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Nice question is from Mary and hers was how should I sit in the saddle and I think that's a perfect question because we all talk about riding, and we should be doing this, and we should be doing this but let's just get the basics right let's think about what we as writers have to do and how should we be sitting in the saddle, so a lot of writers may have the fault of their leaning a little too far back and that means their legs are coming forward they'll never be able to effectively go with the horse in walk trot or canter because they're always behind the movement and the legs are too free to swing because they're they're not sitting straight with their legs down they can't get the weight down through the ankle because it's too much like this the other fault we see writers do is that they're sitting too much on their crutch, so their seat bones aren't even connected to the saddle because the seat bones are out and the legs are back annoying the horse as well as not giving direct Made's and the rider again probably feels very unsteady worried that they're about to fall off because they pitched so far forward now that's really two exaggerations normally you'll just see, so that's a little too far with the legs too far forward and that's a little too with the legs too far back and in cases of sitting with the horse millimeters do matter so the seat that you're always looking for, and it can sometimes change in varying degrees, but you're always looking for your ankle to match your hip to match your shoulder so if you've got a line going through from shoulder hip heel then you're where you need to be there should also be a line going from your elbow rest to the horse's mouth, so you can see if I hold my reins up here I've now broken the line it goes my line now goes up and down rather than if I keep my hands in a nice position and the horse has its head where it not wants to be I've got a nice line from elbow wrist hand open see writers sometimes ride with their hands in like this which also breaks the line now my line is going in and then back out and when you ride like this or if you ride like this with your hands a little too far out again my lines gone angle-angle you can't feel what the horse's mouth is doing and it's so important when you're writing feel, and you're writing you know the horse round and through and riding the horse into the correct contact that you can feel everything that horse does because you need to be quick to soften you need to be quick to give the horse the rein, and you can't feel that if your reins and your hands are too stiff and too forceful, so it's really important to I think this line is the most important and this line I can feel because I know I need to have my two seat bones in the horse's back so even if is your horse is still, or you can have someone ride actually Wow alright so really important to have someone hold the horse let me just put him here, so he can't run away um but yeah I would put my hands...