At what age do we stop bouncing & start to break?

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Suddenly the ground seems much harder than it used to, I definitely bounced in my teens and was pretty good at soft landings in my twenties but thirties - pah no chance apparently I'm now the weight of concrete but break like fine porcelain :o

What is the point at which we stop bouncing and start to break ??
 
I'm early forties and I reckon about 4/5 years ago I started to break (and to lose the desire to jump on anything and have a go :()
 
44 for me, and now at over 50 I need to take the pain relief BEFORE I get on !!

The last decent fall I had was in water (total submersion) which gave me a cushion thank god, but I tell you what, I had sand where a girl shouldn't have sand and it was a very long hack home with water dripping out of my axxe with many strange looks from passing motorists.
 
I last tested the ground age 50, a high speed somersault hitting it face first - I got a nosebleed and a fat lip but really a pathetic amount of bruising. The only highlight of the evening was the nurse raising her eyebrows at me in A&E when I told her my age :o apparently I am old enough to know better :cool:
 
I used to bounce and break in my late teens, now in my 50's I just break :(

The last time was about 5 years ago when I fractured my skull and shoulder. Now I stick to watching my 20yr old daughter bounce (not very often as I think she has more sticking power than me)
 
I definitely break now and I've just turned 30. First fall in about 12 years was two months ago before I turned 30, and I'm still feeling it now even though I didn't break any bones :o Has cost me a fortune in osteopaths appointments trying to get right
 
I stopped bouncing and broke May 2011 aged 31 :(

Seems to possibly be a theme starting...
 
touch wood no breakages but definitely no bouncing now and i'm 41, it doesn't make sense though, my butt has way more padding than it did when i was in my teens so why does it not provide more cushioning in a fall:confused::o
 
oh dear, sounds like the 30's have it at the moment with the exception of some better riders :p

...or maybe it's not that we stop bouncing at 30 but just that stickability goes - pass the super glue :o
 
This 30 ish thing is worrying. You all need to get taller horses because there is more time from ejection to crash landing to sort out which bit touches down first. !
 
Ibblebibble said:
touch wood no breakages but definitely no bouncing now and i'm 41, it doesn't make sense though, my butt has way more padding than it did when i was in my teens so why does it not provide more cushioning in a fall:confused::o
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I'm 44 and since I've come back to riding after a very long break. I've been back in the saddle for about a year but haven't yet fallen off. I realise it's about 25 years since I've fallen off.... so am absolutely dreading it. I know it's bound to happen at some point. (Especially given my riding ability and lack of balance).

I used to fall off very regularly but I'm well aware that I probably won't bounce (despite plenty of padding) as well as I used to!:D
 
AdorableAlice said:
This 30 ish thing is worrying. You all need to get taller horses because there is more time from ejection to crash landing to sort out which bit touches down first. !
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I was thinking smaller, less distance to fall - although taller could give a chance to deploy the parachute :D:D:D
 
I stopped bouncing at 33, I did have a large breaking incident in my early 20's but I don't count that as it wasn't due to falling off, I stayed on him all the way up and over...which was what caused the breakages :(.... I think the other factor is the kiss of death phrase 'I'm lucky I just bounce' which I was heard to utter shortly before hitting the deck and not bouncing when I reached the dreaded 33 :o
 
The only thing about me that has ever bounced are two size E bits of me on the front! I don't fall off a lot, but when I do, despite also having plenty of padding, I land flat on my back, heavy enough to start an earth tremor, and lie there winded!

Since I turned 40, and having been off work injured for a year (now back), I have got more worried about putting myself in a situation where I might break and have to worry about how to pay the bills!
 
My entire body started giving up at 30! 3 ops on my hand, simultaneous packing in of my thyroid, last May did my back, knee and ankle in then had abdominal surgery in January :/ Add to that regular scalpel and needle stabs at work = loads of tablets a day now :D got 2 youngsters to back in the next couple years, God help me!!! I am so useless, lol..
 
First broke age 31, now my back is a on going problem so no more sorting horses with issues and riding safe horses now. Boring!!!
 
Actually I'm down sizing, 17hh far to far to fall now so I have a 15.2 and a highland youngster coming on nicely to make 14.1.
 
The only thing of mine still bouncing at the age of 47 are my breasts. :D
Apart from that I've come to the sad realisation that my body is much older than my brain. My no bounce but break (so far) have been non horse related.
Last year I was running down the stairs at home and jumped the last step as I always have since I was a kid. Landed lightly, heard a rip and thought oh no tore my trousers. The noise was the sound of my calf muscle ripping in two. :eek:
Just started a new job which gets me off my bum and doing some physical work. Climbed up into a large lorry to search it and thought my knee was a bit sore afterward. Then yesterday I had to bend down to search a person (I work in security) and felt a twang and a ping in my knee. I now sporting a torn ligament, soft tissue damage and carrying a rather noticeable limp.
I'm now rather nervous again at the thought of starting to school my boy over jumps as I know now that one wrong move and someone will find my non-bouncing and broken body in a hedge somewhere.
 
I was trying to hop out of a horses way today and he hit me while both feet were off the ground. I think it was the equivalent of the perfect martial art throw but without the benefit of the landing mat. I'm 53 and if it hurts this much just being knocked off my own feet I dread what it'd be like if I got chucked off the horse. Ouch..limps away to run hot bath where I can ponder the wisdom of future riding plans.
 
The last "sore" one i got was 47 and i damaged my acromioclavicular joint, it was feckin sore, got back on and did walk trot and canter again as he'd launched me by being a diddy. I then chucked his rug on and put him out, i was crying by then it was so sore. Tried to drive to A&E but had to pull in as every bump in the road was agony, didnt break it but busted the joint up, had to get a mate come for me, doc said it would have healed quicker as a break, that said, the pain relief was good and i had massages to keep the joint as good as i could. Didnt lose a day off work, and still managed to ride, but it was a pantomime to get on and off.
Took another header coming to a jump on a bad stride, in oct last year, horse went one way i went the other lol, was ok after that .
So for me it was late 40's i used to climb on anything, but im not so keen now, will do it if its for one of mine, but not for others, unless it was a good mate.
 
Honey08 said:
The only thing about me that has ever bounced are two size E bits of me on the front! I don't fall off a lot, but when I do, despite also having plenty of padding, I land flat on my back, heavy enough to start an earth tremor, and lie there winded!

Since I turned 40, and having been off work injured for a year (now back), I have got more worried about putting myself in a situation where I might break and have to worry about how to pay the bills!
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Tehhe ! the last time I came off in front of my friends, they said the Council must be contacted to see if they wanted the tipping rights for the hole in the ground I had made !!

As Honey08 says, work is a problem. Being off sick is tricky, especially in these recesssion hit years. My colleagues put 'cold' or upset tum on their sick notes. My last 2 had broken ankle following horse landing on me when it jumped off the lorry ramp and broken fingers turning a horse out.

The other week I limped round the office after the bull knocked a gate off the hinges and it hit me good and proper. They all think I am totally dotty.
 
AdorableAlice said:
As Honey08 says, work is a problem. Being off sick is tricky, especially in these recesssion hit years. My colleagues put 'cold' or upset tum on their sick notes. My last 2 had broken ankle following horse landing on me when it jumped off the lorry ramp and broken fingers turning a horse out.

The other week I limped round the office after the bull knocked a gate off the hinges and it hit me good and proper. They all think I am totally dotty.
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oh la! Know the problem, I broke myself and was off work for a month - oops! Although have worked for the company for over 10yrs and never had more than 2 days a yr off sick but rather awkwardly it's a medical insurance company, ah well came in handy when I needed surgery :D

Boss asked me last week whether I fell off often, 'no' I replied haven't come off in years (my last horse was retired for 4-5 yrs before we said goodbye and I've come off the new boy twice in the 5 months that I've owned him :o)
 
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