so my last video I showed you guys that I got a western saddle that was really cool but when you get a new saddle something that happens especially with the Western one the stirrups usually go lay in the same plane as your horse but I have a solution for that and I'm going to share that with you today it's me Lisa the budget equestrian welcome back to my channel and if this is your first time here welcome so last week I shared with you guys that I got some western tack that I'm going to be using primarily on Ethan and one thing about the western saddles that is hard for me is that the stirrups face the same direction that the horses they're not twisted out like that and when you're on the horse that's what you need them to be so one solution to that is to get the fenders so that they turn out like that one way you can do this is using a broom stick so you just take your broom stick and you put it through the stirrups cuz that's how you're gonna be on the horse anyway I think yeah it'll be like that they twist it through maybe and that will help to keep your stirrups turned the direction that you want them to be or you can get these handy little things they're called stirrup Turner's and stirrup Turner's what you do is you put these connect these on through your stirrup and what that will do is keep your stirrup turned at a 90 degree angle to your horse so it's kind of like the MDC strips that I have from my English saddle but now I've got something for the western saddle too but it's got these little tags on it and I don't really like the tag so those are coming off and I also got some fancy stirrups so I'm gonna put those on too so the first thing you want to do is get a disassemble the stirrup which is really hard on a new saddle that's not very expensive because the leather is very stiff it's hard to get apart are you gonna take off the stirrup hobbles and I think I'll boil it too while I'm out here because this leather is super stiff western saddles are a lot more challenging than an english saddle in my opinion okay so now we're going to try to put this on and then you stir up this could be fun okay to put these on you'll need two pair of pliers one to hold the bolt on the end and the other one to turn the other side that's kind of a pain in the butt oh let's off and it's got lots of hardware lots of washers and like a lock washer thing okay so it's gonna weigh like this and then a stirrup is gonna go that way so this is how I want the stirrup to lay so I've got to make this go and go through put that through there this little guy on the lock washer or whatever it's called the other washer and then the bolts I wonder if it's like when you do an English stirrup leather checking it from your armpit it's so that might be a little bit long for me but we'll see so I got to put the stirrup hobble back on but I'm gonna oil it a little bit too cuz like I said it's really stiff don't want to waste my oil but and now my stirrup is back on I'm gonna do it to the other side well it took a while but I finally got it figured out and I'm pretty excited to see how it will be to ride in the saddle with the stirrups like this I'm hoping it's gonna be just like my MDC stirrups I'm pretty sure it will be because the stirrups are facing at a 90 degree angle just like my other stirrups do so that will help my knees that's one of the biggest benefits I found to having your stirrups face out like this all the time especially if you have knee or ankle problems it will really help to alleviate that I can speak from personal experience so if this is something that you've thought about doing but didn't know where to get them or didn't want to spend a lot of money I got these on Amazon they're tough one and they were eight dollars and 79 cents so to me that's worth it just to even just to try to see if it's gonna work because like I said my MDC stirrups work great no knee pain so hopefully this will be the same thank you so much for watching my video today I'd love to have you subscribe to my channel just click on my picture at the end of this video you can subscribe to my channel and you'll never miss another video again thank you so much for watching and until next time stay passionate and enjoy your ride you