Thanks to twitter I saw an advert for bloggers wanted by eGlove to review their eQuest riding gloves that allow you to operate touchscreens. eGlove kindly sent me a pair of their GripPro riding gloves and I have been putting them through their paces.
I was interested to try them as I often use my phone for various tasks while exercising my horse, the main one being setting the timer for interval training and lunging. Now this often ends up with me removing a glove to set the timer which often ends up with one of two outcomes, me either dropping the glove or the phone when my horse senses an opportunity too good to miss as I'm not in full control trying to manage reins, whip and gloves in one hand!
The gloves arrived very quickly and I was impressed with the quality and lightweight material when I looked at them. I went for them in black and size medium and the sizing was spot on. I thought I would do a thorough test so also attempted tacking up with them on just to see how easy it would be, I have to say the feel through the gloves made doing up buckles as easy as without gloves on and I normally have to take them off to get the girth done up for extra grip. Task one passed with flying colours, good grip, feel and even managed doing up the noseband one handed while taking photo!
Next test was obviously the 'horse ear view', we've all done it riding along and you're impelled to take a photo though the best view in the world... your horses ears! You are not alone even the professionals can be seen snapping away to upload to Facebook and Twitter their view of the day. Obviously I had to include the gloves to prove it was a legitimate eGlove taken photo so my attempt was a half horse ear view of grass but without the need to stuff the other glove in my hand, mouth or chaps it took seconds to snap away and all the icons worked first time, no bulky fingers or the 'if I just tap the screen harder it might work', so task two passed now onto the reason I wanted to try the gloves in the first place, for using the timer on my phone.
I thought I'd test them whilst lunging and riding, I always set a timer to ensure my horse works equally on each rein on the lunge and also for interval training so needed both on and off the horse. Also when interval training the horse can get quite sweaty making the reins slippery, so will the gloves still work in these conditions? The answer is yes, great grip for both lunging and riding and also with a bit of rain included while we were riding I still had good feel down the reins. The alarm goes and I am able to work the phone to get the timer set for a quick cool down before we repeat on the other rein. Task complete and another success.
Overall the gloves were a nice fit, felt comfortable and performed well as a riding glove giving excellent feel on the reins. Different weather conditions didn't reduce the effectiveness of them when using my phone and the slim fit enabled you to easily use your touchscreen while wearing them. Would I recommend them? Yes I would and I think I may even get myself a white pair for competing!
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