Geplaatst http://www.naturalhoof.co.nz/thorsten.html
Dus ik trek mijn bewering 'meer dan 80 km op één dag op blote voeten is niet mogelijk' weer in. Het kan dus wel!
Alleen om de voorhoeven zaten Easyboots.
Citaat:About the author: Thorsten Kaiser lives in New Zealand and has been involved in Endurance Riding for the last five years. He has accumulated several thousands of competitive kilometers and reached a turning point when he joined the barefoot community in January 2002. Since then, he has been promoting barefoot riding in New Zealand.
En nog een ander:
http://www.naturalhoof.co.nz/higgins.html
Citaat:A couple of observations that we have made during the season that I think are worth mentioning are:
1. If you are considering bare footing then you have to realise that it is going to take time.
2. You are going to get a lot of people trying to put you down, but you will notice that if you debate the issue with them you will soon realise that most of them are very uninformed on the workings of a horse's foot. Some vets we have noticed are the worst. We had one instance at a ride vet in, where the vet wanted to put the horse out, but after 4 trot outs, she couldn't. At the end of the ride we got another person to present the horse and as a result the vet never realised that the horse was bare foot. We ended up getting best conditioned.
3. When discussing the track surfaces either pre-ride or post-ride, the people with shod horses seem to be more paranoid than us.
