[juniormylove]

Well, I've officially fallen off Scooter three times. I came off today in my lesson. We were jumping a combination [2'6" to 2'9" to 3' I believe] and Scooter refused the 3' twice and then stopped dead a third time at the middle jump. I was catapulted over his shoulder, bouncing off the pole on my way down. I landed right on my side. GR. The worst part? My mom didn't catch it on video.

 

[xShilohxLovex]

Well, I have been riding for ten years now and my horse and I are inseparable. We never really had a consistent trainer before, but finally we found one named Ida. She taught me all through 2008 and she finally stopped teaching me when I fell off for the first time ever in September of 2009. This was approximately a year ago or so when I fell off by the way. But anyways, this is what happened -

My horse is an off the track Thoroughbred. So if you even walk another horse next to him, he'll go faster because what happens is his mind will click and think he's in a race. So my trainer, Ida, was teaching me to canter. Well, I was doing fine until we turned. Now my horse does everything, including run barrels, so of course he turns really fast and tight. She was cantering beside me on my friend's horse Lucky. They're both off the track, so what happened? My horse took off at a flat out gallop thinking I wanted him to. I flew off and landed on my head, bounced in the air and landed on my shoulder, and then slid across the ground. I was about two inches from the fence post. Everyone thought I was dead for sure, but I was perfectly fine, or so I thought. The only thing that kept me alive was my Troxel helmet and the fact that I know how to tuck and roll. Without that, I would have died and most likely his the fence post. So, I was very lucky.

After the fall it took me about a minute to be able to breath again, literally. Of course as soon as Shiloh felt me slide off his back and halted, turned, and ran towards me anyway which was amazing because he just cares about me enough to see if I was alright. The way my mom and trainer crowed beside me gave him enough room to take his front feet and step inbetween them and nudge me trying to get me to stand. Haha, I love my horse sooo freaking much. But yeah, that was the first time I ever fell off in the ten years I've been riding. I haven't fallen off since, but I'm sure I will soon again anyway, lolz. Since then I've gotten a new trainer whom I have been training with for about five or six weeks now. She's very good actually, and I'm really learning from her. She just may be my first consistent trainer ever. ^__^

Well, that's my story. The morals of my story: 1.) ALWAYS Wear a helmet and know how to tuck and roll. If not, be sure you know how to hang onto a canter, hahaha. 2.) ALWAYS trust your horse and treat him well. Shiloh really stepped up to me that day and showed me just how much more he cares about me.

Thanks for listening.

- <3 Shiloh

 

[xShilohxLovex]

Oh yeah, and the fall left me with the following:
Out of school for a week
Out of gym and riding my horse for a month
A serious concussion
Cracked Ribs
Dislocated Shoulder (actually I don't think it was dislocated but it was pretty badly hurt lol)
And then I had cuts and bruises everywhere. I had passed out for about 11 seconds about 10 minutes after the fall. But all in all, I got up and gave my horse a kiss anyway. I walked away in pain but happy to have a horse who cares so much. <3

 

[Cheshire]

lol yes, of course.

My first ever dump...my instructor put me on a highstrung OTTB who had no business packing a beginner around. He ignored me and went over to sniff noses with a horse in a paddock adjacent to the arena -- instructor had forgot to turn off the electric wire...hehehe. Bum, meet dirt.

I've had some other unplanned dismounts but nothing huge, knock on wood. Helmets are wonderful things though...reckon one saved my life once!

 

[GreyRay]

I have fallen off many times, 4 years old being walked under short branches ECT... I was 6(I think) riding my gelding, mom had him on the lunge line, my little sister ran in front of him, so Smoke tryed to run around her but slipped and fell over, my foot was cought in the stirrup. I had a sprained ankle.

I was riding Smoke bareback with only a rein around his nose in 07. The ragweed was huge and two of my little siblings fallowed me, they thought it would be funny to hide and then touch his hind legs as we walked by... Well Smoke reared and I rolled off his but Hahaha! good times!

I was riding Chip for the first time, he threw me into a barn door... He felt it just as much as I did.

Twas a warm summer day, riding my dads pally paint gelding down the road... He wanted to trot and throw his nose in the air when I told him to slow down, so I pushed him into a canter, his hind legs slipped out from under him and we both went sliding down the road. I had a big lump on my elbow, road rash on my knee, a broken wrist.. and the @SSHOLE RUINED MY FAVORITE PANTS!!!! Oh... and Littleman had a small bald spot above his eye.
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[trIplEcrOwngIrl]

I've been riding for 5 years and I remember falling of 3 times but there have problably been more . The first time, I was riding a barn sour mare who decided to canter back to the barn while I was ridng alone. So I made the quick decidon to jump off while we were in the grass rather than hold on a risk getting dumped of the gravel. The second time, me and my brother were racing our horses and my horse took a crazy turn I wasn't ready for and I did a backflip off . The last time, I was cantering my horse coming back after hitting the trails and he turns and starts galloping towards the barn. I fell off about 3 seconds before he stopped . Well, thers my stories!

 

[Regan7312]

i just got bucked off yesterday actually...landed on my tailbone and elbow. i am quite sore : /

 

[AnimalFarm2006]

I think I'm the only person that has ever fallen off while trying to get on a standing horse. He didn't even move. I was trying to get on page from a block. But I'm short, and page is tall so it was a chore to get on him. That one time I fell, I pulled myself up, failed, and went down to miss the stool and fall on my back. Page turned to me to give me that, "what are you doing down their" look. He's a sweety pie and I love him a ton!!!

 

[gratifite]

Being dumped isn't easy, but if it wasn't that serious of a relationship to begin with, you will get over it soon. The pain you feel right now will turn into a dull ache that will linger for maybe a couple weeks. But after that, you'll start to forget, and you should be as good as new in about a month.

Actually, there's a lot of truth to this when is comes to riding. Being dumped isn't easy, the pain does fade and after awhile you forget most of it.....if it didn't, who would ride again

No, you have this backwards.

Very rarely is someone ever thrown from a horse. Thrown implies intent by the animal to get you off its back.

99.99% of the time, people fall off. If the horse stumbles and you lose your balance, you fell off. If the horse spooks and you come unseated, you fell off. If the horse bolts and you don't have the ability to stay with him, you fell off.

If a horse deliberately bucks in an attempt to get you off, then you can consider yourself thrown. Otherwise, in the majority of scenarios you've merely fallen off because you couldn't stay in the saddle.

Yeah, but who wants to admit they fell off their own horse??? It's kinda like admitting you fell out of bed :lol:. Last time I came off my horse, he spooked, and I made an unanticipated dismount which resulted in a broken leg. Just my clever way of hiding my ineptitude .

 

[ErikaLynn]

Ive fallen off about a million times, but the funniest one was when I fell off at the walk. I was just walking around the ring on a horse that just came to the barn about 4 hours ago, and the bridle was messed up, so I leaned over to fix it, and I guess the horse saw my hand out of the corner of her eye and spooked and did a little side step and off I went. I just think its funny, because who falls off at a walk.

 

[Michael]

Well we were trail riding I was on a green horse putting some miles on him for my uncle who swears every horse he has is broke to death LOL. Anyway this was this horses 6 ride so I found out when we got home. Going through a water crossing the girl in front of me horse did not want to cross. She got her started in the crossing and she spun and came back our way. Well the horse I was on decided that, that little mare was going to eat him and went NUTS. Well to make a long story short don't trust my uncle about a horse being broke which I should have know. Story of my life riding horses for my uncle I should have learned a long time ago.

 

[flamingauburnmustang]

Yeah, but who wants to admit they fell off their own horse??? It's kinda like admitting you fell out of bed :lol:

I was thrown out of my bed.....? :lol:

Okay, honestly, I can't count how many times I have fallen off a horse, but I can list a few briefly:

When jumping Stoeka a few years ago, let's just say I went left, she went right. My knee is still sore from hitting into the upright...

Jumping Prinsie, she overjumped and I was pretty inexperienced in jumping at the time so I stayed in the air a few seconds longer than she did...

Somersaulted off Yster, he was cantering then stopped dead and I went over his head, half landing on my feet then eventually my butt.

Jumping Night Heat, she had been refusing the second jump of a combination a few times, so I wasn't expecting her to jump it. She half stopped, then went over it awkwardly and I came off and landed on both my knees (looked like I was praying :lol: )

Cantering King around the lunge ring when he bolted, tripped and half fell, I went down too and slammed into the rail...ouch...

Was unseated by Argentine's buck and landed on my tail bone...

I think I better stop now...... :mrgreen:

 

[ellygraceee]

I was thrown out of my bed.....? :lol:

You can be thrown outta bed! You never know what lurks in your bedroom at night... haha.

I stopped counting at 100 falls (my friend and I were competing to see who fell off less)... My brat of a pony used to throw me. He'd buck, bolt, pigroot, rear, flip, stop, spin and roll all with the intent of getting me off. Once he'd succeeded in getting me off, the rest of the ride would go perfectly. If he didn't manage to get me off, the rest of the ride would be a fight. He was a fantastic pony until I started getting more experienced. Then it was like he felt the need to test me. But that ended up being fine. My confidence sky rocketed and my ability to stick to horses improved immensely. Half of the falls would have been my fault, but god he could buck.
All my falls off Barcoo revolved around jumps. He had the ability to start to take off from a jump, then slam his front feet down and sit on his backside, neck down. He managed to get my cousin off and she's headed to Nationals for Eventing... I had one fall when Barcoo did that, slipped and fell sideways onto me. My leg was trapped for 1/2hr and the ambos got lost. -.-'
I've fallen off Toby and broken my back (my worst fall ever). He tends to just scoot sideways when something scares him and he just happened to catch me mid-rise. He saw a horsefloat and decided to chase it so I landed on my chin and had my body flipped over my head. Then the ambos got lost trying to find our place. -.-'
All my falls off Joe have been completely my fault. That horse doesn't have a mean bone in his body. My worst was when I was cantering without stirrups and he has a real rocking horse canter. I asked him to stop and I started bouncing around so turned him into the fence. I ended up landing on the fence. That wooden fence is really solid apparently.

 

[Sunny]

This is a fall I witnessed. I was riding Gunner, and my two friends were riding double on Bud. We were riding down a road and passed train tracks where a train was coming. We thought it'd be fun towatch it. WRONG. The first car went by, Gunner was prancing and snorting, but under control. I guess my friend didn't expect it, so she didn't have Bud tight. He bolted, my horse followed. Friend 1 fell off to the right and landed on the grass, and Friend 2 fell onto the assfault at bolting speed face first, and my horse went over her. My horse refused to stop until the train had passed, and when I got off I hit ice and twisted my ankle, and had to run to catch Bud. I hobbled down the road leading two horses, crying and screaming for my friends. When I found them, Friend 2 had a VERY bloody face and had been knocked unconscious. We had to walk back over a mile and were alone. My mom had to make the 30 minute trip over and then to the hospital. Friend 2 has MULTIPLE scars on her face and arms. Very scary day.
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[Sunny]

Oh, too add.....the horses ran over a mile. So, I walked around 2.5 miles with a twisted ankle holding two horses, one who was walking WAY ahead and one who was lagging way behind. Just because I love considerate people, multiple cars passed and didn't stop. :/ Oh, Friend 1 was the only one of us wearing a helmet, so Friend 2 was VERRRRYYYY lucky to get by with scars, blood, and a concussion after hitting assfault face-first with no helmet at breakneck speeds.
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[DSJ46]

Only been thrown once. A cat flushed a rabbit from some weeds, and it went right between Sassy's fronts. That was ok, because she only took some quick steps backwards and to the side...but...right into some hot wire. She jerked forward, and since I had turned back to see where the hot wire was...just in time to see her hit it...I was off balance and twisted out of the seat and hit the ground. I was worried she would run, but had to laugh, since, not only did she stand perfectly still but looked back at me as if to say "what are you doing there on the ground?..." I mounted up again and we rode for another hour or so.

 

[shaker]

We have two pastures, one where the horses stay most of the time and one just for grazing. They are about 600 yards apart, and usually when we take the horses back to graze my daughter and I do it together. She leads Thunder and being I am lazy I use Dixie's lead rope as reins and bareback her. (Why walk when you can ride?)

So about two weeks ago my daughter is not home and I decide to take the horses back to graze on my own. I am going to bare back Dixie and pony Thunder. Now usually Dixie stands solid as a rock when I get on, but Thunder is not usually right next to us when I mount her. Anyway I jump up on Dixie and as soon as I left the ground thunder spooked, which made Dixie spook. I rolled off the back of Dixie and landed square on my chest knocking the wind out of me. Dixie stopped and looked back at me with a "I'm so sorry" look on her face.

I sure found out a 31 year old doesn't bounce like a twenty year old that day.

 

[kaydeebug]

haha well my way was the most embarrassing ever. i decided i was gonna use my pole and racing horse. now she is an extremely hot horse and scared of things, so i decided i would carry a flag on her for the riverton rodeo. BAD IDEA. i did the sponsor flags. once i got in to run around she freaked out cause the wipping sound of the flag. she ran straight down the middle. i went one way she went the other. i fell off somehow my hat ended up halfway across the arena. and the flag stuck in the ground while she was running and it broke in half. and she was still running, she is lucky the part that stayed in the saddle didnt stab her. and so i was left with a HUGE internal bruise on my leg. and this was in front of hundreds of people. lovely huh? well im new to this so add me and i dont know how to use any of this so help me

 

[meldives]

I'm 31 and have just started lesson - i've had 8 or 9 I think so far. Everything was going really well until my most recent lesson where I fell not once but twice! The first was at a small jump where my horse just stopped and i kept going. Somehow though i managed to land on my feet. Seriously it's the best dismount i have done so far! Twisted my knee a little but was all ok. The second time was probably about half an hour later. We were cantering in the paddock and the horse infront of mine swerved into my horse. That made my horse swerve and i swerved with him and he swerved again and then again and that's when I came off. Landed on the back of my hip which is seriously sore at the moment and then my head. i was seeing blurry stars for a while! The thumb on the other side of my body is also really sore and is already turning lovely shades of yellow and purple

 

[Brithorse1996]

I did a somersault of a 16 hand horse and we'll leave it at that