Parelli air saddle pad..any info please???

I have no experience with them.. but find it very odd that I can't find this after market testing they keep mentioning over and over.


Something "similar"
http://www.saddleright.com/


LOL actually.. Hillason the treeless saddle maker has been using a self inflating pad not unlike the parellie one but without the shims for years now! I avoid anything with a bladder like that myself (it was a huge issue with the early air ride pads) as the bladders don't allow heat to escape.. if air isn't moving.. neither is heat!
 
I borrowed one for a while to use while waiting for my Saddle Co. saddle. I used it with my friend's Balance saddle. She offered me the shims that came with the saddle, but I chose to use the Theraflex.

Hmm. I didn't like it, but I'm not sure whether that was because I didn't like the Balance saddle. With the Theraflex and the saddle, I seemed to be wallowing around on the horse's back, and very high up, rather perched. It was difficult to fit, though I am sure if you persisted it would get quite straightforward - but all the positioning of the pad, positioning of the saddle, deflating of the pad, girthing and readjusting just seemed to take a hell of a long time. Horse was not particularly forward going with the whole lot up top either and we both breathed a sign of relief when the nice light Saddle Co saddle arrived... ETA it might have been something I was doing, but I could never get it even on both sides...

I did not have a long enough trial of it to say whether we would have learned to love it with time, but on first impressions, it didn't suit either of us.
 
Hi Rob, its Heather in the UK who just received the fab enduro bridle!!

I used to have a theraflex pad. I used it with a treeless saddle and that didn't work too well. the treeless caused the pad to pull flat which put pressure on the spine. Never tried it with a treed saddle though. But I did find that it made riding feel a little wobbly, like being on an air bed lol! I think my horse liked it, apart from it pulling flat, but think this was the treeless not working with the theraflex. I much prefer the suber pad, horses like them and they feel stable to sit on.

Regards

Heather
 
I tried the theraflex pad when I had my treeless saddle, put I had a similar problem to amberleystar in that it seemed to pull down on the withers.

A similar pad is the Korrector pad, although they are quiet expensive, about £100 I think but they come up on ebay queit often and sell for about half of that. The korrectors instead of having one air cell each side of the spine have 2, one front and back which seems to stop the wobble back and forth when your riding, plus you can pump air in and out of them, where as the parelli one you just let the air out the valves that the front when the saddle is on, and if you take too much air out you have to take it off and start again.
 
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