own up,whose done it!

Ottinmeg

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hardly ridden my horse in the last 3 weeks (daughter keeps stealing her ) and had a lesson this morning which went very well but boy did my legs kill afterwards. got back into the yard and everyone of the other liveries was there.jumped off the horse ,feet hit the ground,legs didnt hold me up and i ended up on my arse in the middle of the yard who were by then in hysterics. my girl just looked at me as if to say ,what are you doing down there
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so who else has done something just as, or more embarrassing ?
 
My mum did it bless her but everyone was more concerned about her (she was fine!)

I'm sure I have, I'll have a think...
 
last summer after a 3 1/2 hour hack I couldn't get off! Seriously I had real probs getting my leg over the saddle, had to use the mounting block to help me get off, I had real problems walking for the first few steps as well
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Had a go at side saddle and obviously you cant dismount in the usual way.

Swung my leg over the front and sort of slid down (off of 17hh horse).... misjudged the distance to the ground and ended up staggering a few feet and falling forwards straight into the arms/lap of the owners husband!!!!!!!

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I was sooo embarrassed!!!
 
A few years ago at a livery yard I was at, a woman tried to get off her horse by doing that thing where you swing your right leg over the horse's neck and sort of hop off.

Unfortunately while she was in the middle of doing it, her horse moved. She still had her left foot in the stirrup. She slipped backwards over her horse's offside, her left foot was caught in the stirrup, and she was left dangling upside down on her horse's offside with her head almost touching the ground.

All credit to the horse, he stood absolutely stock still while we rescued her (probably in shock), and evil witches that we were, we were all crying with laughter. but it could have been a very nasty accident and she never attempted it again.
 
lol, glad its not just me then. i did contemplate swinging my leg over her neck and sliding off,just as well i didnt or probably would have been flat on my face! next time i will remember to bend my knees on landing.failing that ill get off in the school where the landing is a bit softer.
 
my fat lazy old mare spooked at a crow flapping out of a tree (quite out of character) in the woods as I was walking home, with no stirrups and on the buckle.
I flew straight off the back almost in the same seated position and landed on my bottom in a huge wet muddy puddle.
I was so ashamed of my stupidity!

Remember the only bombproof horse is a dead one.
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I slid down the side of rather than jumped off the back of the 17 hand horse i sometimes ride ,I am 4ft 11 , and ripped a bit of a hole in my tummy and a bigger hole in my jods, must of been from a buckle, I managed to pull my top over the damage and make a sharp exit but I knew what I'd done and that is embarassing enough though I don't think anyon else saw
 
I've done the loose girth thing and hoiked myself into the saddle only to have the whole thing slide round and under the horse's belly. Next thing, I'm lying on the floor looking stupid. At least you tend to only do it once. Friend of mine hopped off her horse to open a gate, landed awkwardly on a wobbly stone and tore all the tendons in her ankle. Ouch!
 
funny you should say that.......came back from hack last week on my 15.2 and due to achey bones etc i grab the next strap and slid off but misjudged and fell last bit banged my head and funny bone on the concrete
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staggered with horse into the stable he was looking at me as if i was mad couldnt manage to untack him as felt dizzy so had to sit on hay bales outside stable with head between knees nice freinds on the yard untacked him and brought me a hot drink as i apparently went an attractive shade of white
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lesson learnt there i think
 
oh god, I really wanted to forget my experience but here goes.

I went for a polo lesson with a friend (first time) and it was very very posh.

when the guy bought the horse out i was going to ride, it was about 17hh. ok i thought, wheres the mounting block - nope no mounting block, so the posh guy had to give me a leg up. but being the idiot i am i had my jeans on with little give in them and he gave me a leg up, i missed, kicked the guy in the chest, he went flying backwards whilst i was left to
scramble onto the horse looking like a complete amateur.

I didn't go back.... well wasn't really invited back
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Thankfully no-one was around, but the look the pony gave me was mortifying enough, but I once led Henry to the car before setting off, with the car being parked outside the nearby pub. Because he had his slippy Hi-Viz sheet on, I led him up the hill to a bench for mounting. The little bugger moved just as I was cocking a leg over, I over-compensated and launched myself straight over the other side, landing SPLAT on the floor. Good thing it was dark and all the walkers had gone home!
 
One of the funniest falls I've done was when I was acctually only about 10 and it was the first time i fell off, I was in a lesson stood in a line in the middle doing exersizes, all was going great (alot more flexible back then!) untill I did half sisors (both legs on one side, cross arms over so the "wrong" arms are on pommel and cantle, twist and swing back into the seat) when my pony did a full body shake at the critical swing point.... needless to say i went straight over her and landed on the floor flat on my back with my pony and the pony next to me looking at me as if to say "what the f***" luckilly i just burst out laughing which was great for my first fall so i was never too scared. Ironically tho the pony was called lucky!

Another good one goes in with the falling off in walk. Me and a friend were out on a hack in the brecon beacons on a narrow track. I was on a lovly big grey welsh D mare and my friend (who's really short) was on a shetland. Anyway we were nattering away and a gorse bush brushed past my leg and i didnt really think anything off it untill i heard "ow, oo, argh!" as the pony went straight under the bush knocking my firend off! Looked back and there she was on her ass on the floor and the pony with a butter wouldnt melt expression on his face!
 
Both of mine relate to 'specialist' saddles if that is an excuse!

Was trying a side saddle on a very round show cob I was riding for someone and it slid off to the left and rolled round right under her tummy, depositing me on the ground. I jumped to my feet quickly as a side saddle under the tummy usually gets kicked to smithereens, but the mare was just standing grazing with the saddle dangling underneath her, bless her!

The other one was getting off a western saddle - you are supposed to keep your left foot in the stirrup and step down. I forgot, leapt off and got my coat well and truly hooked up on the saddle horn. Luckily the horse concerned was Bob Mayhew's bombproof schoolmistress Tewy who just stood there with me suspended six inches off the ground while I worked out how to release my coat! I have never done it again!!!
 
similar incident when in my teens, riding a 4 year and was a bit pooped when finished so when I swung my leg over the back of saddle to get off I didn't lift it high enough, it got caught on the back and I slithered off in a heap
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I was out riding YO's pony a couple of years ago and she was fairly green and I hadn't ridden her before! We were escorting a hack out with 2 begginers so were only walking when all of a sudden the pony I was riding put in a reasonably huge rear (I was walking at the back) and I just screamed and slid off the back, to said pony just turning round to look at me like an idiot!!

It was quite funny, but I'd never had a horse rear with me on before, and we were with 2 beginners, I was supposed to be setting an example!!!

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I usually end up swinging my leg over just as Athean puts her head down to sniff something on the floor. The last time we did it was in a pub car park (we'd called in for a coffee. Honest!!!) and they had CCTV cameras there!!!!! Needless to say I haven't been in the pub since!!!
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