{"id":3523,"date":"2024-05-23T06:24:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T06:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empiresaddles.com\/onze-ambassadeurs\/maarten-van-stek\/"},"modified":"2024-06-02T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T10:22:48","slug":"maarten-van-stek","status":"publish","type":"ambassadeurs","link":"https:\/\/empiresaddles.com\/en\/onze-ambassadeurs\/maarten-van-stek\/","title":{"rendered":"Maarten van Stek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the past five years I have been riding several horses on Empire saddles: William, Grace Jones, Habakuk and also my wonder mare Kenzie have been fitted with an Omani through Akash Saddlery. Of course with &#8220;TreeClix inside! Quite a few of my students now also ride an Empire saddle.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Omani is not only a very nice saddle to look at, but gives me support where needed without being coercive. It has a deep seat, the monoflap gives a nice close contact feel, and the rockers leave my knees free, allowing me to ride with a long, relaxed leg.<\/p>\n\n<p>Because of the cushions placed under the frame of the saddle with a wide saddle rail, my horses have a lot of freedom of movement in the topline. The built-in TreeClix system ensures optimal positioning and can be easily adjusted at every stage of training.<\/p>\n\n<p>I have owned and tried many different saddles in my 40-year career; however, thanks to the unfailing service and care of Akash Saddlery and Jolanda van der Leeden, I am now very wedded to my Empire saddles! And &#8211; more importantly &#8211; so did my horses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past five years I have been riding several horses on Empire saddles: William, Grace Jones, Habakuk and also my wonder mare Kenzie have been fitted with an Omani through Akash Saddlery. Of course with &#8220;TreeClix inside! Quite a few of my students now also ride an Empire saddle. The Omani is not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2964,"template":"","class_list":["post-3523","ambassadeurs","type-ambassadeurs","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empiresaddles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ambassadeurs\/3523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empiresaddles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ambassadeurs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empiresaddles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ambassadeurs"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empiresaddles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empiresaddles.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}