No. 127. Natascha van Eijk More on Bit Fitting
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Natascha van Eijk is the founder of the International College for Professional Bitfit Consultants based in The Netherlands. Her background in equine anatomy, bodytherapy, riding and coaching makes her approach on bitfitting as much allround as possible. A contact issue can have multiple causes : bit, bridle, natural crookedness, lameness or other pathology but also rider crookedness and rider mistakes. This means an bitfit consultant plays a pivot role in finding a solution for contact issues and needs a multidisciplinary approach on this topic. It all starts or ends at the bit. Your horse is communicating!
Awesome! Very educational! Love it!
Thank you. It is a very complex process to make sure everything is working well together. When I was fitting the bit to my new horse I made a really, now that I think about it, stupid mistake. I was standing on the left side and so just looked from the left side to see where the bit was sitting in his mouth. Everything looked really good and he seemed comfortable while I was riding him with it. After watching another bit fitting seminar from Wendy I decided to look on the other side and there was an upper canine tooth there that wasn't on the left side!! The bit could actually tap that canine tooth. I immediately changed that bit and found that my bridle could not adjust well enough to fit his head as well as hold the bit where it needed to be. So, I purchased a Micklam bridle which can make many adjustments. I ended up having to spend a good amount of money to get even that adjustable bridle altered to make sure it fit him properly and especially to make sure that the cheek piece buckles were not sitting right in the middle of his TMJs. I'm very happy with how the bridle and new bit are fitting him and he seems to be also. 😊🐴
Good job! :)
Wow great job. Some changes are easy to make yourself by just having a proper look at your horse and it's reactions. So nice to hear this and former webinars made you more aware and helped your horse.
This was great! Loved the visuals! Thank you!!
Glad you liked it :)
I wish we had a transcript of the webinar. I know she made a reference to Why historically bits and bridles were used but I can't find it
If you click on the three little dots next to "save" just under the video you can see where it says "open transcript" and then you can see the transcript on the right of the video!
@@murdochmethod thank you!
Any thoughts on bitless?
Please watch Dr. Hilary Clayton's Webinar on Bridle fit for information on Bitless.