Anyone\u00a0who rides a horse enough times is going to fall off.<\/p>\n
There is a small chance that a person could ride a horse for a significant period of time without falling off, just as there is a small chance that a person could get into a car every day and not get into a fender bender.\u00a0 Do you personally know anyone who has never been in some kind of collision inside a motor vehicle?\u00a0 I don’t.\u00a0 Every one of my family members, friends, and acquaintances I’ve asked have at least bumped into something while inside a car.\u00a0 For this reason, cars are made so passengers inside will have the least amount of possible injury in a car accident.<\/p>\n
Just as auto manufacturers try to decrease the risk of injury in car accidents, people who ride horses should try to reduce the risk of injury when they fall off horses.\u00a0 In other words, riders need to plan on falling off and prepare for it, assuming that it is almost inevitable no matter how careful you are or how well trained your horse is.<\/p>\n
There are ways to reduce injury when falling off a horse with the use of equipment such as wearing helmets, boots or shoes with heels that won’t get caught up in stirrups, putting safety stirrups and quick release bars on your saddle, body protectors, and others.<\/p>\n
These are all good, but one thing that is sometimes overlooked is that riders need to learn how to properly fall off a horse.\u00a0 The first time I heard this, I immediately felt some anxiety.\u00a0 I imagined practicing tumbling forward off the horse and trying to not break or bruise anything until I either learned how to be gymnastic or died in the process.\u00a0 Something like what is shown in the video below:<\/p>\n
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