Re: Learning how to fall off...

["cds" <trierfrm@internetcds.com>]

  Yes, actually learned when I was about ten years old, when I was taking lessons in Glendale, Arizona from Ednabelle's School of Horsemenship. I'll just tell you what she had us do.....okay, here goes,  .how to fall of a horse and NOT break your neck,

we practiced it in a soft dirt arena at a walk, then a jog, then a lope, first let go of the reins while you are slipping your feet out of the stirrups and place one of your hands on the back of your neck, duck your head and roll of forward to the left side, i guess thats because since thats the side you mount on it feels more natural to come off to that side, she never said why.  feels like you are doing a summersault, i wouldn't want to do it in a rocky area.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Lif Strand

To: tblazer2000@yahoo.com ; ridecamp@endurance.net

Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 10:09 PM

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

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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