share your oops moments, optional photo

[newforest]

This is a photo showing what happened when I rode a medium dressage horse. I think it's called an embarrassing moment as my instructor was the owner.
We weren't ready for each other

 

[Trewsers]

Hehehe, you clearly didn't gel right away.....
If I can work out how to get stuff off my old mobile, I've got a cracking slithering shot of me coming off Storm.....

 

[newforest]

I cantered half way round the school like that. I sort of got wedged.
Still the half pass looked nice beforehand.

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

Bwaaa hahaha! Oh Lordy, I've done things like that.

 

[Gattino]

I have loads, you know its a good one when my coach says she wishes she had got on video.

I did go for a swim on first hunt with Cyrus about 20 mins in when our landing times did not ccoordinate off a drop into water

 

[joosie]

I have had too many to count but thankfully not many of them have been caught on camera! I have these ones though - and yes in the second one I did land on my feet, ta daaa

 

[joosie]

Forgot this one! Wish I knew how to mute the video.... so embarrassing But there WAS a rabbit, I swear!

This one was because we got in way too close and Twirl had to jump from a standstill. She was always such a genuine pony bless her!



Same mistake with Dessie too - another New Forest pony with a big heart!



This one is an example of why you should never only use 2 trotting poles



Annie at our first show, just went a bit wrong

 

[CharliesAngel]

i have hit the deck on many, many occasions over the years but stayed in the plate both of these time lol

 

[juliecwuk]

Mine - a funride two years ago.

 

[newforest]

I remember that.

 

[Dannii5691]

 

[KP nut]

No photo thankfully but I vividly recall an ODE when I had to release and retake the reins across the diagonal in canter. The dressage test was in a big field and there were lots of horses about. I should have just ignored that particular move! As it was I released the reins and he galloped merrily off leaving us DQed.

 

[Trewsers]

I once hopped on a RS horse for a lesson and was soooo keen I came right off at the other side. To this day I can't work out how it happened, teacher said I must have been really keen!lol

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

Love your sequence juliecwuk!

 

[MAC66]

In over 40 years of riding I have had so many "oops" moments and not one picture! I've been left hanging from my horse upside down attached to a stirrup, draped over jumps, deposited in mud and all sorts of near misses.

 

[Kite_Rider]

Loving these, so funny and to those of you who land on your feet, well that's just showing off I never get any of my ooops moments either MAC66

 

[horseandgoatmom]

Lots of "oops" too but no photos. In a jumping lesson no rabbits but too many jumps- too many horses- too many instructors- and lets throw in one unsupervised small child on a really small pony ------ all in one ring. The kid came out of nowhere right in front of the jump I was almost at and stopped right on the other side of it. With the way the jumps were packed in I had no place to go and really no time to react. The school horse slammed on the brakes and I flew up and landed standing right next to him.
Thankfully we were ok and he did not hit the jump if he had the poles would have slammed the kid and the pony.

 

[Rubic]

I have too many...

This was not long after I bought Rubic... we had some serious braking issues which resulted in us getting the strides of a combination completely wrong at clear rounds. First we were too close

Put the fence down to get us both over it without me falling off...
Then we were too far away...

Stayed on that time though!

But we managed it properly after all that

There was also this video... (go to about 50sec if you want to see were it all starts to go wrong)

This one was before I bought Rubic

 

[Cortrasna]

I am loving these, they are so funny, so long as it is someone else riding - or not as the case might be!

I haven't any pics unfortunately of my rather impressive unplanned dismounts. Somewhere in the family there is a grainy old video of me somersaulting head first over a youngster I was breaking in, alas she broke me in, rather badly!

I have ridden for over 60 years and actually been very, very lucky and not fallen off many times at all (touches wood frantically!)but have spent quite a bit of time galloping about around the horses ears or hanging half off the side and then managing to hike myself back in the saddle by any means possible. No style but velcro bum back in the day.

 

[Jane&Ziggy]

Oh I love those Rubic pictures! What an honest honest mare she was, she really wanted to get over that jump.