i’d like to add that the terrain has a huge amount to do with things, how your form and your balance affects the horse. our hunt country can be very steep and at times rocky. i’ve literally waterskiied down a super steep trail, practically laying on the horse’s butt and keeping it’s front end up and haunches underneath for balance, then at the bottom , had to get immediatly into 2 point to gallop on to keep up with the hounds…very physical, and much more of a range that one does with one’s body, if the terrain is radical…and of course different horses require a different set of tools, depending on how they are built and how they move. JMO
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Go foxhunt…then come back and you can tell us. I’ll bet you’ll have your answer after a mad 30-45 minute run behind a pack of hounds screaming on a hot line for miles over hill and dale.[/QUOTE]
Gothedistance, you just gave me goosebumps! 
I can’t wait to go hunting tomorrow…
I just wandered onto a thread from 2008 about field hunters vs show hunters while looking for clothing advice. JSwan referred to that exagerrated release as the “cat in heat/preying mantis position” and I almost died laughing. Very descriptive!
