funniest fall :)

Not so much a falling out but pretty funny! I was going on a hack at a trekking centre and was wearing my new jods with suede seat. Hadn't broken them in so thought 'better swing my leg a bit more to make sure I get over'. As it was, I put too much omph behind it and ended up with my head pointing to the floor next to the horses on one side and my legs completely in the air on the other! I was perfectly balanced, but needed to be pushed back into the saddle as I couldn't move from where I was! My friend was in hysterics, and I felt like a right twit lol!
 
Mine has to be the first and only time I have fallen off Max. We were hacking through a boggy bit of wooded area, he decided he didn't want to go through the boggyness, wimp ;), so goes under some low hanging trees at the side. I think if he can get under so can I, so I lie flat on his neck as there was no turning back. I was mistaken, next thing I know I am on his bum because I had hit a tree, then on the floor still holding the reins directly behind him - on my feet may I add ;). Anddd then he takes one step forward and I land on my bum. It was like it was all in slow motion :p, at walking pace ;). I was giggling for about 5minutes. Well atleast I can say the first time I've fallen off him was humerous ;).
 
JoBo said:
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:
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I've done this before... soooo embarrassing!! :D
 
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Was going through a metal horse gate with very strong springs to make them close behind you, I was so busy making sure it didn't come back and hit my horse, my foot turned and got caught on the bracket where the gate closed, my horse walked through and I was left hanging upside down, I was more concerned about my new chaps if they'd been broken !

No 2

I'd tied a flashing light to the neck strap, it was clinking as we were going along and getting on my nerves, I was trying to untie it and concentrating so hard I forgot about the branch that had been getting lower and lower ! smacked me just above the peek on my hat, I did back summer salt over and off, my horse just looked at me as if to say, I didn't do anything, what you doing down there ! Boy that hurt, the back of the saddle dug into my back as I flipped over and I was on my own

No 3

Not funny but might have been if you seen it happen !

my horses knee boot slipped, he stood on it which stopped him dead, I wasn't expecting it to happen so went over his shoulder landed upside down in a ditch, STILL had hold of him ! I think he was a shocked as me ! I just layed there winded then ended up crying and moaning, it really hurt ! my hip is still giving me jip, it happend last July !
 
First time I ever went riding, got on pony, pony bucked, fell off other side, got up, walked round, got on again and stayed on, everyone thought it was hilarious.
 
Out hacking with a friend having a lovely slow canter down the river bank. A duck landed on the river and my horse decided this was hugely interested, and went from canter to stand still quicker than most quarter horses could managed at the same time as spinning though 90 degrees - not bad for 16.2hh of ID /TB.

Result - I somersaulted straight out the side door and landed on my backside in a ploughed field.

The worse part was that I left the imprint of my backside in the field and had to ride past it for weeks!!
 
Ha! Mine was on a v cold but v bright (recipe for disaster) February day, on a riding school horse (beautiful 16.2hh hunter type). as we started our first canter of the ride, she threw in the most enormous buck i've ever had the joy of experiencing and I went flying. Just as i saw my life flash in front of me and prepared to land on my head, she reared up, which somehow righted me so that i was flipped back round and landed on my feet. My friend, riding behind me, said it looked like we'd rehearsed it!
 
Mine wasn't very funny, more "odd" and very very out of the blue! It was with my last horse - I was just about to get on at a show beside the trailer, literally I'd put my foot in the stirrup and my butt was almost in the saddle when horse went nuts - he bronc'd BIG time pretty much from a stand still, I flew so high in the air and smacked into the side of the trailer sliding to the bottom. I was pretty shocked and ended up sitting there confused for a minute, was more peed off because my GPA Xtreme hat had scraped down the trailer meaning the rubber coating had come off it (ie. big scratches on hat!). Poor horse had clearly scared himself in a big way as he wouldnt let me even get my foot in the stirrup after that so I gave up and took him home. Later that afternoon I got on him no problem. I think something must have stung him - very weird.
 
aw, these are sooo funny!!

I've had a fair few falls in my time - so glad someone else said it makes you a good rider lol!! ;-)

My funniest was my best friend and I both trying to climb onto my mare to have a wee bareback wander round the field. We were v young and slim then so dotting around the field on the same horse seemed very simple he he!!
So perching ourselves on the very edge of an old tin bath (our mounting block at the time!) one of us managed to haul themselves up there first but whoever (can't remember, was so long ago!) drew the short straw and was trying to clamber up second tried to use the first person as a handle and eh, did not succeed.

Cue both of us lying in a crumpled heap on the ground - me smack on top of my mate (she broke my fall nicely, tres kind!) having bashed ourselves off the old tin bath on the way down. She was totally winded, we were bruised to bits but honestly nearly peed our pants laughing. Still gets us giggling all these years later!!!

Maybe it's one of those 'you had to be there' moments hee hee!!!
 
I was opening a gate on my (then) young horse who spooked whilst I was leaning right over. He went down the slope and stood in the river, I was totally out of the saddle over to one side and had no choice but to lower myself into the river!! My daughter thought this was a scream!! I did'nt - it was a frosty February morning and we were three miles from home!!
 
dianeholmes said:
I was opening a gate on my (then) young horse who spooked whilst I was leaning right over. He went down the slope and stood in the river, I was totally out of the saddle over to one side and had no choice but to lower myself into the river!! My daughter thought this was a scream!! I did'nt - it was a frosty February morning and we were three miles from home!!
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ohh myy!!! nice bath though :')
 
Me doing a running jump to vault on loan pony's back while doing bare back riding.. He'd been bathed the day before so I skidded off the other side, landing around 3 ft away from him because I did it so fast. The funniest thing was the look on his face when he saw me, not quite realising what happened. The person holding him was rolling on the floor laughing though. Good times! :rolleyes: xx
 
Oh, another one from me. At my old stables jumping the infamous wall jump that everyone wanted to jump. Was on my favourite horse at the time, a young haflinger who was very fizzy and quite nervous at times. I couldn't get her to jump it on her own so had to follow on from another horse. We jumped it with about a foot and a half to spare, only to be fine for half a stride after, then fall off from shock! I wasn't even unseated.. I just slipped off from being so surprised! xx
 
A lot of years ago. I had my horse on a yard, with a garage at the top of the lane.

I came back from a hack, there were quite a few people at the garge. I lent over to open the gate to get back into the yard. Only to forget, I had lossened the girth when a was nearly home. Resulting in me and the saddle, sliding gracefully to the floor!! Much to the amusement of all the spectators!
 
Showjumping a while ago at Cranleigh show. Didn't put studs in (shows in August) and hadn't taken into account that the showground would have good grass cover. Horse accelerated around a corner, fell over and we slid - together under the rope around the ring. (BTW, Horse was a near TB 16.1!) - we were eliminated failing to leave the ring correctly!

Dont learn though - did the same thing several years later when jumping at Hickstead (RC I'm not that brave) - this time - studs but too short! horse slipped, sat on his backside and I came off backwards, still with the stirrups on. Unfortunately for me, this was being timed, I had to put the stirrups back on, get on my (16.3 this time) with an audience and...its all on video... never lived it down!
 
One of my best falls happened after This Picture.

The story goes... First jumping lesson since last summer, and I was absolutely terrified! Leant too far forward, over the jump we go, and out the side door I come. Except I end up sitting in my bum in the sand, jump up, stick my arms in the air and shout 'I'm OK!'. Bonnie of course is being a perfect ponio, and just stood there like she was saying, 'What on earth are you doing there?!'.

I have also fallen off when dismounting, actually got my legs over but slipped forwards and was clinging to pony's belly an plopped very un-ceremoniously to the floor! :p

Oh, and falling off doing round the world multiple times :D My funniest fall sans-pony was doing gymkhana games and as 'practice' for a game, we had to twirl around really quickly. Eventually the dizziness made us end up rolling/sitting in the sand on the floor of the arena!
 
When I was still at school, jumped on my horse in the field to take her in (they were right at the bottom of the field) had a wee canter up the hill to the gate (i did have a hat on) she decided she didn't want to stop there and with only a leadrope in hand i decided bailing out would be better than her emergency stopping at the rapidly approaching stone dyke. Landed on my feet but due to speed bounced up flipped upside down and slid along on my head street dance style!!! Then collapsed in a heap.

My hat silk was ruined!!

(great idea for a thread BTW)
 
Another From Me lol :p

last weekend, was riding a fatty 12.2hh pony, just having our usual run around,
he gets very excited when cantering and jumping, so off i cantered, everything fine...then....POW neck goes between his legs....my arms pulled forwards, saddles lifts up from the daisy rein, and i just roll over his shoulders and land on the floor on my bum :D he just trotted off past my friend who thought i was just sitting on the grass for the sake of it XD
 
Years ago I was in a group staff lesson at the riding school where I worked. The indoor school was very dry so they had used the sprinkler system overnight and one of the sprinklers hadn't shut off properly, so there was a huge wet patch.

My horse tripped in it and I was sent sprawling, landing chest down in the wet patch. Neither of us was injured, so I got back on and laughed it off.

Later at lunch time, the staff room was really warm so I was happily drying off when the unmistakable aroma of horse piss began to emanate from my body. I had landed not in the sprinkler wet patch but where a horse had copiously staled at the start of the lesson. I was none too popular that lunch time and had to sit outside to continue drying out until someone lent me a shirt.
 
Not me but other members of the family :) We have the most bombproof and usually co-operative coloured cob in the world, however she is the one that both sister and foster daughter have fallen off. This mare is ride and drive and a saint on the road, however she has never seen the point of school work, foster daughter, out on a hack found a lovely circle, which has obviously been used for schooling, we decide to canter round the circle, little cob mare says 'no I don't do that' FD insisted, cob put the most enormous buck in and FD sailed through the air, with cob lstanding looking smug. Same mare with sister on board decided that a discarded carpet at the side of the road was a horse eating monster, was paying so much attention to carpet that she fell over her own feet, sister slid off down the mares shoulder and ended up sitting on the road by the mares foot. I swear that the mare blushed :) She certainly pretended that she knew nothing of this odd woman sitting in the road by her :)
The rest of us laughed a lot.
 
Out on a hack and we'd just cantered up a hill. We stopped at the top to look at the view and the horse and I just kinda zoned out. He grazed, and I just took my feet out of the stirrups, let the reins loose and just sat there.
Needless to say, a rabbit jumped up suddenly - and the horse shot off, leaving me in mid air. It was just like a cartoon - me sitting in the air with no horse, and then coming down to earth with a bump!
 
mine has to be when i first hacked out on my first pony. she was quite spooky and we were having as canter uphilll. a dog jumped out of the bushes and she went one way and i kinda went the other. i'm sure if it was in slow motion, it wud be that she went off to the right and there was me in mid air sitting on an invisible horse!!! i landed on my feet and jumped back on within seconds!!!
 
I fell off when getting on...

Was riding a friends 14hh pony and I used a step to get on, forgetting the fact that I didnt have to go up as high (I normally ride a 16.2!!) so overshot the saddle a bit and tried to use the neck as a prop - nope, didnt help and I went out the side door! :o
 
Not really funny but the most frustrating fall for me was, I went to a pony club tet xc stage that was open to all. We travelled for about an hour on the saturday to do and walk the course, then on the sunday, it took us about an hour and a half to get there with my boy and a small girl and her pony. Imagine the scene. The biggest pony there was probably about 14.2 hh except for me, on a 16.2hh dutch warmblood. all these little kids wizzed round the course, with no problem at all. Then it was my turn. I was worried about some of the jumps, the ditch, the steps etc, and what happens. The 2nd jump, a small log, I jumped it, shame the horse didnt!!!! he just stopped dead in front of a 2ft log that everyone else had hardly looked at!!!!!!
 
This is an easy one. As a kid, I was on the Prince Phillip Cup (mounted games) team. However, I couldn't vault onto my 13.2hh pony. I have never been a graceful person and one day in training, I was so annoyed that I was the only one on the team not vaulting that I attacked it with so much determination I flew up and right over the horse, landing ( with a heavy thudd) in a crumpled pile the other side. My mother said it felt like an earthquake. So embarrassed, and everyone around me was laughing!
 
at a team championships watching as didnt have a horse at this point. one of are team approached the jump horse jumped massive and weirdly and got the rider unseated. she managed to do a flip, land on her feet and bow :)
 
I have a couple of good ones,

Arab mare hacking in the woods suddenly spun off the path, branch hit me in the chest, my arms flew up and round it and I ended up hanging off the branch about 5 feet in the air as the mare cantered away from me.

Demonstrating mounting to the entire little PC and their mothers my instructor was overenthusiastic with the leg up and sent me flying straight across the pony onto the ground on the other side.

Jumping recently (big deal small jumps) round a 2 foot course, the only person aver 16 to be doing so I got unbalanced over the final double, paniced and just tried to keep the pony straight, she turned because there was the arena wall and I dropped onto my butt. Of course there were spectators. Still got to the jump off though as it was after the finish line :).
 
This happened a few years ago, had a part bred arab mare who was a bit sticky at gates always wanted to get through quick, a friend and I were coming back from a good ride over Saddlescombe hill and you have come down a narrow track into the farmyard, as she always wanted to be in the lead we had to do the gate a hunting one not wonderfully hung either, leant over opened gate she shot through whilst I'm hanging over her neck reached a point of no return and fell off, this is the best bit, gateway used by a herd of cows always muddy and all the other things that go with and through cows landed b um down in said muck and then had to get back on and ride a couple of miles home, socalled friend on unflappable welsh cob nearly fell off laughing, refused to do any trotting on the way home.:p
 
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