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- From: morrigan@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Melissa Lee Cox)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Emergency Dismounts
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 17:52:11 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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- Back to a thread from a bit ago.....
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- At the stable where I rode for 7 years, we used to take lots of
- great trail rides. My first instructor was a real daredevil (( :_) )) and
- would occasionally take us out bareback on trails. I have always been tall
- (5'11 now), so when the other teens were on borderline pony-horses, I was on
- the 15.1 REAL horses. The only time this bugged me (I like my horses tall)
- was on the trails without a saddle.
- On one summer bareback ride, I was on a monster Appy with a horrible
- bony back, and I started slipping. After hanging on for a few seconds, I did
- a forward somersault off of his right side onto a gravel covered path,
- landing on the back of my head. All I have to say is thank God for helmets,
- and it's a good thing I knew the RIGHT way to fall off, because when I
- opened my eyes, I was well out of the horse's way, and I still had my
- reins!! Sweet beast that he was, he was standing ther munching grass and
- waiting for me to get back on.
- I think teaching people who ride that they also need to know how to
- fall is extremely valuable. Even if you don't think about it (I certainly
- didn't), you are likely to do it the right way.
-
- Also, a side note to Rosalie.....I go to Johns Hopkins here in
- B'more, and I'd like to know where you ride. Trying to find a place......
-
- Melissa, possible future vet and horse-crazy (but horseless) person
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