I get all the instructions except the Rotate at the hip till your knees and feet are pointed forward????
How do you rotate your hips and keep your knees and feet forward????
Becky
You can't picture it because you're used to already having your leg in the right position. When new folk stand in the saddle, usually their knees and feet end up pointing east and west.
So the instruction should be, if your feet and knees ~aren't~ pointed forward, rotate at the hip until they are.
What that excercise does is stretch you down to where your foot is firmly in the stirrup and your heels are down.
Too often, if someone is sitting atop the saddle, and someone says 'put your heels down', they'll rotate at the ankle and just bring the toe up, actually ending up with less weight in the stirrups, rather than more, and they lose them.