(walk, trot, canter)

Dismount

remove your saddle

Look at the Impression Pad

Assess

The dough inside

the Impression Pad

with a light source

Depressions

in the dough

are created by

force, weight & movement

Where the dough is thick

an area of little pressure

Where the dough is thin

an area with a lot of pressure

 

PLImpressionPadwithSaddleOn.jpg
PLleftsideImpression.jpg

PLrightsideImpression.jpg

PLImpressionsBothSide.jpg

What you ultimately want to see

is an EVEN thickness of dough

From wither to loin on

both left and right sides of the saddle 


The Impression Pad is very EASY to use

and very ACCURATE