First fall!

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Just had my first fall since i started riding again (so for 15 years!) only ridden once in the last 2 weeks due to car crash and with the wind she spooked in a 20m circle in canter and i went off the front! Actually feel better as was worried about having a fall as a grown up but it wasnt that bad! Bit annoying as am still getting over the whiplash tho. Laughed, got straight back on and was all ok, no doubt with my horsey there will be many more to come!
 
Congratulations!!!
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Well done for getting back on - hopefully that will be it for a while
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Poor you! I had a similar experience and as I was flying through the air thought 'this is going to hurt way more than it used to when I was a kid'. Fortunately I landed on my backside, so nice soft landing then...
 
the first fall (or first fall after a break) isn't much fun, but it is SUCH a relief to get it over with ! I fell off the Share Mare for the first time the day before New Year's Eve, at a flat-out gallop, which really hurt, and I didn't get back on her that day. I fell off her AGAIN two days later, at walk, which was less painful but more embarrassing. This time she got a good session in the school straight after.

Getting straight back on is definitely the best thing you can possibly do.
 
I had a similar experience over Christmas
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I have just started to ride again after a similar (or longer) gap, and made the mistake of going out in a NEW COAT. Now we all know about 'new gear syndrome'. I got a leg caught in a vine and before I could muster the brain power to stop the horse (we were only walking), I was being dragged off and towards a very muddy puddle.

I must be related to a cat, as I actually landed on one foot. Never the less, I felt much better afterwards as I knew I was going to take a tumble sooner or later.
 
Oh this is getting the wind up me! I am going to ride a strange horse on Sunday, strange in that I have never ridden him although I have known him for ages. Not ridden for a year and actually am a capable and fairly competent rider. For some reason this break from riding has made me think about falling off - something I never really thought about as when I was riding my very spirited mare for eight years!!!
 
i know - i always owned nutters as child and never worried about falling off although i broke every bone in my body - it changes when you have a child to look after i guess. it really wasnt that bad i i got up and laughed! dont worry too much. get someone else to ride him first and dont ask for too much, enjoy!
 
Well, I had another one today, and proper 'fall on your arse' type tumble.

Out on a hack, my wife told me it was about time I had a go at jumping...COOL! Across our path is a little improvised jump two tyres high, I did what I was told and Harry and I hoped over with style.

Buoyed by my obvious natural talent for this jumping lark (don't know what all the fuss is about), I turn the Harry boy round and approach the same jump, same speed, but slightly downhill, over we go, up I go, down I come THUMP (still holding the reins) Harry looks at me as if to say ' silly man, what are you doing down there' wife is trying hard to keep her knickers dry, laughing at me. So up I get (limp), hop back on and take the jump three more times..piece of cake.

Just a good thing I was not wearing my new boots
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brilliant that made me laugh - sorry but typical bloke thing to do - my hubbie sat on my tb mare twice and the next time tried to trot and despite steering her hear first into a wall and then nearly crushing his manhood forever with some badly improvised rising trot he also wants to jump! still at least you men have guts!
 
For guts read 'no brain'.

As I approached the jump, my wife said "you're brave", of course I had no idea what she meant until about 10 seconds later, when I was heading in one direction and Harry in another.
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It was great fun, and I can't wait to have another go.
 
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