Body awareness is a key component to clear aids and movement in the saddle. But if you don’t understand the individual movement of each joint, it gets very hard to understand how each contributes to your position, let alone how to control them. If we focus on the lower body only, rotation at the hip, knee and ankle are pretty essential for determining where and how we apply our aids, or even how well our leg can lay against the side of the horse. Obviously you’re not actually going to move in th