[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Out side shoulder I think is refering to when you are making a turn which shoulder is on the outside of the turn. Ex. If you are turning to the left, the right shoulder is "outside". Make sense? Would that fit the context you are using?

Becky

[CindyDawg]

Not really. I'm teaching myself to trot and I want to do it correctly. Before I was told to sit. I was reading that you don't just sit for a sitting trot though and that that should come after posting. I was reading that I should be rising out of the saddle as the outside shoulder goes forward and to sit when it comes back. If the outside is by the fence ( left or right depending on your direction, right? ) then which is the outside when you aren't in the pens? Or have I got it backwards? :'(