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To: Xenalyte
You're absolutely correct -- most falls are just that, falls -- hardly anybody gets "bucked off".

I've been riding nearly 50 years (started when I was 4) and I can only think of 2-3 times when a horse deliberately bucked me off. Stopping in front of fences, now, that's a different story - that happens to me ALL the time although less since I switched from hunter-jumper to combined training, since I'm sitting deeper in the saddle and thus less likely to get "launched".

62 posted on 03/22/2007 10:18:34 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

And you know, I'm willing to bet that the few times the horse took it into his head to ditch me, it probably WAS my fault, and I just didn't realize it at the time.

My last fall I knew was coming before I even left the saddle. Sam the Perch was cantering around the ring, and I was doing that fluid thing with the torso and arms to keep in the rhythm, and I lost said rhythm and knew a trip to the ground was in my immediate future.

My buddy Angela said it was one of the most graceful falls ever. She taught me most of what I know about how to fall, so I trust her judgement. ;)


67 posted on 03/22/2007 10:22:45 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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