HELP!!!!!!!!

MissChaos said:
Mnuuuuurgh, I just can't help myself...

Look. Advice is precisely what you are getting - what it ISN'T is just what you wanted to hear. People are giving you advice based on what you yourself have said and I'm sorry, I do feel a need to point out that there is a heck of a difference between 'falling off loads of times' and 'spraining your arm' and the potential for what can happen when someone who is - and there is no other way of putting it, it's fact - so inexperienced is let loose on an XC course, *and* in comp conditions, *and* on something they themselves do not feel in control of. Get lessons and take your time! You're 13, you've had the thing two months - go and get to know each other and build your own knowledge and experience.

ETA is there a facepalm smiley for the above post?!
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I agree, you don;t need to rush, the last thing you want is a bad experience and spoiling your fun.
 
Hey ho.......
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I'm sure you'll have a lovely time OP, conquer all the opposition and that all the problems you are having will magically melt away as soon as you get to the course...:rolleyes:
 
Would you really like to hear what can happen when you don't take cross country seriously? 'Cause I'm very happy to describe my accident in great detail if it will make someone think twice about doing something so bloody stupid.

As someone has just said, you ARE getting advice, but what you really should have written in your post was "please tell me I'm fab and give me a super duper magic thing that will cure inexperience and lack of control"

They don't exist.
 
everyone falls off i fell off when i started riding and jumping until i sorted my position but i havent fallenoff this pony EVER and if i loose my balance he stops although i dont loose my balance often he looks after me and i look after him both on ground and when i ride i may be a begginner but im not a bad rider.my mums friend on the yard has a big horse who rears sometimes i control her and shes huge and sometimes a little scary but shes lovely i rode her once plus ive backed three horses
 
So the subject of this post is a 13 year old riding a 12hh pony, that she cannot control, who will be moving onto a young tb. Echoing the post about moving children onto horses too quickly? Far too quickly for my liking!

To the OP, think about it, if you can't control the pony at home, how will you do it at a comp, when you are nervous and he is excited. If you've ever watched xc before you know even the pro's have bad falls and accidents, you don't want to risk yourself or the pony.
 
Chailin said:
everyone falls off i fell off when i started riding and jumping until i sorted my position but i havent fallenoff this pony EVER and if i loose my balance he stops although i dont loose my balance often he looks after me and i look after him both on ground and when i ride i may be a begginner but im not a bad rider.my mums friend on the yard has a big horse who rears sometimes i control her and shes huge and sometimes a little scary but shes lovely i rode her once plus ive backed three horses
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All this after riding 4 months. I know you're a child, but I cry bulls***!
 
Chailin said:
everyone falls off i fell off when i started riding and jumping until i sorted my position but i havent fallenoff this pony EVER and if i loose my balance he stops although i dont loose my balance often he looks after me and i look after him both on ground and when i ride i may be a begginner but im not a bad rider.my mums friend on the yard has a big horse who rears sometimes i control her and shes huge and sometimes a little scary but shes lovely i rode her once plus ive backed three horses
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Considering your age, and how long you've been riding i find this a little hard to belive. What kind of adult will let an inexpericened child on an unbacked or rearing horse:eek: You need to except the fact your not ready for cross country, even if you think you are don't risk hurting the pony, because you don't know what your doing, have you been cross country before?
 
Chailin said:
everyone falls off i fell off when i started riding and jumping until i sorted my position but i havent fallenoff this pony EVER and if i loose my balance he stops although i dont loose my balance often he looks after me and i look after him both on ground and when i ride i may be a begginner but im not a bad rider.my mums friend on the yard has a big horse who rears sometimes i control her and shes huge and sometimes a little scary but shes lovely i rode her once plus ive backed three horses
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Ok. Spudlet, heart the smiley.

Everyone else - have some popcorn and pick me up off the floor from laughing at the last sentence when you're done...

And Starzaan? I wouldn't blame you for starting talking right about now. <hug>
 
I think you are all being harsh. I myself rode a flying horse at the age of 2 days old. The only trouble I had was its wings hitting me in the face because I was too short...:p:D
 
OP - Is your mum also reading these posts? I am very surprised that she wants you to go round a xc course when you clearly could do with some lessons. I wouldn't want a daughter of mine risking her neck (and the pony's) unnecessarily.
You need to listen to the advice of experienced people on this forum (seeing as you asked for their advice) and heed it.

If you are serious however - then all I can say is the advice my instructor gave me on my first trip round xc (about 30 years ago) "if in doubt - KICK ON!"

*passes the popcorn and sits back!*
 
I've just entered my 2 year old for the Gold Cup and Grand National next year...I'm looking for a new jockey. Does the OP fancy it? Don't worry about riding him beforehand. He has run over 6f so far...I'm sure he will love the 3miles plus and all those big fences ;)
 
MissChaos said:
And Starzaan? I wouldn't blame you for starting talking right about now. <hug>
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Thank you possum! I think I might just have to... always a pleasure to scare the living daylights out of troll type people/people who would like to talk the talk and are in danger of hurting themselves as badly as I did!

HERE GOES... Trollface, listen well...

I was lucky enough to find my dream horse - 18.2hh, black with four white socks and a blaze Hanoverian X Belgian Warmblood, and I killed him and nearly killed myself because I was stupid enough to ask him to do something he couldn't.

We were eventing, and he backed off a log drop into water - I kicked him on because we were in with a chance of getting placed if we went clear xc, and he couldn't do it. He tried his heart out for me, and hit the fence.

We had a rotational fall. He landed on his face, broke his neck, and flipped over to land on top of me in the water. I was trapped under the water, under a very large horse for almost 5 minutes while the fence stewards called for help to get him off me. I woke up two days later in hospital and was told that my beautiful boy had been put down at the scene. I was hooked up to oxygen machines because my lungs had been so damaged by inhaling so much water, and they needed to be drained once a day for a week so that I could breathe. I broke -

5 ribs
right cheekbone
right and left clavicle
jaw
left shoulder
left wrist and four fingers on left hand
pelvis
right elbow
left hip was dislocated
left leg was essentially shattered, and is now mostly made of metal and fibreglass - my thigh bone was poking out the back of my leg
right ankle
both my eardrums were perforated and I have trouble hearing even now
and the ligaments in my legs were ripped off the bones.

I am always in some sort of pain now, and always will be. I will never be able to ride with my feet in stirrups without being in agony after an hour or so, which I have to ignore, grit my teeth and get on with, and I will never see my beautiful Cadbury's flopsy ears and big gentle eyes ever again.

Troll or not, shut up if you're just trying to wind people up. This sort of thing MATTERS to some of us.
 
Starzaan said:
Thank you possum! I think I might just have to... always a pleasure to scare the living daylights out of troll type people/people who would like to talk the talk and are in danger of hurting themselves as badly as I did!

HERE GOES... Trollface, listen well...

I was lucky enough to find my dream horse - 18.2hh, black with four white socks and a blaze Hanoverian X Belgian Warmblood, and I killed him and nearly killed myself because I was stupid enough to ask him to do something he couldn't.

We were eventing, and he backed off a log drop into water - I kicked him on because we were in with a chance of getting placed if we went clear xc, and he couldn't do it. He tried his heart out for me, and hit the fence.

We had a rotational fall. He landed on his face, broke his neck, and flipped over to land on top of me in the water. I was trapped under the water, under a very large horse for almost 5 minutes while the fence stewards called for help to get him off me. I woke up two days later in hospital and was told that my beautiful boy had been put down at the scene. I was hooked up to oxygen machines because my lungs had been so damaged by inhaling so much water, and they needed to be drained once a day for a week so that I could breathe. I broke -

5 ribs
right cheekbone
right and left clavicle
jaw
left shoulder
left wrist and four fingers on left hand
pelvis
right elbow
left hip was dislocated
left leg was essentially shattered, and is now mostly made of metal and fibreglass - my thigh bone was poking out the back of my leg
right ankle
both my eardrums were perforated and I have trouble hearing even now
and the ligaments in my legs were ripped off the bones.

I am always in some sort of pain now, and always will be. I will never be able to ride with my feet in stirrups without being in agony after an hour or so, which I have to ignore, grit my teeth and get on with, and I will never see my beautiful Cadbury's flopsy ears and big gentle eyes ever again.

Troll or not, shut up if you're just trying to wind people up. This sort of thing MATTERS to some of us.
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I am sorry for you loss, it must have been terrible to lose a horse like that, lets hope to op listens.
 
As much as I was (really) giggling at Spudlet and Lord's posts, have gone very quiet.

As well the OP - Troll or otherwise, both equally applicable scenarios now - and parent damn well should. I hope for this silly girl's sake that she is all talk and the parent turns out to have at least a scrap of common sense / one working brain cell.
 
MissChaos said:
As much as I was (really) giggling at Spudlet and Lord's posts, have gone very quiet.

As well the OP - Troll or otherwise, both equally applicable scenarios now - and parent damn well should. I hope for this silly girl's sake that she is all talk and the parent turns out to have at least a scrap of common sense / one working brain cell.
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Me too (well, I wasn't giggling at my own posts as that would be a bit creepylike, but you see what I mean).

However, that post sums up why x-country is not to be taken lightly, and incidentally why I have never done it even after riding for the best part of 12-ish years - because I still don't feel ready and experienced enough.
 
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