JowAngel wrote:
So you have to ride english because that's the saddle you have? Or because that's what the lady wants you to ride on her horses? Either way, if you know how to ride...period....you should be able to figure out the english side of it. I mean, they're mainly the same basic points of balance and fluidity and timing of cues. You want to keep your leg under your center of balance, which may be further back than western. But see, I don't know western so it's hard for me to say.

Centered Riding by Sally Swift is a good book you might want to look into getting. It starts at the basics but not too boring. I like the way she explained herself too.

I have western saddles too. It's just that everyone else I know that I used to work with in the horse world around here either don't acknowledge me or aren't the business anymore. So, if someone I know, who knows my experience with horses wants me to ride and is willing to let me use her horse to learn, I am taking advantage of that.

There's a little live and let live in you.
A little bit of wonder.
Unchanged. Unknown. Yet somehow, larger than life.
It's the child part. The wild part.
The part that keeps us on our toes.