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Thanks Shira

That's not true. Animals do things all the time due to conditioning and training. As well horses are whipped and pulled and kicked. They are not given a choice. It makes sense to train a animal to do a task. But it makes no sense to say Wow look They love it. They dont. They dont do it in the wild. And they dont do it willingly unless they are trained to.

Liz x x true in a way but what she meant was that the horses ears were not pinned down at all instead they were pricked forward the whole time and actually there are wild horse that DO jump in the wild it’s sort of their instinct

@@liz6595 Im sorry but are you telling my that I force a 1200 pound animal over a jump

J e s u s ChRiSt just like people, some horses like competition, if that horse didn’t want to do that, you would know. it’s ears would be pinned and it would be kicking. also horses are 1500 pound animals, having a little kick in the side doesn’t hurt. horses like that are litterally bred to compete, it’s in their blood. not competing like that can actually lead to depression. try riding yourself before you yap your opinions.

@@urmom-np4og so you can get into these horses heads and tell us what they like and don't like? You're another idiot jumper right?

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Praying Mantis hahaha that's a really funny joke

@@jackbarker8267 I agree 100%, glad to see another rider from Aussie, wishing the best of luck with ur jumping(sorry for the late reply)

Hoo man, this is a long one. Right. So as someone who’s ridden for over half my life, I feel it necessary to say something. On the point of an opponent being needed, I have a few questions. Does the opponent need to run interference? Then how do swimming and golf count? Or, to Praying Mantis, do you not count those as “sports”, since I’m using your personal definition and not the dictionary’s. On equestrians often not being 6’4” walls of muscle - so? Jockeys aren’t. Gymnasts aren’t. Normally, sprinters aren’t, as the unnecessary, in this case, muscle weighs you and, for equestrians, your horse down. Plenty of the riders I’ve meant are terrifying- and this wasn’t restricted to height. There’s a girl at my barn who rides an over 16 hand mare (basically she’s taller than most people at her withers) who’s utterly insane, tries to fight everyone, and will bolt the moment you drop the reigns. This - what? 5’4”? 5’6”? - lady rides this horse over 3’6” jumps without stirrups for practice, without a crop and with a soft fairly soft bit. This other guy and his twin are both around 6 foot, and they swap out riding their older gelding and a project five-year-old. We have a guy who’s at least 6’2” and was hit by a car but still came to ride the same day. Then his horse spooked, reared, and fell on him, but he ended up fine. I was recently thrown when my horse bolted; the trainer was having a class do stirrupless cantering. He’d almost bolted right rein, and I could feel him building up for maybe half of the ring on the left, but when I started to drop to the trot, he spooked bad and bolted into a bucking gallop. I held on for half the ring before jumping off because I would be more useful off of him. With how I was launched, I fell over seven feet at at least 30 miles per hour, probably more, but I was out of striking range, and that was a trade-off I was willing to make so I wouldn’t die from him spooking again and kicking me. I landed at an angle on the back of my right thigh as mangled to roll, limp to a wall, and get out of the way so someone could catch my horse or I could recover and help. After the shock had passed, someone had caught my horse (the same terrifying lady from earlier) and I managed to get back on, adrenaline obscuring the worst of the damage (and bleeding. It was a shallow cut on my upper arm, so at least it wasn’t a lot). I got back on, did some flatwork, both with and without stirrups, and then did a pole course, which I had a bit of trouble on because my leg had started to complain. Here’s the thing. If I had my stirrups, I know I could’ve stayed on, because I’ve done stuff like this with them. When I got off and tried to walk, I nearly fell on my face because my leg literally couldn’t hold my weight. I know because I tried several more times after I had put my horse in his stall (I dismounted maybe five steps away and on a wall, so I just leaned on that to get him there. He still had all his tack on but his bridle, which I had taken off). Someone passed me a broom to use as a crutch, but it was too short, so I made my own. It was also too short. A fellow rider helped me detack, and I went home, after which I was on crutches for three days and couldn’t ride for another for another four. I’d just gotten back and had been riding for a few days - my leg was still healing, but we were fine - gymnastics (line of multiple jumps set under four strides apart, our indoor ring is so small we could only fit bounces and one-striders) both over fences and poles. When someone was jumping, the other horses would go to the inside of the course. My horse was over the poles, and I let him has his mouth, as your supposed to over a gymnastic. He tried to turn too early, leading to his hind legs stalling and him freaking out. He bolted, and even with the indoor ring stunting his speed, I couldn’t perform an emergency turn with the other horses in the ring. I took the corner after the poles, managed to collect him a bit if not control and slow him down. Now understand: on the inside track, this guy can fit the entire line in one stride. He’s huge. He also has a habit of running people’s outside leg into the wall/fence as he got too close to the wall. He was angled to he would run me into the wall, pull me off, and trample and drag me to death if I didn’t A) do an emergency turn, likely leading to a fight between the horses in the middle of the ring, which would cause even more problems, B) get him to halt in three strides at most, which at this speed was impossible, or C) preform an emergency dismount to the outside (really freaking dangerous, but he had cut the corner enough the I might’ve been able to land properly.) I choose C, but I’m not sure how I timed it besides “fall as close to the horse as I can without being in the danger zone” because A) this all happened in under 5 seconds, and B) I hit my head in the fall. From what I can tell, I hit the wall with my lower back at an angle and whiplashed around it onto the concrete decider under the gate, skinning a lot of my face and some of my temple right under my helmet, along with a fairly deep and bloody cut on my chin. Something also was wrong with my wrist, as it was scratched and couldn’t grip properly. I don’t know what happened immediately (by which I mean maybe a second?) before and after the fall, as my vision went out; I’m not sure if I closed my eyes or hit my head too hard, but my vision went white, and I couldn’t hear anything right after I hit the ground. Even with my trainer helping me, it took me at least three minutes to move my lower body. You know when a limb falls asleep? Imagine that for your whole lower body, only replace the numbness with numbing pain. After 10 minutes, I was finally able to stand up, only for my vision to go black seconds later. My horse was fine, he had calmed down, and someone detacked him, I don’t know who, I was having enough trouble thinking straight. Anyway, I was back to riding two weeks later, admittedly less frequently, as I needed to rebuild my muscle mass. These aren’t even the worst cases I’ve seen, never mind the worse that happened. I have a friend who broke a rib when her horse kicked her, another whose horse broke her collarbone, but she isn’t sure how, she wasn’t even on him, and someone had had his nose broken when a pony kicked him in the face. Also, everyone I just mentioned (except the trainer and broken collarbone the broken collarbone lady) are low to high intermediate riders. These situations are much lower risk than what riders like Springsteen face. Besides the end getting slightly ranty, for which I apologize, this is another way of me saying that it would be pretty easy for the horse to fit your definition of “opponent,” despite most of these being an honest mistake on the part of the horse and the circumstances conspiring to make it hard on the rider. And it could’ve gone worse! There’s a girl who fell like my first one, and when she couldn’t control her fall, and broke something in her back, leading to her not being able to ride for at least six months. So please, do your research before you dismiss someone’s life’s work. TLDR: Horseback is hard, and I respect everyone who gives it their best shot, especially those of us who manage to make it to the higher levels. Horseback, in all its iterations, not just the versions in this comment, are all sports that take years to train for and hard work to improve. Also, there’s a reason why it’s considered one of the deadliest sports in the world. P.S. I used a lot of equestrian jargon and vocab in this, so if you don’t know what it means, ask! I can’t guarantee I’ll get back to you, and you can probably look most of this up, but if you can’t find it, I’m here, though it’s admittedly up to KZbin if I respond P.S.S Sorry if this came off as rude, this is something I feel strongly about, and I’ve had a long day, so if anything in here comes off as mean, I apologize. Also, these weren’t even my closest fall- or even horse-related brushes with death, so I have more material if anyone wants it! There’s a girl who broke her arm after her gelding pitched her into a wall and a horse who nearly stepped on my throat, for example. Okay bye!

Ur completely wrong they woke up together and everyone is kind to there horses

I think you mean the horse having talent.

Mister Sarajevo nope! It takes lots of skill from the rider. They both have great talent!

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Thanks so much Luz - I love this performance. So touching and graceful, her movements are perfectly coordinated with the music.