Got bucked off yesterday

[ROMANY 1959]

When I was 15. Many moons ago, I had my first horse at a riding school. Free livery in exchange for helping out sat and Sundays. In them days in the seventies, livery cost few £ a week.. well I had been told to walk the ponies down to the far field. About 15 min walk. Instructions was WALK. Don’t ride ok. No. I got on mine in the middle bare back, in a head collar with rope tied to other side, leading a pony on each side.. all went well through first field, then my new horse got a bit frisky, and the two ponies pulled back and I bounced off the back of mine over the bum and landed on my bum. I broke my coccyx, I got up, waddled to the turnout field, crying in pain.. turned them out and walked back to yard. Never told a soul, I had been warned not to do what I did.
I was in pain for weeks, lesson learned, do what the pro says

 

[Cloball]

I fell off yesterday first time falling off pony and first time since pre covid. Soft landing on my bum and not far to go pony is 13.2. Took everyone by surprise as pony rarely spooks and certainly not this dramatically, instructor turned round and missed the whole thing and pony was so shocked I wasn't still in board she came trotting back over (very cute) to tell me how terrifying it was.

The culprit... The letter h flapped at her. A pigeon fly into her face and she flinched, a Chinook nearly landed in her field and she barely blink.... I'm blaming the grass .

 

[Boughtabay]

I used to fall off my first pony regularly - section A with a spectacular bronc. I was once deposited into the middle of a very large cowpat which covered 50% of me head to toe & made to get back on for all the falls there are an equal number of times I stuck on when I shouldn’t have and have been informed by more than one person (some recently, which is a bit embarrassing) that they have a photo of me on my warmblood about 3 feet in the air above the saddle and slightly to one side as we go over an xc fence… it baffles them to this day that I made it back to the saddle, apparently probably fell off somewhere later on though!

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Why do us horsey people put up with these dangerous animals

I am amazed you are still riding given all your injuries.

 

[Abacus]

Last Friday, finished schooling, walking on a long rein out of the arena while replying to a text message and pony fell over. Stumbled over the scaffold plank that holds the rubber in, and went down - I think on her belly - I came off backwards somehow. No harm done except to my dignity (and note to self: keep paying attention).