YOUR WORST FALL?

My worst fall that I had, which wasn't that bad at all, was when my mare Stoeka was going towards a jump and the whole time I could feel she was attempting to refuse, but I got her straight. At the very last minute she turned out and I went flying into the wing of the jump. I hurt my knee quite badly, but it wasn't fractured luckily.

A few funny falls I have had was when the horse was galloping full speed towards a stable. I tried slowing but to no avail. Suddenly he did a sliding halt, and I did a graceful somersault over his head and onto my butt.

The other funny fall was off my other mare Night Heat. She kept refusing at this one combination. For the first jump she jumped abit awkwardly which unseated me, then for the second jump she jumped really big, which sent me to the one side abit. I held on for a few strides, but then I came off and did a slide on my knees as if I was praying. My instructer said I must have been praying not to fall off. It must have looked so funny...LOL

Sorry for the long post. = D

Well, maybe a week ago, I was riding Pinto Bean and my mom was riding Romeo. Romeo and mom went up the trail (Me and Pinto had before this) and started to lope a little. And Pinto saw this and he got EXCITED and wanted to run. . . .But wait. Pinto doesn't know how to run with a saddle! So he stared to BUCK HARD (First horse that has ever 1)Done this to me 2) Gotten me off) and I jumped off (Mom told me too) and I landed in mud on my tail bone...... It still hurts! lol

I got back on and everything was a-ok.

Never really read the thread lol, so much to read !

So i will tell you mine,,

Was taking my last horse back riding lesson at the time and i was 10 years old and riding an arabian, ( because i owned arabs as my first horse and at the time, they gave me the same arab all the time her name was twila, i absolutely LOVED HER )

She went and spooked, probably from one of the people watching the lesson that made a bang in the viewing room above us.
Well she spooked and i couldnt pull her back like the first time, so she went in a Full Gallop/ Canter/ Lope lol whatever you like to call it.
Well i was trying to control her the best i could and my saddle was slipping left so i was on the side of the horse and was heading toward and arena wall, i just decided to let go and fall, so i fell and rolled around on the ground for awhile, i landed in a ball lol !
So she still spooked and was running everywhere and i had someone walk beside me while riding her again for the rest of the lesson because i was afraid she would spook again.. But i miss her she was great !

I've got three the first one was when I was jumping Chinga one day and we were going through a set of jumps in a row and Chinga was having great fun and so was I. So I fell off on my first jump and my second jump hit me in the head because my foot stayed in my stirrup and he was dragging me and then on my third jump he tucked his legs up and he hit me in the chest then dragged me 1.5 acers.

My second one was my first canter bareback and I slid to the side and went under Chinga, luckly his feet missed me. I didn't get hurt but it was very scary, I got back on and did it again, without the falling off part.

Then my third fall was when I was jumping Chinga and he went spazz bucking, so I flew over his neck and badly hurt my tail bone and got concussed. Been a while since then and my tail bone still hurts alot.

2007:
On the last day of August, 2007 I went to look at a new horse, a 15 year old Arab gelding. The girl who owned him rode him in an English saddle and he did pretty well. We brought him over to my truck to fit him with my Western saddle and I asked if he ever had one on. The owner said "sure, the last owner rode him in one ..... I think" - That should have been my first clue.

He was acting nervous as I saddled him up so I took my time and showed him everything first then walked him down from the parking lot to the grass field that I was going to ride him in. I cinched him up again and as I went to mount him I jokingly said "The last thing I want to hear is 'gosh, he's never done that before'."

As my right leg brushed his back while I mounted him, he broke free from his holder and bolted. He went full throttle up to the parking lot and bucked on the stone driveway. I couldn't keep seated since I didn't have my leg in the stirrup yet and got thrown.

The long and short is that I’m told that I was unconscious for about 5 min. I ended up with a cracked pelvis, broken ribs, a concussion, and various bruises. I even had to sleep in a recliner chair for over a month since I couldn't lie down.

The next day, with the help of some meds from my doctor, I hobbled around at a horse sale and bought a pretty nice mare. It was over 2 months before I could ride her though.

It was the worse crash I had had in over 25 years of riding and it took over a year to get some of my confidence back. I've got a great little gelding now that I've been riding nearly every day but the fear is still there and shows up now and then, although little by little it’s subsiding. Gone are the days when I had no fear of getting on a strange horse or even riding at full gallop on any of my horses. In the months following the crash it took all I had to saddle up. I don’t know if I’ll ever have the nerve I once had but my love of the animal is still as strong as ever. I've taken a few falls and I’ve been thrown a few times since then but nothing like that big one.

2009:
Although I had to go through a few horses – and bucks – and being thrown – I finally have a horse that I have complete trust in even though he is a true sports car to ride. After all the really well bred horses I’ve owned, it has taken a grade gelding to bringing me back. I have no qualms about getting on him and riding the way I used to. Over the past two years I’ve even gotten back to working horses for others again but I don’t think I’ll ever fully be back to the way I used to be - maybe it’s OK to be a lot more cautious at my age!

Iride- The same thing pretty much happened to me 2 weeks ago on my new appy mare. As soon as I swung over, she took off full speed bucking like a bronc. I made it about 30 sec,before she threw me. I couldn't move for about 2 or 3 minutes.Then I got up and somehow got back on her just long enough to show that I wasn't going to not ride her because she bucked me off. Then I unsaddled and had my husband take me to the hospital. Internal bruising down my spine.
I rode her Sunday, and my nerves were so bad I was pure shaking. She did really well though, but you can just tell if somthing makes her really nervous, shes the type that is going to have a melt down. I am still on the fence about if I should try to sell her or not.

It seems like ever since my gelding died, I have had the worst time with horses. I had a paint gelding that I had only had a month before Dakota died, and (I know I shouldn't say this) I couldn't help but think every time I saw him that it should have been him. So I sold him because it just wasn't fair to him to be thought of in that way. Now I have this mare, and man, shes something.

Anyways sorry about this being so long!!haha but I think that has been my most painful fall!

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For SavvyLover and anyone else who read the whole post!

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