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Jamie wrote:

> side ;-) Or you could do like my husband does if he thinks he's coming off
> he jumps for the softest looking spot,says if he's coming off he can at
> least choose where lol
If I know I'm coming off -- if I'm badly unbalanced and the horse is
blowing up and it's just a matter of time until I'm dirt-surfing -- I
pick my time, do my emergency-dismount, and aim-to-roll.  While I call
this an emergency dismount, it's more like planned falling-off, just
fractions of a second before I would honestly be THROWN off.  I come
off the left side of the horse because that's the side I'm used to
coming off of and also the side where my body knows how to fall.  The
only reason it's a "dismount" is because I'm DECIDING to do it instead
of WAITING for it.

Truman (in another message) has good advice about the "roll into a
ball" thing.  Try to land on big parts of your body (shoulder, hip)
and not on an extended arm or foot or (heaven forbid) head.  As I say,
I can pick landings a lot better if I make the decision to come off
instead of waiting for the inevitable to just happen.

Jessica

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