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Rider-Saddle Fit: Optimising Saddle Fit for the Rider with Dr Russell MacKechnie-Guire The importance of correct saddle fit is widely accepted. There has been a significant advance in our understanding of the effect that saddle fit and design can have on equine health and performance. However, rider-saddle fit is an area that is often overlooked but is worthy of equal consideration. This 2-hour session will discuss the anatomy and biomechanics of the rider in relation to the saddle and discuss how the features of the saddle, i.e. seat depth/length, knee/thigh blocks, saddle flaps, can interact with the rider. Horse-rider-saddle interaction is complex. Therefore, this session will not only discuss rider-saddle fit in a static position but also the dynamic interactions, and the effect that rider-saddle fit can have on equine locomotion.
Centaur Biomechanics was found in 2006 by Dr. Russell MacKechnie-Guire who graduated from Warwickshire College in 2006 with a BSc (Hons) in Equine and Human Sports Science and now holds a PhD in Equine Biomechanics graduating from the Royal Veterinary College in 2019. Russell’s thesis was titled ‘The Relationship between Saddle and Rider Kinematics, Equine Locomotion, and Thoracolumbar Pressures in Sports Horses’.
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