How To Become A Saddle Fitter - The steps you need to take to be a Saddle Fitter.

Learn all about how to become a Saddle Fitter; in this fireside chat with a onesie-clad, no-make-up, unicorn-slipper wearing Poppy Webber.

She chats through the two main routes in, talks about the work involved, and what to look out for with the random Saddle Fitting Training places pop up all over the place, with names that sound very similar to The Society Of Master Saddlers... but remember, there is only REAL Society of Master Saddlers...
And their website is:
www.mastersaddlers.co.uk
More relevant links below (bottom of the description)
P.s Poppy's brain fell out at 8mins 26secs... .Alexa didn't help, but the answer was 200 x £500 - £5000 is £100,000 - £1,000,000

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:50 The Society of Master Saddlers and why they're the BEST in the WORLD
2:15 Two main routes - saddlery or trainee
4:00 Apprenticeships?
4:17 The Introductory Course. The first rung of a very hard ladder.
4:55 The three years 'on the job' training. The second rung of that ladder... Where all the learning happens.
5:35 Other training undertaken during the three years.
6:00 Why those three years can be hard to get into
7:03 Working for someone, using their stock
8:15 Stock
9:45 Stuck in a car for three years, singing....
10:07 What happens next... the extra courses and exams
10:40 The next training course
11:50 Exams. Yikes.
12:52 When you pass!
13:35 Behind the scenes
13:50 Try work experience for a week
16:00 Other places that offer 'saddle fitting' courses. Are they 'proper'?
17:55 CPD and refresher weeks
18:05 Pumpkin snores to steal the show... tut tut
18:54 A plea to support my channel, and for you to send me some ideas for future videos
20:35 If I did my time again, how I would do it

Some useful links for anyone considering this sort of work as a career:

Society of Master Saddlers: https://bit.ly/35fX3DQ
The Lady Saddler: https://bit.ly/3rWtOQm
Horses Inside Out: https://bit.ly/38je6GY
Centaur BioMechanics: https://bit.ly/396XTUv
Capel Manor College - Saddlery College: https://bit.ly/38iHBc9
Saddlery Training Centre: https://bit.ly/38hqVBJ
City & Guilds Saddlery Qualifications: https://bit.ly/3pYvxD3

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