So Daylin broke her arm yesterday

Don't give yourself to hard a time, we all learn by our mistakes and there were plenty of ponies i rode when i learnt to ride that weren't green and would have done worse than that including one that used to roll on it's riders, when one kid took offence to this he whipped the horse and the horse kicked out and took the boy's nose off - and that was a reputable riding school. :o

Owe! Ya......still. I trusted him like an idiot! Thanks Lipi!

Aww, that's just bad luck! Tons of kids come off green horses all the time.

pure dumb luck that she broke her arm...seriously....I mean..how many times do people go flying off and NOT break something??? A LOT. I've came off a few times on horsesand broke nothing, I've fallen off of 3 different roofs at the BSA camp I worked at (2 total accidents and one TOTAL stupidity on my part...carrying a couch up to a roof with people on 2 ladders--not a bright idea), fallen down stairs, had a Great Dane wrap a chain around my ankle where she was temp. tied up and jerk me off my feet (still have a scar from that)...no broken bones...yet I slip and fall on some ice and break my foot and tear every ligiment/tendon in it.
I hope she is feeling better soon...those bone breaks are OWWWWWWWWWWWW! I took some homeopathic stuff my friend Erin sent me for bone knitting and some other stuff for topical pain on my foot...I healed up QUICK and only had to take ibuprofen! They told me it was gonna be 8 weeks before I could walk without crutches...they took my crutches away at just under 4 weeks due to the quick healing!

You know, your stories remind me.....the last time she broke something? It was her ankle.....do you know how she did it? Stepping over a mound in a strawberry patch while in flip-flops! Talk about dumb luck...her flip flop got caught on the weed netting stuff and held her foot still while she was going over, twisted it, and she plopped down right on top of the ankle cracking it....

She asked why she has such bad luck on the way to the hospital. I said "you don't, it just happens".

She goes, "I don't know anyone else who falls off a horse all the time!" (She fell off Lacy going over a jump last week).

I just told her she was lucky to be alive and healthy.

I think I'm going to make sure she takes her vitamins though. I never (knock-on-wood) have broken anything....

any time I get really hurt, it's pure dumb luck. I'm also a bit of a klutz! LOL Tell her to come join the club :D

Yes, I am definitely not known for being graceful either.

Oh dear! I'm sorry to hear that!! It could happen to anyone, green horse or not! My kid fell off the very first time he rode. . . and I was right there with a lead line and at his leg. . .sigh. (pony shook)

those shakes can just about unseat anyone sometimes! There was a percheron cross pony at college I rode quite a bit and he could SHAKE. He'd almost get me off if he caught me off guard...and that was with a saddle on him! LOL

Awwww, poor kiddo. Give her a hug and tell her that riders fall off all the time, not just beginning riders but very experienced riders can fall off green horses and very well trained horses, too. As she grows and rides more she will learn better balance and rhythm with both her body and her ridden horse. It takes time to develop those skills of muscle and balance control coupled with an awareness of your horse and the ability to react appropriately to the signals you receive from its' behavior and actions that you feel/notice while riding.
It wasn't the fall that hurt her ... it was the sudden stop when she landed. Will she have to wear a cast?

(I've always thought 'the shakes' were easiest to ride out bareback so the saddle didn't beat your inner legs)

Sorry to hear about Daylin but it could happen even on a more experienced horse. I have seen some of the quitest horses that you would trust any child with get spooked or have a little moment of madness.
Hope Daylin feels better soon

Hope she gets better soon

[quote="Bannerminis"] I have seen some of the quitest horses that you would trust any child with get spooked or have a little moment of madness. [/quote]

oh sooooooo true. we had a horse at the BSA camp I would have trusted any beginner kid on. One of my favorites and I often took him out on alone rides just so he could have some rides with someone not accidentally yanking on him or jabbing him with their heels or something (I actually did this with all the horses the kids rode, just so they didn't get sour--and if a horse had a rough week, it was "MY" horse the following week). Anyway...we were heading back to the barn one day from a ride we took by ourselves....and he chucked me into a tree...then trampled over me and took us both through some barbed wire..thankfully we only got a few scratches each--nothing major..but my helmet died a slow, painful death. Then he took off at a brisk walk and trot back to the barn....booger. Couldn't find any noticable bug bites or anything on him...nothing out of the ordinary. I hopped back on him and had one of my wranglers ride with me and we went right back out and then came back and it was a no issue...never had a problem with him the rest of that summer or the next summer either.

Thanks all! I just took her to the tack shop to get a new helmet (she's making me crazy with 'I'm bored' 'I'm bored', I'm BOARD!). Either her pain meds are really good or she's tough! One crutch (can't use the arm) and a sling and she's ready to go helmet shopping!

She won't look at her knee. It's like a cantaloupe kinda on the outside of it.....

Aren't pain meds supposed to make them sleepy? It's Hydrocodone....

hydrocodone makes me all alert and spazzy and nervous and paranoid and jittery and itchy....along with making me feel like I'm floating. So I don't take that when they give it to me...also makes me sick to my stomach. It affects all people differently.

Don't worry about it being on a green horse! Just last night, I managed to dump a kid of an experienced horse (14 year old, dead broke) when he spooked at me, bucked and ran off. It happens.

:D OK, I feel better....she's still not riding him again for awhile!

Day says, "Hello, and Thanks!"

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She hurt her knee too? Poor baby!

Oww! I've never broken anything so I don't know her pain but send her get wells :) and we all take tumbles. Mine are always of the stupid variety. The other day Classy's new owner was coming to see her and I didn't know Dad had left the bottom field gate open so here I go out to get her and realize she's gone all the way down the hill and in the woods. Hike down the hill with the halter and half a scoop of grain and think "I'm so tired, I don't feel like walking back up and Classy's so gentle I'll just hop on and ride up" Which would have worked if I had considered the OTHER two. :lol: I fed them all a handfull and dumped the rest on the ground to distract V and Ali, haltered and tied the rope for a rein and found a stump, swung up -and the other two promply decided to have a fight over the oats and slammed into Classy. :roll: I was then laying on my back repeating "I am an idiot". :hammer I'm just lucky my head didn't connect with a rock. :shock:

[quote="accphotography"]She hurt her knee too? Poor baby![/quote]

Yeah, but it's just swollen up..... when we got home from the hospital and I peeled her riding pants off? It was like a cartoon - SHOOP - and it even seemed to bounce and I could hear the 'boing' noise as if it were Wile E's knee....really weird and I couldn't hold back a "holy shit. You didn't say anything about your knee"

[quote="Morgan"] I'm just lucky my head didn't connect with a rock. :shock:[/quote] Definitely a good thing! Did they see? Do you have a method of landing? I was wondering if she could be taught to roll as she lands rather than sticking her hand out to catch herself. I know it's a natural response, but she falls off quite a bit.....less and less now, but still.

Cyn is being absolutely angelic. I walked him into the barn with no lead and when I stopped, he stopped and looked at me. I'd take one step and he'd take just one....Of course I think the vibes I'm giving off now are 'one freakin' step out of place buddy....'

He's really such a good boy I can't believe it happened.

[quote="Jenks"] Do you have a method of landing? [/quote]
Mostly I just go limp. Not sure if thats a good method or not but so far I just end up on my backside (not a surprise with my shape...:lol:)

Jenks, as you probably know, my daughter is a gymnast (well, until she messed up her knee), a competitive gymnast, who has won lots of golds, is the only one in the country who did a dive roll that was in excess of 6 feet off the ground, and was like a feather moving on a gentle breeze when doing her skills. That said, she has problems walking across the floor in the living room! Bounces off the walls, stumbles into the coffee table/desk, trips over a blade of grass...take her off a piece of wood 4" wide and 6 feet off the ground (or the bars on the uneven bars...she stands straight up on those and walks them like the rest of us do the ground), and she's a total klutz! So your daughter's not the only one! LOL

Diane

I always land on my back too - like lower back - I always thought it was my legs that refuse to let go until the very end and so I'm already halfway down when they let loose and by then it's right as I'm trying to crunch sorta. There should be a falling off class!

OMG Diane, I am literally snorting I'm laughing so hard. That is Day. Stubbed her toe just now coming in on the door frame. Stubborn child refuses to stay down.

I was taught a safety roll so that I take the hit in my shoulder, back and legs and attempt to keep my head from hitting. It's the same one I learned in karate to spread the force of the hit. Once she's back able to ride, have her practice an emergency dismount from a standing horse. You want to pitch yourself off forward and to the side and aim to hit with the shoulder or upper back on the side you are coming off. You hit with your shoulder and roll over to your back and legs. When I do it right, I can use the momentum to roll up on to my feet.

[quote="Monsterpony"]I was taught a safety roll so that I take the hit in my shoulder, back and legs and attempt to keep my head from hitting. It's the same one I learned in karate to spread the force of the hit. Once she's back able to ride, have her practice an emergency dismount from a standing horse. You want to pitch yourself off forward and to the side and aim to hit with the shoulder or upper back on the side you are coming off. You hit with your shoulder and roll over to your back and legs. When I do it right, I can use the momentum to roll up on to my feet.[/quote]

Can I get a video demo? I swear I'll video both of us practicing it.....

PS - ymwhisle please? LOL

I know the roll that MP is talking about, and it used to be the first thing taught, before the horse was even allowed to move (well, at least at the places where I used to ride). Last time I tried to demo it, I couldn't...something about deliberately throwing myself 'into harm' just is no longer part of my makeup! I still can do it tho', as I have used it in real emergency situations.

Jenks, it drives my hubby crazy the absolute different between her on the various gymnastics apparatuses (apparati?) and her off them. I do have to say, she's gotten into wearing higher heeled shoes (can't keep her in flats as an 18yo :( ), her level of gracefulness off the gymnastics gear has improved. That might cheer Daylin up (and drive you crazy! LOL).

Diane

Ouchies! I'm sure she'll bounce right back though, kids are tough.
Falls that mess you up always come as a surprise, don't they. I've been climbing a bunch and earlier this year spent a lot of time bouldering, which is where you climb without ropes but not so high that you die if you fall (usually you try to direct your fall onto a big foam pad you carry along with you). One day climbing I fell a bunch of times with no problems, then on the way to another climbing area, while WALKING on a flat trail, stumbled on nothing and broke my foot. Nowadays it only takes a couple hard landings for the foot to start hurting again. :-x

The only times I've ever sprained my ankles have been in bare feet or sneakers....6" heels were a breeze for walking, running, whatever! LOL

Diane