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so what wass yourr funniestt fall,, funniest one ive seen is whenn myy friends pony put her head down and the rider did a 306 degrees flip over her shoulder and onto the floor so whats yours...
 
Last year I was riding a pony, we were outdoors and it was windy so the lights where moving and making scary patterns on the floor. I was doing walk to canter, next thing I know the little git took off, did a huge buck throwing me foward, then he swerved around a jump wing so unfortunately we parted company, I landed sat down though...the funniest bit was my instructor didn't release I had come off until she saw the pony trotting around minus me :D

Oh another one when I was 6 I was trotting a little 12.2hh around the next minute he stopped dead and I went straight out the front door!
 
I think the funniest one was when I rode a friends 14.2 welsh D (Im 6 foot and looked huuuugeeee on him)
Went up to a small fence, he said no, I kicked on so he catleaped about 4 foot upwards, and on landing, spun round knowing I was unbalanced, I flew off the side.
 
Mine has to be this week I think, I was so embarrassed.
We were doing canter poles down the middle of a 20x40 school, so not a massive amount of room at the end. Bodey look a big leap at the last pole, I thought we were going right, he thought we were going left (I forgot he can’t mind read), and we parted company, whoops. Can’t believe I fell of doing ruddy poles! :eek:
 
Schooling a mare that everyone had given up on for the day. Managed to get a very nice bit of work out of her, passed the gate where everyone was watching. Madam "popped" in a buck instead of a canter stride. It was so big I somersaulted over her shoulder, landed on my feet, reins still in hands and stood up, facing forwards with the mare stood next to me! All that was needed was for me to say "ta da!" But I think I was too shocked. Just burst out laughing! My then "new other half" at the time just walked away, too shocked to do otherwise! To this day he won't talk about it. LOL
 
Touch wood, I haven't fallen off yet. But I do remember going to get on a mare at the block, all the RI and YO behind me waiting to get on, And for some reason, I end up sat on her sideways. My leg was behind the saddle, on her bum, and my bum was on her rump/flank so I was side ways. Don't know how I managed it :P
 
Out hunting last season, jumped a jump and Archie jumped it massive, I flew off and landed bum first in a nice green cow pat!!

Couple of weeks ago was having my jumping lesson, approaching a jump, Archie looked and felt like he was going to jump it, then the little git slammed on his breaks, I flew over the jump, and Archie just stood there looking at me, going 'HAHA, you wanted to jump the jump...not me!'
 
Funniest in hindsight but painful at the time...

Had been schooling my youngster for about 30 mins he had done really well so halted to get off. As I took my feet out of the stirrups for no apparent reason he took off! Did a lap of the arena bucking and as I tried to circle him he ran into the fence. Unfortunatley he was going too fast and as all 17h of him slammed all on I continued over the fence (about 3"9) and down the bank landing sat up!
 
I was riding my pony up the field bareback & leading another horse at the same time. i had my pony's lead rope in my left hand & the other horse's in my right hand. unfortunatly pony like look of grass on the right at the same time horse like look of grass on left so they crossed over & pulled in opposite direction. i did a flip in the air due to being pulled in opposite directions & landed flat on my back with horse & pony looking down at me as if to say "what are you doing down there?"
 
I'm not sure if this counts because I didn't actually manage to get on! :D

I'm five eight. Little Cob is 13.3hh. I was mounting from the ground, or at least trying to :o. Short story: I got something wrong and ended up on my bum/back with my foot still in the stirrup, tried to sort myself out and ended up lying flat on my back staring up at LC's face and him looking down at me as though to say 'What the flipping 'eck are you doing down there?!'. Don't know who was trying hard not to laugh most, D1 or LC :D

I was lame for two weeks and couldn't ride my motorbike lol
 
A few year s ago I was riding my old pony through a gate that I had often ridden through. The gate had a long handle to make it easier to open from the saddle. I was wearing a pair of long wide fitting riding boots as my legs are fat. I don't know how it happened but one minute I was riding through the gate and the next I was stuck upside down with my boot caught on the gate handle and my pony the other side of the road.The long gate handle was all the way up my boot and I was hung upside down totally unable to free myself all I could do was call for help and a man from the cottage over the hedge came and freed me I think I was too shocked to thank him properly.
 
Last year, my friend and I went on a pleasure ride. It was our first outing in a long time and my boy was really wound up. He was constantly pulling at the reins and as soon as I gave him any rein he was trying to rush off. We were riding up on a mountain and we came to a lovely ditch so I decided to jump it. He popped over it nicely but as he landed the other side, the bank collapsed and he fell in a heap. I managed to sit it but as he stood up, it collapsed a little more and I just tumbled over his head. One stirrup flew off, whizzing past my head and landed about 6 foot away and I was just sitting on the floor not quite understanding what had happened!
The funniest thing was though, after climbing back on board, Magic was so horrified that he'd lost his mother, I rode him round the next 8 miles on the buckle end of the reins. He was as quiet as a lamb! lol :D
 
teasle said:
A few year s ago I was riding my old pony through a gate that I had often ridden through. The gate had a long handle to make it easier to open from the saddle. I was wearing a pair of long wide fitting riding boots as my legs are fat. I don't know how it happened but one minute I was riding through the gate and the next I was stuck upside down with my boot caught on the gate handle and my pony the other side of the road.The long gate handle was all the way up my boot and I was hung upside down totally unable to free myself all I could do was call for help and a man from the cottage over the hedge came and freed me I think I was too shocked to thank him properly.
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LOL....I would have paid money to see that! Too funny! :D
 
Probably not funny to read, but was when I was there. I was cantering around the ring and a sheep, YES A SHEEP, ran out of the hedge under the fence and infront of my horses legs. Poor horse jumped sideways, I didnt go with her and landed on bum staring up to a confused horse and a scared sheep. Before anyone says anything, the hole has been fixed so it is impossible for anything to get in :)
 
Oh, another one :)

Dizz slipped on the road. One minute there was a long ginger neck and two ginger ears in front of me, and next there wasn't! All I could think was 'Oh no! My beautiful girl!' and then I was lying on the ground with her :o

She got her weight off my foot (nice lass) and stood up and just stood there and looked at me. Everyone was waiting round whilst I tried to get back up, in the end a nice lady across the road lent me her mounting block. I couldn't hold the rein properly in my left hand, steering and brakes were a bit interesting, and then at the end I couldn't get off - couldn't use my left arm! I had to lean down and across onto D and he practically dragged me off (no mean feat given that she was about 16.2hh then and I'm no featherweight lol).
 
My best was probably when I was 8 or 9 on a 12.2hh dun Welsh pony called Beauty who I came off more times than I can remember (that's what makes you a good rider, isn't it...?!). She bolted the length of the school, I wrapped my arms round her neck but lost balance and slipped round so I was hanging upside down as she galloped!! Fear of being trampled kept me clinging on until she stopped and I unceremoniously collapsed on the sand. Another time she bolted with me and went over a 2'9" show jump (shows how much she enjoyed jumping!), by far the biggest I'd been over at the time. I learnt a lot from that pony :)

My funniest fall was definitely off the horse though, not really relevant but I have to share. I bought a nice shiny Vespa scooter a few of years ago, picked it up from Notting Hill then parked it near my old office, right outside The Punchbowl in Mayfair (now famously owned by Guy Ritchie). It was a lovely sunny day so a load of us plus dozens of shiny hedge-fund types (pre-credit crunch of course) were outside the pub after work. I was terrified getting on my scooter in front of so many people. As I pulled away, I felt I was wobbling a bit but was too embarrassed to put my foot on the floor. Somehow I then confused the throttle and the brake, and accelerated straight through a roadworks sign, roadworks barrier, into a massive pile of sand and straight over the handlebars!! I still have a bit of red paint from the sign on the front of the scooter to remind me...

Oops, that's turned into a long post, sorry!
 
Very funny post! Teasle and j1ffy get my vote as the funniest at the moment!.

My most embarrassing was years ago when I was working as hunt groom. There was this gigantic old horse called Panda who was absolutely patent safety. He was mostly Shire and had a back like a table. Panda wasn't built for speed, but for comfort.

Anyway I was out exercising with huntsmans daughter and we decided we would jump a very small log, maybe 2ft tall. So I wound old Panda Poops up into a ponderous canter. Got closer to the log and Panda is slowing despite energetic encouragement from me. Ground to a halt in front of the log and I think b#gger and go to turn him around (a bit like turning the QE2), when he suddenly decided 'do you know I think I will jump that afterall'. I was all relaxed at this point and just somersaulted off the back end.

Never did live it down lol
 
0ldmare said:
Very funny post! Teasle and j1ffy get my vote as the funniest at the moment!.

My most embarrassing was years ago when I was working as hunt groom. There was this gigantic old horse called Panda who was absolutely patent safety. He was mostly Shire and had a back like a table. Panda wasn't built for speed, but for comfort.

Anyway I was out exercising with huntsmans daughter and we decided we would jump a very small log, maybe 2ft tall. So I wound old Panda Poops up into a ponderous canter. Got closer to the log and Panda is slowing despite energetic encouragement from me. Ground to a halt in front of the log and I think b#gger and go to turn him around (a bit like turning the QE2), when he suddenly decided 'do you know I think I will jump that afterall'. I was all relaxed at this point and just somersaulted off the back end.

Never did live it down lol
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Bwahahahaha!!! Ah you gotta love the biggies! :D
 
I didn't laugh at the time as I was embarrased, but having not ridden for over 25 years I borrowed a friends TB from down the road for a lesson. He's supposed to be a schoolmaster, and leads a quiet life. However in my 'wisdom' I thought he'd like a change of scenery, and brought him down to our fields which have more grass than his. Of course the last time he came to ours he visited for a holdiay to eat grass. I should have realised when he uncharacteristicly barged me out of the way as I opened the gate and cantered up the slope top stick his head down in lush grass... Anyhow I got on, and under daughter's instructor's supervision did a bit of walk and got trotting and started to work out my rising trot, it all pleasantly started to come back, despite the TB being a bit bouncy....when suddenly he decided to pop into canter and thought better of it, meaning his back legs cantered and threw me into the air but his front legs didn't. Or something like that said my instructor. I of course was thinking WTF is happening, and as I sailed through the air I thought 'relax you do NOT want broken bones. SO I relaxed everything and bounced. Instructor said she'd not laughed so much for ages, I was mortified, but it DID cure my chronic sciatica, so was well worth the embarrasment!

Daughter did a great one-handed cartwheel on a jump when the little Sec A she used to ride put in a naughty stop in a jump off and she sailed over her head with one hand on the jump, feet in the air, and landed on her feet the other side of the fence still holding the reins.
 
And my funniest motorcycle one (this is for j1ffy) : was working as a m/c courier in London in the late 70s/early 80s and at the end of a long hot summer Friday our controller got 3 or 4 of us picking up lots of deliveries and then arranged us to meet at Marble Arch to swap packages so we could head off for home each with 4 or 5 parcels going in the right direction, in my case down the M4. I got to MA first, and in those days if you had a motorbike, you could turn off into the roundabout and park your bike in the middle under the arch, I think it's roped off now. I stopped, and just sat on my bike drinking my can of coke (I could wedge an open one between the seat and the top box and it'd stay all day and not spill a drop), while I waited for the others. Soon 2 others turned up so I swung my leg off my bike completely forgetting I'd not put the side stand down. Consequently the bike collapsed off its wheels towards me and I ended up almost grovelling on the ground trying not to drop my bike or stick my bum into the bike next to me in case I knocked it over too. Al rushed to my aid but was laughing so much he couldn't help me (I was also giggling) and we were in a heap with the bike on top. Never laughed so much, and it took 3 of us to right the bike (can normally do it on my own is only a 500cc).
 
I have fallen off to many times but ones that always make me giggle:
riding my polo pony and she decided she would start bucking like mad, tanked off with me... with one hand holding a polo stick i got bumped over the pommel- bearing in mind i had no knee rolls, so lying on her neck, her head goes down and she just goes. i was hanging on for ages until she stopped and i just flew straight forwards and my legs came over my head. painful, but hysterical.
reguarly fell off my old pony in spectacular style, often bareback... :D
 
Mine was at a hunter trial. We'd been round the course lots of time so I was fairly confident about most of the course but as it was an RA organised event the last line of fences had been dressed with a large gun (think small tank!) on either side.
As predicted my horse approached it with his eyes out on stalks and tried to duck away from it almost taking a few spectators out in the process. In a very rare feat of class riding I stopped him running out, pointed him at the fence, whacked him and he flew it.
I was feeling very pleased with myself and thinking how impressed my instructor wouldn've been if she'd seen it when he spooked at a gorse bush and I shot out the side door. Ended up sat on my bum 10 yards before the finish line.
 
I recently fell off my youngster. I think I left my braincell in bed that day.

I had turned him out in the school fo a leg stretch as he had a bit of mud fever. When I went to get him in I decided in my wisdom to hop on his back to ride him back to the stables. I have only just started with him again after backing him last year. He only had a rug on and headcollar...

So I hopped on. He stood nicely. I asked him to move off... He dropped his head to rifle through the leaves. I didn't let go of the rope quick enough which pulled me over the front. I started to slip down his neck (kiddie slide fashion!). I suddenly had a flashback to doing the same thing off a shetland when I was about 7yrs old!) He suddenly realised what was happening, threw his head up which threw me back onto his back. Except I carried on, slapped him on the bum, he shot forward and I went out the side door.

When I looked up the poor lad is looking down at me with a totally confused expression! I think I was giggling for hours after! I absolutely had to tell my OH but I knew he was going to be furious - no hat, no one around etc etc!) He did see the funny side eventually...
 
Mine was going back a few years ago.

It was a very warm day. The yard also had a resturant, a golf driving range and a petting zoo.There was a seated area outside the arena for people to sit and watch you ride. That day i had not planned on riding and had gone to the yard in shorts and trainers. However as it cooled down a bit i decided to have a walk on my gelding round the school. I was aware of a group of peopel stodd bu the arena fence watching, they had just come from the resterante and where eating sandwiches and pasties. I was just casualy walking roudn the school, when my gelding spooked and set off doing the wall of death round the school. As i approached the side where the people where stood, he spooked again and i went out the side door. In doing so my trainer flew off and knocked the pastie clean out of this womans hand! She stood there tottaly shocked! The trainer then proceeded to land in the lap of an elderly woman sat ina wheel chair.

Trying not to laugth i walked over to her and asked for my trainer back. At that point i just wanted to die!!
 
Ahh :) few days after i got Lady, my brother sat on her....she had some weird hatred for guys and did a bucking bronco :p he flew over her shoulders, rolly pollied and landed on his feet....he was absolutely fine but my mum on the other hand was screaming and managed to push me over a barbed wire fence :D
 
hmmm when I was a teenager I used to help out at the riding school where I had lessons and our "reward" for doing that was to ride the horses bareback to the fields at the end of the day. The summer fields were about half an hour's ride away and I had two funny falls on the way there.

The first one was from the little coloured mare I used to ride a lot, she was perhaps 13.2 maybe 14hh and had the biggest buck ever - like something from a rodeo. But she was otherwise bombproof and was always used for leading horses past spooky things. She also had a talent for undoing gates and stable doors but that's another story...... Anyway for some reason this particular day I had to get off part way, I think because one of the younger children had fallen off, now the mare was a nightmare to mount at the best of times, she would often buck so we normally got on her from a mounting block very gently, but we were out hacking with nothing much to stand on and no saddle. So I had to vault. I'm awful at vaulting - I have no spring. But I knew that if I fluffed it it would start her bucking, so with great determination I ran hard towards her, stretched my hands up and jumped with all my might.............then I was flat on my back on the opposite side of the pony with her looking down at me with a confused expression.................. I'd managed to go right over the top! :eek:

The other time was on the same route, this time on a little section A mare, I was bringing up the rear and we decided to have a canter, everyone went off and the little mare was struggling to keep up so I was quite a way back. Then someone fell off, the people at the front hadn't seen to I stopped to get off and help, expect that I forgot I was riding a little fairly responsive pony and applied the aids for hal a little enthusiasticly. Little mare screeched to a stop kicking up dust like something out of a western and I ended up on her neck. I clung on for a seconnd trying to work out what to do when she made the decision for me and put her head down allowing me to do a very neat forward roll down her neck and onto the grass and go and help the person who had fallen off! I like to class that one as an unconventional dismount rather than a fall though!

My husband fell of the mounting block recently - now that was funny!!!! :D
 
I was riding my 4yo at his first ever party. I was doing the 60cm clear round. My horse was somewhat excited and had been bucking all the way round, but I had managed to stay on. I came to the last fence, which was a double. Jumped in ok, then my horse tried to put in an extra stride but didn't have the room so stopped. I stayed on until my horse decided the grass on the other side of the jump looked rather tasty, suddenly pulling the reins out of my hands he put his head down to graze. I went rolling straight down his neck, landing sat on my ar$e just in front of my somewhat surprised horse. Everybody was laughing hysterically at me. Still cant quite believe I managed to fall of from a stand still :eek:!!!!!!!!!!
 
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