The Short Fall: Falling from the Falsemount

If you are going to spend any time on horseback one thing is guaranteed:  at some point you will fall off.  This is inevitable, and most horse-wisdom agrees that you must eat dirt a minimum number of times before you're considered a rider.  One way to make this inevitability less traumatic, both physically and mentally,…

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Defending from the Mount

The second checklist item in the Swordplay from the Falsemount section is: Demonstrate proper defences and counter-attacks to all attacks from in-front on the far and near side. In this section we are looking for the ability to deal with descending, rising, and horizontal attacks on either side of the horse, performing core defences of…

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