I went to the ranch as usual this weekend. But an unfortunate event occurred, I fell off. This has happened many times before as does when you ride a lot bareback. This almost exact scenario has also happened before. My friend Andrea who took the picture often dares me to to do things my horse and I are not prepared for but we attempt it anyway for fun. Also when we are successful, it's fills my soul with happiness because Andrea is wrong and no one got hurt. In this case Andrea told me to do a jump, so I went at it cantering. Andrea swerved and I couldn't bring him back. Most of the time when I ride him, I only use a halter; So in situations like these I don't have enough power to yank him around. When he swerved I slipped right off into sand and partially landed on the block standard. To my surprise, Andrew stopped instead of getting excited and bucking away as usual. This also allowed me to not get dragged because as you can see, I'm still hanging onto the reins. In conclusion, I never made it over this jump on Andrew after multiple tries. I also believe I still have not learned my lesson. I will probably continue to challenge Andrea's dares and ultimately fail. This day was still fun and I didn't get hurt. But I do think Andrea's stomach hurt from laughing so hard.
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