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In your Dressage seat, let your legs hang quietly down - close to your horse's sides for easy and intimate communication, but not tight, which would lessen your ability to communicate in a subtle manner.
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The fastest way to get where you're going is to take your time.
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"The quality of the seat determines whether we can even speak of 'riding', or whether the horse simply has to 'deal with' the load on his back." ~ Kurt Albrecht
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Thinking about keeping your head up and still throughout the jumping motion will help to keep your upper body more quietly poised over fences.
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"The seat and weight aids are supporting aids. They support either a leg or rein aid, or both. Don’t underestimate their significance though. They are important aids, especially in the fine tuning of advanced horses. The leg and rein aids will fail to achieve their full effectiveness without
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"Amateurs ride from movement to movement. Professionals ride from half halt to half halt." ~ Robert Dover
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A good horse will forgive you when you make a mistake - and expects you to do the same.
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"For me, the walk is indispensible. If a horse is not walking correctly – extended, collected, two tracks with all the lateral work – then he doesn’t show that he is relaxed, supple, together. I do it all the time, with young horses, with educated horses, I do some lateral
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"A rider interfering with the rein on the way down to fence is fundamentally dangerous." ~ William Fox Pitt
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If you ask for too much angle in any lateral movement (more than your horse can handle at that moment,) you risk impeding the balance and fluidity of the movement, which should be your top priorities.
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Riders who put in the time and effort to learn theory will go much further in this sport.
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Always keep your spine stretched upward when riding. When you slump, your head and shoulders will become "heavy", and your horse will likely become heavy in your hands.
