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Photo # 4: (Current freebie!) This is Brigit again! With a different horse...
Brigit, like your other picture, this picture also shows a position that is very solid. You strike me as a very strong and athletic rider. I could make a comment that your heels could be lower, but since your leg is so solid and your upper body is perfectly balanced over your leg, I wouldn't even worry about it.
George Morris would probably make a comment that your back is slightly rounded, but not me. :) In eventing, all that matters is that you are balanced and effective, which you obviously are. I like that your seat is close to the saddle, and that your center of gravity is back towards the middle of the saddle. And yes, your release is way more generous than in your last picture, giving this horse complete freedom to use himself in the air.
This horse has plenty of scope and power, but in this picture he is jumping a little out of balance. I suspect that he can jump in much better form than this. This type of unbalanced jump is usually caused by the horse jumping out of a strung out or stiff canter stride. So I suspect he just didn't have a particularly balanced canter coming into this jump. I would do lots of flatwork in the canter with this horse to shift his balance point back. Lots of half halts and transitions forward and back in the canter.
Re-read Question # 3 and Question # 13. Implementing the concepts discussed in both of those would be very useful for this horse, particularly the adjustability exercise outlined in detail in Question # 13.
Best of luck to you Brigit, I see big things in your future!
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