how can you fall off a horse?!

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After my fall off Ned yesterday, i awoke to a badly pulled muscle in my arm. I didn't want to, but i forced myself to go to work.
While fishing for sympathy, to get out of lifting heavy boxes, a collegue over heard and said 'how on earth do you fall off a horse!?'
clearly doesn't know much about riding, haha!
 
My uncle once said to me (after me falling off) perhaps I should give up riding as its clearly not for me.

You know what they say, your not a real rider til you've fallen off atleast 7 times! (well thats what my first ever RI told me :p)

Hope your arm gets better soon! Have a nice hot Radox bath to soothe your muscles!
 
LaurenBay said:
My uncle once said to me (after me falling off) perhaps I should give up riding as its clearly not for me.

You know what they say, your not a real rider til you've fallen off atleast 7 times! (well thats what my first ever RI told me :p)

Hope your arm gets better soon! Have a nice hot Radox bath to soothe your muscles!
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7 times!....my first instructor told me it took 100 falls to make a rider :eek:
 
My RI said it was falling off 100 times to make a good rider!

Mind you I probably have done that, I used to fall off my Sec A almost daily, but when you're a kid you hardly notice!
 
:eek: Falling off a horse? Nope that never happens to me.

........being ejected by horse, tree (and after a very bad hangover... sea sickness)? That might be more commonplace ;)

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Remember saying in work a few years ago something about daughter falling off & it being very funny ( the fall we've all done, shetland canters across field, head goes down for grass mid stride, rider out the front door). My boss & work colleagues were horrified I was laughing & asked why I hadn't rang in so I could stay at the hospital with her! Turned out as none of them were horsey they assumed all falls were of the Christopher reeves variety cos that's the only type they'd seen in the news!
 
I'm not scared of falling off at all - it's the hitting ground part that scares the bejeezus out of me!

Touch wood I haven't come off for 50 weeks to the day! Ah I remember it well! Riding out a fresh racehorse on it's 2nd day back in work after 3 weeks of box rest. Hacking out down the road when he decided it would be good fun to bronc. Now to be fair he was only broncing, not bucking, but he was also plunging as well. I managed to stay on for a good 30-40 seconds before I hit the deck. The horse ran home (all 50m till home!) Where he promptly got caught by none other than Clare Balding who was in the yard doing a bit for the BBC on our Grand National horse. Oh the walk of shame! :( Only I could have the audacity to take the spotlight off of SBN for 5 mins! Hehehe!
 
Well we all know the saying ''Riding is the art of keeping the horse between you and the ground'' I've failed many a time.

The last time was out hunting my youngster, he follwed a loose horse jumping off a tall bank landing skew wiff, the age old ahh i've done well to stay on there! *plop* :o Jump up, dust off and catch the 'oss who'd only gone 50 yards before relising he had lost his sat nav so had no idea of the way home ;)
 
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I once fell off 8 times in 20 minutes - off a 2yr old TB colt who came to us for starting. He was a right little bugger, and I'd like to say he taught me to sit a buck, but as I never did manage to stay on him for an entire session, I guess I learned nothing!
I've been pretty sticky on everything that has bucked with me ever since though.

Jamestown Boy - I still remember the feeling of dread when I saw my name next to his on the worksheet!! Every flippin day for about 4 months as well!
 
I too remember my instructor telling me that you weren't a true rider till you'd fallen off 100 times.

Last time I came off was trying to open a gate, horse shot backwards as I was leaning forwards trying to grab the handle. Landed on the concrete. Think K thought opening the gate was best done from the ground. :D
 
My worst ever fall, considering what I do for a living, was off of a shetland pony that I was breaking. She was called Ira - well me being me called her Bomber (SORRY!!!) But it couldn't have actually been more apt! She was a tense wee thing but you could ride her anywhere side saddle, you could hop on the other way and ride her side saddle on the right hand side too and you could hang ropes and things down the otehr side of her not a bother. But you put a leg each side of her and she exploded! One day I got fed up of being bucked off before I had even got fully on so I got my mum to hold her with a scoop of nuts, I took the stirrups off so I could just wrap my legs right around her and rodeo her out. The idea being that when she realised that I wasn't coming off she would quit bucking.

So on I hopped. Sat quietly, gathered reins and mane, pony grinding down into the nuts, gently wrap my legs around and BOOM! Off we went! Go half way across the field still intact and she cantered 3 stride. In my head I said "YES! I've cracked the cow!" Oh how wrong I could be! The 3 strides of canter was a build up to the most almighty buck a shetland has ever done! She nearly turned herself over in a somersault! Needless to say I came off. I flew 10ft up into the air, landed 15m away on my head, crashed onto my back then skii'd a further 10m along the ground and into a fence post - bloody good job too as with the speed I was still going I would have gone into the fast flowing burn and I can't swim! I was also unconcious for 5mins. By god but I have never been so sore in all my life! And that was from a Shetland Pony! So Bomber - well she could certainly torpedo you anywho!
 
EKW said:
The 3 strides of canter was a build up to the most almighty buck a shetland has ever done! She nearly turned herself over in a somersault! Needless to say I came off. I flew 10ft up into the air, landed 15m away on my head, crashed onto my back then skii'd a further 10m along the ground and into a fence post -
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LOL the imagery from this.
 
There's always that horrible split second when you're in the air and you wonder how much it's going to hurt when you hit the ground! ;)

ETA ....and why is it that the reaction of any riders out with you is usually to laugh hysterically?
 
midi said:
LOL the imagery from this.
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I am also 5ft 4in so not exactly a total midget of a person being flung around like a rag doll! :D Lol!

Ollie's Mum said:
There's always that horrible split second when you're in the air and you wonder how much it's going to hurt when you hit the ground! ;)

ETA ....and why is it that the reaction of any riders out with you is usually to laugh hysterically?
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I think the laughing is more to do with the relief that it isn't you yourself that is currently sitting in the dank squishy muddy puddle but someone else which makes everything fine and dandy! Hehehe!
 
Haha! Some of these are so funny!

I suppose i didnt really fall off ned, he slipped and sat down. I slipped and sat down, but not on the horse!

ive also been told about the 100 falls thing...i mustnt be very good...8 falls in 17 years!

att my yard, we usually get 'OMG are you ok?' 'yes' 'get back on you silly girl, haha!'
 
Ollie's Mum said:
There's always that horrible split second when you're in the air and you wonder how much it's going to hurt when you hit the ground! ;)

ETA ....and why is it that the reaction of any riders out with you is usually to laugh hysterically?
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It's always the "Hahaa, are you ok!?" "Err, yeah I think so" "Haaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaa" but occasionally, it's the "Oh god, she's not getting up. Oh god, oh god..."

Or in the case of my parents, "Oh god, she's not getting up. Haaaahahahahaha" They weren't laughing after sitting in A&E for 4 hours. :rolleyes:
 
My funniest fall (which would have been a definite £250 on "You've Been Framed") was when Ollie catapaulted me right up into the air and I turned as I went ending up disappearing head first down a great rut (good shot on Ol's behalf) and was left wedged with my legs in the air in a giant V sign.

My dear friends were actually crying hysterically with laughter at that one :mad:
 
These are my famous last words, only fallen off Arab three times and never the other two.
Last time I fell off the Arab reared and I fell off her shoulder leaning forward haha. I was fine and the next time she reared with me on a XC course she got an almightily whack, never been up since :D.
 
I was riding a friend's horse bareback, waiting in a collecting ring for my turn in a bareback jumping class. She suddenly reared and I slid, in perfect balance, back along her body and ended up standing behind her. I didn't class that as a fall! (This was in my youth, many years ago.)
 
the last time i fel off i landed right on a bloomin great thistle, those spikes in my bum were far more painful than the hitting the ground part:o What i don't understand is this, my bum is now far bigger than when i was a teen, in fact most of me is better covered than when i was a teen so how come , even with all the extra padding, it hurts 10 times more falling off now than it did back then:rolleyes:;)
 
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