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So this may seem a little different but yesterday I came off at our first competition back... It was my 2nd class and after placing well in the first I got a bit eager. I’d planned my turns etc in the j/o and was coming up to a double. Pony put another stride in (completely understandable and not his fault AT ALL) I lost my balance (pretty pathetic that I didn’t sit it tbh), everything went black and next thing I knew I was laying on the floor. I got bad concussion After smashing into the 2nd element of the double and had no memory of before the jump or after. It’s started to come back now tho I still don’t remember afterwards up to a certain point.
Anyway whilst I had complete control of the pony I was going at a decent pace (as u do in a jump off) and with a decent distance between the double and previous jump I guess I got a bit too cocky for our first comp back. The concussion is making me feel emotions 10x over and I feel completely and utterly stupid for going at speed- Tho I wasn’t going faster than usual and had seen riders going round faster before... still though

so drop below your big fail stories that we’re caused by total rider error to make me feel like it’s not just me who can be a total idiot :( We learn from every fall but I’m sure most riders know what it’s like to feel guilty :(
 
The funniest I’ve ever done and wish I’d been alone is: I got off to do a gate to go into the forest. My old horse was a devil for not standing still when mounting as had no patients at all. I was starting to struggle getting on from the ground as my back wasn’t great. So I put in full effort to get back on and somehow managed to catapult myself off the other side!! My friends nearly wet themselves and my usually fidgety ass mare just stood and looked at me as though to say “how the hell did you manage that!!”?. Honestly. No idea!!! Don’t think I could do it again if I tried!! Needless to say next time I told them it was always their turn to do the gates!!
 
My husband has never let me forget the time I went before the bell and got eliminated.
 
Also daughter was placed in her first class. Next class she was held up for ages and ages as someone got injured and they had to wait for the ambulance before restarting the class. Daughter and pony went in, tripped over the first fence and went splat!
 
Not quite a fall, but on a sponsored ride many years back my horse decided to drop and roll out of nowhere on a sandy patch. I was hysterically laughing so hard I nearly got rolled on whilst my alarmed friend shrieked to get out the way. Was an interesting story to tell at the next break stop that’s for sure!
 
Pulled in first in a WHP class at a county show. Pony stood like an angel until he felt the judges eyes on him, at which point he yanked his head down, pulled me forward onto his neck, then took a step backwards - I slithered down his neck, and faceplanted on the ground. he then fecked off out of the ring, and went back to the lorry.
 
FestiveFuzz said:
Not quite a fall, but on a sponsored ride many years back my horse decided to drop and roll out of nowhere on a sandy patch. I was hysterically laughing so hard I nearly got rolled on whilst my alarmed friend shrieked to get out the way. Was an interesting story to tell at the next break stop that’s for sure!
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Mine did this at a clinic once, I was there alone and in an arena full of very posh looking women on their warmbloods. My little fell really showing us up that day!
 
asmp said:
My husband has never let me forget the time I went before the bell and got eliminated.
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You are in good company. Back when my late mum was branch secretary, our Pony Club horse trials team was all set to win the annual interbranch competition. The last member of the team to SJ only had to jump a decent round and we had it in the bag.

And she started her round before the bell :oops:. Ding ding! Team eliminated.

The very forlorn competitor, one Virginia Holgate, was told to stop snivelling by her no nonsense mother, and to apologise to her fellow team members. I imagine that she didn’t make that mistake again during her later illustrious international career!
 
Well I fell off today my horse spooked at a Shetland pony. It a new yard my horse is not completely settled. My worst fall was on a runway cob then bucked me into a arena fence . i was Viewing the cob I ended up broken wrist and concussion I wish people would not lie on horses for sale ads .
 
So, there I am, in fancy dress taking out the Halloween hack for the advanced kids. I have no idea how I managed it - but I ended up not managing to sit down in the saddle, but sitting down on the yard floor with six kids laughing hysterically and the saint of a horse standing there looking at me and I swear he was saying "how, just how?"
 
Showing off as an idiot teenager on a little barrel of a pony that bucked like mad but was usually easy to sit to. The whole saddle with me sitting on it came off over his head and landed on the ground in front of him, I was still holding the reins. Even worse the YO's son and DIL were riding past on the other side of the hedge and saw the whole thing.

Also many years ago, XC training, we were messing about in the water whilst waiting our turn to be called for the next jump and when they called me I was too busy laughing and made no effort at all. Very genuine horse, with no direction at all from the rider, got too close and threw in a huge leap which threw me into orbit and I landed nowhere near the horse.
 
Came off in my first ever dressage test. I'd nearly finished when horse stumbled and I came off sideways. I was lying on the floor slightly winded thinking you stupid ****** cow. Even the judge came over to see if I was OK. Very embarrassing. Despite being eliminated I got back on and finished the test. Despite all this I'd actually got a decent score up until I came off.
 
Best fall was in a dressage test. Set off down the long side in medium canter. Horse then stepped on the very end of the board. The board flipped up and round towards him. I landed on the floor and horse stopped on other side of arena. Me, the horse, judge and organiser all wondering what on earth just happened!
 
Cantering in a circle, no spook, not going too fast, and I, for no reason I can think of, just slithered off the side onto the floor ?‍♀️

To this day I couldn’t tell you what happened ?
 
Oh I fall off all the time!

Got bucked off in the warmup of the arena festival second round ?.

Not me falling, but my top hat fell off in my first advanced test...

Worst fall, managed to rotationally fall over an 80cm show jump and break my collarbone.
 
I had a crashing fall very similar to yours OP. At RC show jumping and had entered two classes. That morning my escapologist of a basset hound had done a disappearing act and not wanting to miss my jumping I hacked off up to the local EC. I jumped first round clear and some one kindly told me they had seen my dog so i whizzed off to catch him, returning ASAP for my second class I was, like you, a bit too determined and in the jump off I saw a corner I could cut going into the double. Very keen pony saw it too!! Consequence was she took off with a mighty leap over the first part of the double from an impossible angle and landed fair and square in the wing of the second part. We both hurt our shoulders and it took some time before she was confident jumping doubles again.
 
Best parent fail though... I was at PC camp. It was hot. Dealing with the first ride of the day, only one mounting block. So I was going down the line legging up all these somewhat lumpen teenagers onto taller horses.... got to DD aged 9 or 10 I think, tiny mite. Smaller horse. I threw her right over the top. Bless her she manged to swing her legs together and land neatly on the other side of the pony!
 
At a RC x country comp. We approached the brush jump, i was committed, pony said she was too but they'd refreshed the brush since we practiced and it appeared about a foot higher and she slammed on the brakes She hit her shins hard but I ended up standing at her shoulder holding the reins.
 
Fell off when my pony spooked at..............
a bale of hay. It must have looked at him wrongly, but he dumped me & pissed off.

Also fallen off in halt when he nearly rolled, decided not to & flopped me off out the side door.
 
On a quiet Sunday morning group hack on the most bomb proof pony, I had been riding him for probably 5-6 years at this point. We're not even at the end of the lane, just toddling along at a walk and one minute I'm in the saddle and the next minute I'm sitting on gravel and neither me, the pony or anyone else including the person behind me knows what happened. Group leader comes back to ask what was going on and I couldn't even tell him ?

The one I still feel bad about was probably 15 years ago by now, I was riding another girl's pony who was a fab jumper but I was... not. She got a bit whizzy and my instructor is basically yelling not to let her fall out to the wall as she can see what's about to happen. I do not catch on quickly enough and bless this pony she jumps the flipping wing that's against the wall of the school. I obviously come flying off, thankfully on the inside and she steps on the loose reins and gives everyone in the school a heart attack but manages herself perfectly. Nobody hurt, nothing damaged, Penney was probably just proud of herself tbh because she cleared the damn thing but I will carry the guilt of the Almost probably forever!
 
At a show quite a few years ago now, my coach pulled her groin warming up her spicy mare. She was in so much pain, there was no way she could compete. I hopped on and rode in her first class. It was an Equitation class and I won! The next class, the jumps went up a bit so a coop went into the course under one of the jumps. I’d only ridden that mare about half a dozen times and wasn’t prepared for her to throw on the brakes at the last possible moment in front of coop. I went flying off over her head. The show photographer captured the moment of my legs cartwheeling over her head beautifully. I remember laughing out loud when I saw the picture online. Was a walk of shame leaving the ring though.

No witnesses for this next one but one time I went to hop on horse bareback from mounting block. I intended to lay on my stomach and then swing legs over. Apparently my legs are stronger than I thought because I overjumped and literally somersaulted over the horse. The mare I was riding at time turned her head to look at me. The look she gave me clearly said, “you are pathetic and I’m embarrassed for both of us”.
 
I fell off (if you could call it a fall) when walking back to the lorry after a day hunting (2nd fall of the day). I was leading my daughters pony (for some reason daughter wanted to walk) and said pony stopped for a wee but my mare didnt. I ended up being lifted off the horse, one arm in front and one behind, and plonked on the wet grass on my bum by the side of the road in front of a long stream of cars. I have never got up and dusted myself down quicker!

The last time was when me and the ginger one had a disagreement and she nipped round the outside of a xc fence in a lovely semi circle and then jumped the rope. Last thing i remember was thinking 'oh god, not again' as had fell off in the showjumping and the next was a paramedic looking at me and me giving them grief for undoing the zip on my back protector!

I seem to do it in 2's o_O
 
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