Jill remembered the crash course Jo had given her before the Peter Young dressage clinic she had registered for. Jo showed up on a mission that day and she said "we are going to FIX the way you pump with your upper body at canter" and she put Stoney on the lunge line so she could control him (while he behaved like a dumb jerk) and she made Jill drop my stirrups (which she never did with him because he always got so uptight about it) and she made them keep bouncing through all this mayhem and it wasn't working. Indeed, Jill was almost falling off and he was rushing and fretting but she was insisting you know because she did not want to be embarassed by her student in front of her teacher.
Eventually Jo even made Jill hold on to the saddle with her hands like a total beginner would (when breaking the rules) so that she could hold my body still in the saddle, and she was embarrassed by that. But then suddenly (finally) her body like, got it and her hips softened and she was able to follow Stoney's back with hers instead of them banging against each other or whatever.
And the first thing Jo's teacher, Peter said to her at the clinic was not until after their first canter transition. He finally spoke, "you have a lovely deep seat."
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