 When you ride a horse, you're an athlete. This is an athletic event. Any kind of an equestrian event you have to be athletic on a horse's back. So I have come up with what I feel like is right. I've listened to Buster Welch and Shorty Freeman and and Don Dodge and Matt Locke. Matt Locke was a big guru of mine and they all ride similar but with a little bit of difference. You know Matt Locke rode flat-bottom stirrups, Buster Shorty rode the oxbow. I've just come accustomed to using the oxbow. I won't lose a stirrup when I have an oxbow. It has its round as you see much like an oxbow where the other one is a flat stirrup usually about two and a half inches wide. A lot of people use that and put their toes in there. I don't like losing stirrups so I use the oxbow and put my foot all the way in. Now you realize to sit on this horse you have to be sitting in an athletic position. If you're not sitting in an athletic position with his as powerful and as many stops and turns as they have he's apt to lose you. So you have to be in the athletic position. Now I play a lot of sports in school many of you have too and when they tell you what I noticed is no matter what sport that you're in whether it be baseball, basketball, football, tennis, shooting pool, wrestling, any sport at all has the same stance. I was a pole baller in track and I started out with the same stance. I'm going to show you that stance. That coach always tells you get your feet shoulder width apart, turn them slightly outward, bend your knees, get your back bend a little bit and you get in this position. If you're playing baseball, you're playing football, you're playing basketball, it doesn't make any difference. If you're running track the fish will go down the track. Same thing, feet shoulder width apart, toes slightly outward, bend your knees, bend your back. Now where I look at it