not as bouncy as used to be!

[LessThanPerfect]

Okay, I fell off ! Was at the end of an otherwise successful lesson, going through a dressage test in last 10 mins of lesson, doing 20m circle in canter on right rein, just approaching the track by the wall and completely without warning madam decided to veer of at top speed to the LEFT

One VERY sore behind (mine, not hers--though I felt like returning the favour!) and sore jaw where I hit the wall.

So much for so called quiet RDA ponies! Although I am not the first rider she had unseated recently, able-bodied included.

 

[Nutsaboutnags]

Hiya,
I feel your pain.... Literally! I also met the ground today, at speed! Sore bum? Check. Sore neck? double check. Sore pride? Triple check Nxx

 

[LessThanPerfect]

Hot baths and consolatory chocolate all round then I think!

 

[Summer pudding]

Happened to me..about the same place in the lesson, and time..the spook from nowhere and me on the ground from perfect pony! Painful and knocked my confidence as I couldn't anticipate or avoid it, or am I an insecure rubbish rider. Your sore jaw sounds horrible..yikes hitting the wall. Has anyone checked for pain related behaviour?

 

[TrasaM]

Ohhhh.. dented pride hurts the other bruised bits should be iced ..

 

[Hippona]

Yeah....mine spooked at a patch of grass few months ago..'.we parted company at top speed then he bogged off heading for home and I had to chase after the git...

I realised that at 44 I am

a) very unfit
b) not very bouncy.

 

[LessThanPerfect]

Happened to me..about the same place in the lesson, and time..the spook from nowhere and me on the ground from perfect pony! Painful and knocked my confidence as I couldn't anticipate or avoid it, or am I an insecure rubbish rider. Your sore jaw sounds horrible..yikes hitting the wall. Has anyone checked for pain related behaviour?

Mine or hers?

It is only recently she has been getting like this and wondered if it was spring grass syndrome. She is used quite a lot in the riding school and maybe she is getting bored of it all. My instructor told me at the beginning of the lesson to put her reins on the bottom ring of her bit (2 ring gag snaffle) as she had been very fresh earlier in the day.

As an RDA rider I don't it really feel it is my place to suggest investigations as the owners and instructors are far more experienced than me, although if it starts to be a habit with this particular pony I may politely request a different mount!

They are aware of what is happening as they are very careful to put everything in the accident book.

 

[popeyesno1fan]

Ouch, I feel your pain. I haven't hit the ground in a very long time (touching wood), I think I might have cried. Falling off is just not nice, and I don't bounce to well anymore either. I ride a 6 yr old cob that really has very little milage, but he's quiet, thank god. Hope you feel better soon, and that she doesn't do that again any time soon. I was teaching at the weekend, and literally at the last 30 seconds of the lesson, a tiny little pony, called tiny spooked from some birds and the little girl fell off, took a big fall, but jumped up and back on.. the joys of being young. (This little kid is 5, and can canter and jump, tough as nails). x

 

[watchmaker]

Ah - my darling wife bust her pelvis whilst out horse shopping a few years ago. It made a big difference to what she bought! She ended up with the safest horse I have ever ridden. Big black cob, 22yrs now. Unfalloffable but a fit and enthusiastic boy who has collected a couple of red ribbons at yokel shows and still jumps from paddock to paddock when my back is turned.

Bombproof. He can do dual carriageways, roundabouts, town centres, all on his own if need be. I even took him solo over the East Coast mainline at a busy level crossing one day (I got hideously lost, so I followed the main A-roads home!). Lights flashing, bells ringing, heavy traffic. No problem.

Nevertheless he has had us both off. Always in the springtime. With him I think might be gelding randyness rather than grass. But in spring he can get silly, usually for a few weeks or so.

Spanish walk. Cantering on the spot. Running backwards (terrifying in heavy traffic backpedalling towards oncoming cars). Rear on one hoof and spin leaving me standing on the ground. On one dread occasion bolting back to the yard, proper gallop down the tarmac for a mile before he ran out of steam.

By chance 18 months ago we moved him to a farm setting. Miles of hacking without going near a road if we don't want and a nice 30 by 50 rubber school to play in. Soft landings everywhere (we're both long past forty - the age at which my local GP believes you should stop riding). Where did I come off? On the concrete. Ouch.

 

[LessThanPerfect]

Ah - my darling wife bust her pelvis whilst out horse shopping a few years ago. It made a big difference to what she bought! She ended up with the safest horse I have ever ridden. Big black cob, 22yrs now. Unfalloffable but a fit and enthusiastic boy who has collected a couple of red ribbons at yokel shows and still jumps from paddock to paddock when my back is turned.

Bombproof. He can do dual carriageways, roundabouts, town centres, all on his own if need be. I even took him solo over the East Coast mainline at a busy level crossing one day (I got hideously lost, so I followed the main A-roads home!). Lights flashing, bells ringing, heavy traffic. No problem.

Nevertheless he has had us both off. Always in the springtime. With him I think might be gelding randyness rather than grass. But in spring he can get silly, usually for a few weeks or so.

Spanish walk. Cantering on the spot. Running backwards (terrifying in heavy traffic backpedalling towards oncoming cars). Rear on one hoof and spin leaving me standing on the ground. On one dread occasion bolting back to the yard, proper gallop down the tarmac for a mile before he ran out of steam.

By chance 18 months ago we moved him to a farm setting. Miles of hacking without going near a road if we don't want and a nice 30 by 50 rubber school to play in. Soft landings everywhere (we're both long past forty - the age at which my local GP believes you should stop riding). Where did I come off? On the concrete. Ouch.

Oh gosh, concrete doesn't half hurt. Several years ago I was riding a Russian horse called Boris in canter when my instructor advised me to "tickle him with your whip", 4 bucks in succession followed and I was deposited over the fence of the outdoor school onto the concrete.
Left more skin on the concrete than on my body

I always hope one day I'll have a pony like my childhood pony, the sort you can pony race on the motorcycle racetrack one minute and put a toddler on the next, who will happily go along buckle end on my worst days but go up the gears if I have the energy.

Don't know if I'll ever be in a position to look after one though, don't have any family to help.

 

[happyclappy]

been there, done that, still recovering. i had been on a great ride with hubby and his cob and me on my newly trained filly. long story short, nearly home, off on tarmac. fractured pelvis. pleased you are just a little sore rather than broken. hope you feel better soon. just dont bounce so well as we get more mature

 

[Bernster]

Hmm, sadly I fear I am just as bouncy as I used to be, just not in the same way hehe ;-)