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TESTIMONIALS
***UPDATED***
“Last fall we had our
first mishap when one of our horses, spooked by wildlife, parted company with
his rider. I was directly behind this horse and witnessed your stirrup breaking
away even before the rider hit the ground. Other than being a little shaken,
the rider was fine. The paint gelding involved is again proving that any horse
can spook at any given time.”
-- Tom Heenan, PA
“Frankly I wouldn’t
ride any horse without STI stirrups. They do cost more {than} other types
of safety stirrups, but I feel if they never have to breakaway to save one of
us, I still won’t regret buying them.”
--John Flinchum, CO
“I just called to tell you your stirrups work.
I had a horse fall on the ice. I
know where my feet were. It
happened pretty fast. The horse
jumped up and took off on me and that stirrup and I stayed on the ground.
Those stirrups work.”
-Dave Shipp, Wyoming
“...Last fall we had our first mishap when one of our horses, spooked
by wildlife, parted company with his rider.
I was directly behind this horse and witnessed your stirrup breaking away
even before the rider hit the ground. Other
than being a little shaken, the rider was fine.
The paint gelding involved is gentle, well mannered and well acclimated
to his environment, again proving that any horse can spook at any given time.
Bottom line, your stirrups, when put to the test, worked as advertised.
An occurrence that could have been very serious turned out to be rather
uneventful, thanks in part to your stirrups.”
-Tom Heenan
Tidioute, PA
“...I ordered a second pair of stirrups and now both my wife and I ride
in STI stirrups and we show them to people who never have seen anything like
them. Frankly, I wouldn’t ride
any horse without STI stirrups. They
do cost more [than] other types of safety stirrups, but I feel if they never
have to breakaway to save one of us, I still won’t regret buying them.”
-John Flinchum
Longmont, CO
“On behalf of the United States Forest Service on the Shoshone National
Forest I am writing in appreciation for the research and development of the
safety breakaway stirrups. On the
Shoshone National Forest we feel confident enough with this breakaway stirrup
and understand the benefits, we have made it a mandatory requirement for all
employees to ride with these safety stirrups.”
-Ron A. Ostrum
Cody, WY
-Bud Burnett, Roundup, MT was practicing roping a dummy on a colt, and
rode up to take the rope off the dummy. When
he bent down, the colt ducked out from under him.
The stirrup hit the ground before he did.
He said, “The stirrups worked” and he ordered two more pairs.
-Jeff Diercks, former PRCA bull rider from Billings, MT was on a hunting
trip up in the mountains wearing packs. When
he stepped on his horse, with one foot in the stirrup, his horse shied about 10
feet to the side, stretching his leg out to full length.
The stirrup released and when his foot hit the ground, the stirrup was
still around his foot, detached from the saddle.
His comment was “Tell ‘em they work!”
-Sandy Jacobs, Billings, MT was trailing cattle and, as usual, “the
cows weren’t going where they were supposed to.”
She set off at a lope. An
irrigation ditch abruptly appeared in front of her.
As she went to check the horse, it fell.
Her stirrups broke away and she fell free as the horse rolled virtually
upside down in the ditch. It took a
truck to pull the horse over to where he could climb out, uninjured, and back on
his feet. If the stirrups hadn’t
come free, “my leg would have been stuck right underneath him,” she
says.
Why we do what we do? We are tired
of hearing the
horror stories of a preventable dragging.
“Tomorrow I get my cast off and put into
a brace – was bucked off my 2 yr old colt, hung up in the left stirrup, broke my
ankle and 5 screws put in to put it back together. So far the bills are over
$7600 and we haven’t gotten anything from the doctor yet. Ugh. Will see if I’m
going to be able to ride again…”
--Michelle Sundin, OR
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