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| The Corrector saddle pad by Len Brown vs. the CSI pad? Im looking to buy a CSI pad but came across this other brand. Thoughts/Experience on both pads? Please! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I have both. Like them both for different reasons. The CorrecTor is easy to shim, and works better for a saddle that fits well or is a little tight in the shoulders. The CSI is thicker, even with a half inch liner, but also more supportive, I think, plus the part against the horse is real wool. I also don't have trouble with it rubbing anywhere and I have had with the envelope pad the corrector is in--specifically the part where it connects over the loin. |
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Location: ND | I haven't had a CorrecTOR but love my CSI, I had the neoprene insert for probably 2 years, and switched and got a wool insert about 2 years ago, still have the same top .. love love it, that's all that I feel comfortable putting on my horses right now! |
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  Crazy Chicken Chick
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| I'm interested to hear as well. I have a 3yo that is still growing, but has a definite hollow behind her shoulders (even before she was ever saddled)
I also have a couple horses that I'm trying to find the right saddle for, where the saddle is a wee bit tight on the shoulders.
I'd love to find a pad I could use in both circumstances.
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Location: Arkansas | I have 3 corrector pads and love them. One my husband uses for his treed Tucker trail riding saddle with a horse that has deep slopes off his shoulders. The other 2 i use on my barrel horses and i only use the envelope(pulled out of the blanket) on top of my BOT western pad under my Circle Y Tammy Fischer treeless saddles. Works great! 
Edited by moorehorses 2014-10-02 12:48 PM
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Location: Outside of Larryville, KS | I have had both pads, and now only ride in the Corrector on all of our horses, barrel and rope horses. The CSI pad was too thick I felt and I didn't feel the horses movement as well. The Turn and Burn Corrector is fairly light weight, they are easy to clean and come with a ton of shims. IF you live close enough I would recommend taking your horse to Len Brown and he will personally fit the corrector to your horse with shims. They are expensive but last a long time. I don't love how they look, but pretty is as pretty does! |
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Location: midwest mama | I LOVE my CorrecTor pad (I actually have the ProtecTor version). I love to be able to arrange the front and back shims to whatever horse I am riding.
However, it DOES NOT help with a saddle that is too tight in the shoulders. If you have a saddle that is too tight in the shoulders, you want to use the thinnest pad possible to help create some room in that space. I know people think they need to pad under the pressure points, but you are actually creating more pressure with a thicker pad.
I always go back to the old thought - "You cannot put on a pair of thicker socks and make a shoe that is too small fit better." |
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| I have both and also the Zone by Classic Equine. I also have a saddleright. I love all of them for different reasons on different horses. Depending on how your horse is built and what event you are doing I think either pad will work awesome! |
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| OldSchoolCowgirl - 2014-10-02 2:48 PM
I LOVE my CorrecTor pad (I actually have the ProtecTor version). I love to be able to arrange the front and back shims to whatever horse I am riding.
However, it DOES NOT help with a saddle that is too tight in the shoulders. If you have a saddle that is too tight in the shoulders, you want to use the thinnest pad possible to help create some room in that space. I know people think they need to pad under the pressure points, but you are actually creating more pressure with a thicker pad.
I always go back to the old thought - "You cannot put on a pair of thicker socks and make a shoe that is too small fit better."
Mine is ONLY a tad bit tight at the very top, so I feel like if I could shim behind that it would lift it up just enough. It's not real tight and the rest of the shoulder fits fine. |
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| Where's the best place to find a used CorrecTor? I have looked in the ads here. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | luvinrunnin - 2014-10-02 7:13 PM Where's the best place to find a used CorrecTor? I have looked in the ads here.
I've seen them on here. I think I found mine on a FB tack swap page. You don't see them for sale very often. |
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Location: Outside of Larryville, KS | I found a used one in good shape on Ebay |
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Location: Northwest | HDNAQHA - 2014-10-02 7:51 PM
I found a used one in good shape on Ebay
Me too.  |
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| luvinrunnin - 2014-10-02 7:06 PM
OldSchoolCowgirl - 2014-10-02 2:48 PM
I LOVE my CorrecTor pad (I actually have the ProtecTor version). I love to be able to arrange the front and back shims to whatever horse I am riding.
However, it DOES NOT help with a saddle that is too tight in the shoulders. If you have a saddle that is too tight in the shoulders, you want to use the thinnest pad possible to help create some room in that space. I know people think they need to pad under the pressure points, but you are actually creating more pressure with a thicker pad.
I always go back to the old thought - "You cannot put on a pair of thicker socks and make a shoe that is too small fit better."
Mine is ONLY a tad bit tight at the very top, so I feel like if I could shim behind that it would lift it up just enough. It's not real tight and the rest of the shoulder fits fine.
My question, is if you shim behind won't you make the spot you shim tight? |
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Location: the high desert | I would love to have a CSI saddle pad, but at the price there at im just not willing to spend that kind of money on something that might not even work for my horse. I wish they had something were you could try the saddle pad for a week or two before you buy it. The trainer my mare is with has and uses corrector saddle pads and she loves them and they work very well with my mare. This is the main reason im leaning towards buying a corrector pad versus the CSI since i know the corrector pad works for my mare. I just need to find a used one because im to cheap to buy a new one  |
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