Re: RC: Learning how to fall off...

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 09:46 PM 6/11/00 -0700, B.E. Jackson wrote:
> Has anyone out there actually taken lessons
> (such as in vaulting or trick riding) to learn how to safely bail off a
> horse?

Sure did, and they were really great lessons!  My instructor when I
was a kid insisted on our learning how to get off at at all gaits (well,
not the gallop) & made us practice it till it was automatic. 
Good thing, cause I've used it!  The most important trick to
remember about bailing off is to kick your feet out of the stirrups
*before* leaving the horse's back!  Very important!  Only once
I haven't done that (the horse was bucking & I wasn't really thinking
straight) and I spent a while in bed after that episode.  I also
always kick my feet out of the stirrups before dismounting and it has
been a good habit to have.    Lif

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