ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: [endurance] Riding out a buck
Re: [endurance] Riding out a buck
LV2Ride77@aol.com
Sat, 6 Apr 1996 20:26:24 -0500
As far as I can tell, the best way to ride a buck is to let go of one arm and
lift it way up in the air and spur your horse!!! At least that's what they do
on TNN's Rodeo Shows!!!! :)
Of course I'm kidding...I think you are just LUCKY if you stay on, UNLUCKY if
you don't. Unless you train on a bucking horse, I don't think you can't be
sure if you will or won't get bucked off! I guess you need to find someway
to stop your horse from bucking. My horse is an American Saddlebred - - now
14 , five when I got her - - and has only bucked me off once. She stepped on
a stick on a gravel road and it stuck her in the belly and when I got up I
had a concussion, amnesia, and a broken collarbone! She hasn't bucked since.
I have gotten very good at staying on when she spooks though!! I have a TWH
who has bucked, but not very hard or high, easy to stay on (his neck). A
friend told me that horses that carry their heads lower are more apt to be
hard buckers, while my ASB has a naturally high head carriage, is not as
prone to bucking. Not sure if this is true. Sue C. & Fantasy Swan Song.~!~