How about your crash stories???

[Bojangles37]

I go up to the hospital. The force of Rocky falling back on my mom pushed her hip bone through the socket

I know a girl who was training a pony and it just slipped and fell on her, no one was around, it forced the ball through the socket in her hip and literally shattered the entire joint. She still walks with a HORRIBLE limp to this day, she was only 24 or so at the time, it was about 3 years ago now.

[BMorrison]

Yeah, that's about what happened. Missed my mom's femoral artery by less than a 1/4"

[Ginevive]

Wow..! I have never fallen off (knock on wood) as of yet. Had a Scary incident where my camp horse and I were trotting patterns. His foot went right into a gopher hole and WOW was that terrifying! It was his rear leg so I almost slid right off but through some miracle of his, he got through it without really falling or tossing me. Then he was spooked and ran off with me sawing the reins to no avail and I was mortified when a counselor had to cut us off at the chase and grab his bridle.. lol.
Then once when I was younger, at my friend's place, I was in the box stall grooming her one mare. Mare sidles me up to the side of the stall and just stands there eating her hay. I am stuck between the side of the mare and the wall! I tried pushing.. no dice. Just had to wait it out! Nowadays this won't happen because I know the pressure points and am bigger, but it is funny to look back on.

[ZinniaZ]

Ginevieve, I hope your falls are easy-- just stories to tell with not much bruising.

Some of the falls on this thread are SCARY. I am not having any of THOSE kind of falls.

[kc261]

First:
I was in kindergarten, and my aunt had just given me a pony. We lived in the city at the time (although shortly after we moved to the country), so the pony went to live at a stable. Previously the pony had lived in a field in semi-desert, where the ground was usually very hard and dry. So I go to ride the pony the first time, and she thinks the nice soft ground in the arena is way too good to pass up, and just lays down for a nice roll, even though I was on her back! I was able to scramble out of the way and was unhurt.

Scariest:
Never ride on a trail you aren't familiar with, even if you know other horse people ride on it. I got to a part where the footing as we were crossing a fairly steep slope just seemed too scary to me. I decided it would be better if I dismounted. Not quite sure what happened, but somehow the next second I was standing on the trail, and my poor pony was somersaulting down the hillside. Ponies do NOT look good doing somersaults. I was sure she was dead. She actually walked back home and checked out ok with the vet, other than a few minor scratches. But I'll never get that image out of my head.

Wish I had a video:
Later I got a horse. She had interesting ways of expressing herself when she didn't want to do as she was told. One time I was complemented on the beautiful lateral movements we had been doing. Only problem was I had been asking her for a straight forward trot, and going sideways was her way of rebelling. This one isn't quite a crash, but another time, she reared up when she didn't want to go forward. I've been on a rearing horse a few times before & also after, and this one particular time was nothing like the spooked rearing. I swear she held it for the longest time and it felt like we were just floating there. It was not a very high rear, and I had no trouble keeping my seat. I have often wondered if it would have looked like she was doing a levade.