Bits and bitting...

I was reading another blog yesterday (which I refuse to link to because it just ticks me off). This anonymous blogger posted a photo of the Sherry Cervi 3 piece lifter.

Then proceeded to tear it apart as a highly leveraged torture device used by "gamers" to torment and abuse their poor horses. (Personally, I think it's ironic that she posted the short shank version).

Of course, she rides hunter/jumpers and has that opinion that any horse not ridden in a french link snaffle bit is poorly trained and poorly ridden. Any horse, in her opinion, that doesn't ride in a french link needs to be further trained. (And, of course, barrel horses are poorly trained, poorly ridden abused animals.)

That just boggles my mind.

A bit is a tool and each tool is designed to do a specific thing. With all the bits out there, why would you limit yourself to one tool in the toolbox? It's like trying to put in screws with a hammer even though you have a perfectly good screwdriver.

O well. I'll continue to use my horrible, horrible leverage bits and hope that somewhere she sees this picture of one of my favoritest bits of all time...

...and gets a nosebleed from being too high up on her High Horse.