a few weeks ago I took my boy cross country jumpin around a local EC. we don't have much joy with coloured poles and tend to just hack out really but i knew that if we did the XC jumps behind another horse he would do it and the theory was that this would help me get my confidence and enable him to just follow without thinking or stressing out too much. Any way a `few' other people on yard heard we were going and tagged along for the day out. This is where it all went pear shaped!!! we ended up trying to jump too much too high and way too fast for my liking, i fell off and lost my bottle but the people I were with just wanted to keep going. In the end I was a wreck, shaking and very upset, it took me 4 days to get over it!!!Anyway I learned from it--1. never ride with them again!
2. I can not jump in treeless saddle!!!!!!!
so I have purchased new leather saddle for jumpin went out on sunday on a hack with some good friends, who listen when I say im out of my depth. we all jumped a log and tried to jump it on way home. I was 2nd in a row of 4 My horse went to jump then didint then he did and i went flying!!! worse of all the other two atill had to come over me. I curled up in a ball waiting for the pain, one horse reared up and slammed her front feet either side of me, splitting my hat
we all cried our eyes out it was soooo scary and now I feel at the lowest point ever. I have two small children, what if something had happened to me??? when I think about it I cry.I really love riding and would like to be able to jump up to 3 ft without falling off !! SHOULD I GIVE UP???? thanks for reading, sorry it was so long x x