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- From: rmvale@watnow.uwaterloo.ca (Ruth Vale)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Re: Emergency Dismount (was: What to do about fear)
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:53:17 GMT
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- References: <C15vs8.3yw@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> <1993Jan25.020027.17705@netcom.com> <C1Fx2x.9H5@inews.Intel.COM>
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- In article <C1Fx2x.9H5@inews.Intel.COM> jsnyder@cadev5.intel.com (Jan Snyder ) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.020027.17705@netcom.com> wcollins@netcom.com (Walter J. Collins)
- >writes:
- >>I'd like to add a fwe comments to the emergency dismount discussion.
- > [deletions]
- >
- >If I could manage a controlled emergency dismount as Ruth Vale described,
- >I might try to hold onto the reins. Usually, though, I've been "jumped
-
- Whether or not you hang on to the reins depends on how far you are from
- home and just how the horse reacts to a sudden pull in the mouth. Mine
- is awfully sensitive and will stop and spin rather than pull the reins
- out of my hands. My usual tendency is to hang on lightly and if she stops
- then so be it, but I'm not going to risk pulled back muscles to avoid
- the walk home. If she rips the reins out of my hands, then she gets to
- step on them all the way home :-\.
-
- Something I forgot to mention on that dismount - the standing/running
- landing is okay in good footing or if you're not moving too fast. If
- you twist an ankle in rutted ground, you're going to go down anyway
- and then you don't want to be dragged by the reins. Better to control
- the landing with a forward shoulder roll (tuck in the shoulder, head
- arms and all other parts at risk and follow the momentum).
-
- If the horse has gotten into racing mode, you'll probably be going too
- fast to stay on your feet. In this case, land as I described but
- tuck the left shoulder/head under and do a shoulder roll so that the roll
- absorbs the forward motion. You likely won't want to hang on to the reins
- in this case, since they'll wrap around your arm. I assumed throughout
- that you'd ditched the stirrups at the first sign of trouble because
- they can be recovered when the situation is back under control. If you're
- getting off, you don't need them.
-
- >I am definitely interested in some discussion on this. Tips on training
- >for that perfect response to the verbal WHOA would be most welcome!
-
- I don't recommend this as a training technique, but as long as Spring
- was headshy and afraid of the bit, a strong "WHOA" would stop her in
- her tracks most of the time. Now that she's not afraid of the bit
- anymore, I'm going to have to think of something else :-). "STAND" works
- better now, except when she's been inside too much and would really
- like to go for a run (which Mom won't let her do because Mom's afraid
- she's going to do in that bowed tendon again).
-
- Ruth
- (who is itching to be back in Spring's saddle after a winter on
- the equine's Disabled list).
-
-
- --
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- I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am
- not sure you realize that what you understand is not what I meant.
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