Re: RC: shoe pads

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/19/99 11:03:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
truman.prevatt@netsrq.com writes:

<<  However, you try
 some of the North GA rides with steep hills covered with rock and that
 wonderful red clay mud that will suck those feet right off the horse and 
turn a
 trail into an ice skating rink even for horses with the best of traction, and
 you won't find very many people using Easy boots because they just don't work
 very well under those conditions. >>

And therein lies another beauty of Easyboots vs. pads--you can take them OFF 
when conditions warrant, and put them back ON again when they are of use.  
Pads are just as bad as Easyboots in mud, clay, wet grass, etc., and under 
those conditions, neither Easyboots nor pads provide any advantages.  They 
ARE of use in the rocks.  The great thing about Easyboots is that one can use 
them OVER shoes in the rocks, where IMO they are even better than pads 
because they put the protection a shoe's width away from the foot instead of 
right up against it.  Then when one gets out of the rocks, one can remove 
them and have the grip of open feet as well as the advantage to the foot of 
having it open to the environment.  They represent the best of both worlds, 
and IMO, for general use, make pads all but obsolete.  Any more, I would only 
choose pads for a foot with a pathological problem that needs some sort of 
dressing or constant protection--such as a healing abcess or some such.

Heidi


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