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Location: midwest mama | I recently got a new saddle that came with slanted aluminum stirrups. I have ridden in it a few times now and I'm not sure I like them. I asked the saddle maker about them and all he said was "A lot of people ask for them."
Can someone please explain to me what the main purpose of these slanted stirrups is?
Pros and Cons? |
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 Reaching for the stars....
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| They don't wrench on the knees as much. I had slanted aluminum stirrups put on my trophy saddle last year and my knees are in much better shape for it. |
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Expert
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I don't know what the exact purpose of them is but I was having problems with my knee and ankle hurting during everyday riding. By the time I rode 3 or 4 horses I could barely walk. I changed my everyday saddle to slanted stirrups and don't have near the problem. I don't think I would like running in them but for everyday riding I love them. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I lose them during a run unless I have rubber bands. Don't have that problem very often with flat stirrups. |
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 Poor Cracker Girl
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | Three 4 Luck - 2014-12-29 10:31 AM I lose them during a run unless I have rubber bands. Don't have that problem very often with flat stirrups.
I have the opposite experience. I would lose flat stirrups like crazy without rubber bands but rarely lose my slanteds. And my stirrups are down a hole with the slanteds. Weird.  |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | TrackinBubba - 2014-12-29 10:45 AM Three 4 Luck - 2014-12-29 10:31 AM I lose them during a run unless I have rubber bands. Don't have that problem very often with flat stirrups. I have the opposite experience. I would lose flat stirrups like crazy without rubber bands but rarely lose my slanteds. And my stirrups are down a hole with the slanteds. Weird.
I'm wondering if it's because I'm a little bit bow-legged. LOL. I can't seem to ever get the adjustment right with the slanted, they're either too short or a tad long. So I leave them feeling a tad long so I can sit deep and then lose them. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Anywhere my horses are ! Lost in Texas!!!!! | I love my slanted stirrups. No more knee pain or pain in my sit bones. |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| My knees and ankles thank me daily while riding in my slanted stirrups. Getting in a regular flat set of stirrups now makes me wonder why I didn't switch sooner! I had a minimal problem losing my stirrups during a run at first, but now I have the length adjusted correctly and don't lose them anymore. They are a tad longer than my previous stirrup length. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | The purpose of the slanted stirrup is to get your foot to sit even in the stirrup. |
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Location: SE Oklahoma | Even though they are slanted, they are designed to make your foot sit level. In regular stirrups, your foot doesn't sit level. That's what causes knee and ankle problems for most people. I thought for sure it would take a lot of "figuring out" how to ride in them, and slow work and yada yada yada ... nope. Rode in them once, ran in them the next day. NO more pain at all! I don't lose them during a run, but I didn't lose straight stirrups either, so I can't say that's because of the slanted ones. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | They help take the pressure off your knees and I love how my feet set flat in them. |
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Good Ole Boys just Fine with Me
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Location: SE Missouri | Just don't try to step off a horse during a little goat tying clinic! Never landed on my butt before.. Way to help my nephew and friends son and yes it was recorded!
Butt it first then the back of my head.. Ridiculous, lol. |
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 Ms. Poutability
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Location: In my own world | what brand is everybody using? |
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 Quiet Riot
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Location: North Dakota | I love my Wall's 2" slanted stirrups
Edited by blyellowrose 2014-12-29 8:13 PM
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Elite Veteran
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Location: Northwest | They really, really help my knees not ache as much! I currently ride with the Walls 3" slanted and looooove them. I use to ride with the Walls twisted 2" but I lost my stirrups a lot during runs, now I never lose them and I have even been able to put my stirrups down a notch.  |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Great for your knees-bad to ride colts.
Even being tall, I hAVE PROBLEMS GETTING MY FEET FREE WHEN i HAVE TO. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | livinonlove&horses - 2014-12-29 7:55 PM
what brand is everybody using?
Walls 3 inch |
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