What is the worst fall you have ever had?

I came off 2 times in 10 minutes...broke my tail bone and hurt my pride big time!  Couldn't get on a horse for 8 weeks after that!

My worst fall?? hmmm I dont know about a fall, but I was thrown into a fence after a barrel race. I've been bucked off and trampled and so many other things but I've been ridin since I could sit in the saddle. and I'm 17 now

i've fallen off so many times i cant count them but my worst would probabley b when i was having my pony club C test and my horse bucked me off twice and each time i landed on the same arm which swelled up and went purple and i couldnt move it for days :P stil finished my C test though!

I've fallen off/been bucked off more times than I can remember! Although it hasn't happened in a very long time. It mostly happened more when I was younger. I was riding my friends horse when I was first learning (before I had one of my own,I think I was 14 ish) He was very green and I was bucked of at least three times that day alone before I was too sore to continue. I've never had anything too tragic happen mostly just bumps and bruises..

I just had a really bad fall yesterday. I was riding a huge saddlebred that id probably 17hh. I was riding past a door and somebody opened it and he spooked and I lost my stirup. I sort of slid so I was on his side and he decided that i wasn't going to stay on and he bolted and I fell off. My helmet hit my glasses which bent and hit me in the eye. So now I have a black eye and I can't turn my head or move without being in pain. That was really my first fall. But I sort of fell off 2 other times.

I had a bad fall the wind blew up the saddle blanket and he thru me off and i held on to the reins and it ricocheted me under him and he stood on my face it took all the skin off my top lip and my teeth went thru my lip as well. The doctor told me i was luck he didn't put all his weight down as i would  have a lot of broken bones and if he had shoes i could of lost my nose.

Well, since my last post, I've had a few more falls.  Kinda happens when you are at an Equestrian school...it's all part of the learning experience.  LOL.  I've had a total of six more falls, and several close calls.  I'd have to say that there is a three way tie for first place for my worst fall.  The other three weren't that bad ( two were an equipment malfunction...saddle slipped, the other I landed on my feet when the horse did a rollback out from under me...did I mention I ride Dressage?)

So, the three way tie...   First one:  Riding Traveler, and old, sway-backed, retired Amish cart horse, on the lunge line.  I was working on my rising trot (posting trot, for those not at Meredith Manor) and Traveler kinda stumbled a bit.  When he brought his head up to keep his balance, he knocked me in the face with his neck.  I lost my balance and was trying not to sit down on him too hard (sway backed).  Didn't work.  He didn't like it, so he popped his butt up in the air and I took a short flying lesson...landing on my back with one arm on the lunge line.  I had a bruise on the back of my arm the size of a 3 X 5 card, and a sore back for a couple of days.  

Second one:  Riding Lilly, a Belgin Draft who had better get her own way.  It was my second time on her.  The warm up went ok.  Then my instructor asked us to trot.  Lilly didn't like that so she took off in a canter.  Just like everything else about Lilly (except for her name) it was HUGE!  I got bounced out of my saddle to the point of sitting half on the pommel/ half on her neck.  I was trying to push myself off her neck, but her thick, silky, long mane wouldn't let me.  So, Lilly decided to put on the breaks.  Again, flying lesson, landing on belly this time.  Then, when I pushed my self up, I sat back on my heels...and... I forgot I had spurs on.  Oops.

Third:  Riding Lady Ace of Hearts, a reigner in training.  I was riding for one of the teaching students.  She was teaching Spins.  I ride Dressage, so I thought it would be a good experience to learn to ride some of the Western movements.  Lesson was going fine (considering there was a jumping lesson going on at the same time).  The jumping lesson was finished and they were leaving.  First horse got spooked by something outside, stated backing up, bumped into the second and kicked it.  Second horse rears.  The horse I'm on just stands there.  Where's the bad part you ask?  Well, about 15 seconds AFTER the gate closed, which was about 30 seconds AFTER this whole kicking/rearing thing finished, my horse decides that she needs to be scared and does a roll back out from under me.  I landed on the small of my back.  I couldn't ride for three days, nor could I stand up straight for about five days.  Also had a bruise the size of an orange on the inside of my knee.  Someone said that first I landed on my back, then I bounced, then landed on my side, smacking my knees together.

I was pretty sore after all three of them, especially after sitting back on my spurs...LOL!  It has been a while since I have fallen/been thrown, but I guess that since I have written this, I will probably fall off sometime in the next week or so.  I'll let ya know if it's a bad one.

Oh...and I just remembered (cause I sneezed)....I'm also dealing with allergies and a small head cold.  I feel like I'm being stabbed in two different places every time I sneeze or cough....Thank you Nancy and Sassy.

The fall of 2009 was pretty bad. It was Sooo Cold!