The News in BALANCE
The BALANCE office is now open, but over fewer hours/days than normal, due to Covid restrictions.
The online Shop has also re-opened to accept new orders, but please pay attention to the information about delays.
Our Functional Saddling System respects the way a horse needs to function to be healthy and sound. We provide information, education, and a big range of saddling equipment that has been specifically designed to get amazing results.
This online shop is open to accept new orders.
However, please remember that with ongoing disruption to normal manufacturing, you will often need to wait for much longer than normal to receive certain products. This increased to 5 weeks, towards the end of 2020. 😕
If you decide to order, and get onto the waiting list, we will be doing our best to get your goods to you ASAP, but we have no control over delays from the manufacturers and suppliers we use.
Since January 2021, we have also been dealing with problems in shipping to certain countries in Europe! All of our paperwork and procedures are correct for the couriers, but customs offices in some countries are making errors and causing delays that we have no control over!
We apologise for any inconvenience and ask for your understanding in these difficult times.
The News in BALANCE. November 2020 Updates to the BALANCE Website I thought I should get my act together and write a new Blog to coincide with the updated site going live on the afternoon of Wednesday 17th November. Some of the things that have been done to the site are not going...
Well, here we are, well into the summer months (although the weather here in the UK is more like September than July) and still only feeling our way out of the full lock-down that has impacted most countries around the world. In April, the BALANCE office was forced to close completely, with Teressa...
During a recent session of tidying my office and looking through old paperwork and files, I made the mistake of looking through some old diaries that Carol and I used to use before the days of iCal. Of course, this is a dangerous thing to do, because inevitably, we end up spending the time allocated to...
Forgotten wisdom from over 100 years ago, is a guide that the saddle industry needs to be using as a foundation for future training. After over 25 years of working to improve the way saddling is done, to protect ridden horses, we think that what we do is completely logical, simple, normal and we wonder….why doesn’t...
BALANCE Functional Saddling
A whole approach to designing, choosing and using saddles that respects and protects the ridden horse’s health, soundness and well-being.
Maintenance Saddling
A simple Saddling System that works to maintain healthy musculature, posture, movement & performance in the ridden horse.
BALANCE Functional Padding System
Versatile and adjustable pads, for horses to experience comfort & freedom, when used under an appropriate BALANCE saddle, or other makes of saddle with the right design features and width options.
Remedial Saddling
Helping horses to recover to their full health and ability after illness, lameness or previous saddle damage.
Beyond the Saddle
Application of Functional Saddling supports the aim of riders who study & respect the bio-mechanics of efficient, safe & therefore, beautiful movement in their horses.
International Support
Helping people & helping horses around the world, through a TEAM of dedicated & trained Saddle Consultants or Test Ride Facilitators in addition to support from BALANCE HQ.
Thanks for you very professional advice along the way and I would highly recommend the BALANCE team to anyone
Joy & Chiquita
If you get a moment - please could you pass on my thanks to Carol for taking the time to help me and my poor ex racehorse on Wed last week and It really opened my eyes to a number of things and now I am feeling very confident that he will 'come good'!!
Andrea, Yorkshire
Carol Brett at BALANCE, recommended a saddle and the
Remedial Programme to help us get started. I haven’t had a single problem with
Lachlan’s back again. He’s pain-free, light in the hand, happy to be saddled,
and has returned to his happy willing self!
He looks and feels fantastic!
Anna and Lachlan
The BALANCE "wholeistic" approach is beyond description, that resource I so desperately needed.
Thank you from all of us, Carol and Lesley, for helping horses heal.
Carol Grubb
Melinda
I had always dreamed of this kind of a saddle fitting. I wasn't at all sure it existed. Finding the right saddle is so EXTREMELY important - and I have found a company that REALLY knows that.
Lisa.
I am often asked for advice on saddles and I always
recommend speaking to the BALANCE team. As a result, I have seen dozens
of instances where the introduction of the BALANCE system works dramatic
improvement in a horse’s behaviour and movement
25 years of using BALANCE – I would never change.
Hazel Offord. Wendelbury Stud
The BALANCE Saddling System, does not only help with comfort
for the horse, but also with its posture and basic way of going.
The saddles allow the horse to move back towards its Natural
Correctness and carry its movement from the hind quarters.
Sarah Ussher (Trainer)
I can’t tell you how much I love my Zenith!!! I went through 10 saddles in 6 years for my horse before I got my Zenith. Two were “custom” made for him. What a joke. I am on my 5th year with my Zenith and it is still perfect!!! I cringe now when I see these very deep Dressage saddles with the huge thigh blocks. People ask me how I can ride in my Zenith with no thigh blocks and no deep seat. I say well now my horse is balanced and I don’t have to depend on the saddle to hold me. ☺️
Melinda
