You are so helpful to a young rider like me! You are so inspiring and I hope I can be an amazing Equestrian like you!

my worst fall was off my new thoroughbred that looks like Joey and he refused the water jump and backed up and reared and I fell I got really winded and the pole cut my arm not that badly though I got up and back on and jumped every thing but the water jump and my trainer got on him to go over it and he nearly throw her off but got him over eventually but he is only 6. you are amazing and give me so much confidence to keep me riding without you I mite not have got as far as I have since that fall we have jumped 2,6 aka 76 cm I think. So thank you so much. Edit: I have neverd had a like on. a comment

Well done Esme! Always important to talk about safety and falls! X

I definitely find doing things until they're boring a great way to gain back confidence! I lost so much confidence a few months ago and found trotting terrifying at times, after a few months of going back to basics I'm almost looking for ways to go faster! :)

I’m glad that you are so responsible! So many riders don’t take the precautions and get injured, thank you so much for spreading the word!

I had so many falls and the worst one I had was when I got my head I was out of a moth because got a concussion the horse that I was riding he started troting and he threw me off and in 2022 I had a bad fall at special Olympics USA games he got scared and he threw me off I lost my confidence but after getting back on I had a fun time after they game me another horse how was much calmer in the show I been working on getting my confidence really good I am a new subscriber from New Jersey ❤

Wow… hearing Esme talk about Joey’s behavior when he was younger and how it knocked her confidence honestly makes me feel better about my recent confidence knocks. The situation is even similar. I have a young horse (just turned five this month) who can be… spicy. He does have a tendency to buck going into the canter and when another horse canters past him. I really got in a little over my head getting such a young horse with so little experience (been riding for three years and I got him about a year and a half ago) but I love him and wouldn’t trade him for the world. And we’ve been making some progress recently so fewer bucks. *insert celebration here*

I had a rotational fall in August 2020, it took almost 2 years before I stopped being nervous, hyperventilating and being scared and started enjoying jumping again!

I love listening to your pod casts when I’m on a long run it’s just so calming x❤

Like Charles Owens was for you I think you made me realise how bad my fall a few weeks ago actually was. At the time I shrugged it off after . But I now realise how much worse it could have been, I hit a metal jump stand head first and cut my leg on the bottom part of the wing . Luckily I was wearing a body protector and helmet so I avoided serious injury but was quite sore the day after with some bruising . Thank you Esme

Hi Esme, I love your channel so much! I hope your okay from your fall! It must of been hard to get your confidence back.❤🫶🏽

Your the best KZfaqr and you have always brightened my day! TYSm for being there when I’m sad, you always make me happy and make me laugh and Joey gives me the horsey giggles! Tysm your amazing :)

I also follow Friesian Horses channel and Yvonne's fall last year was so scary which brought to light the importance of buying a good helmet. So yes don't scrimp on a helmet, buy the best you can.

Thank you for such an i forming vidéo on safety with horses! I hope that the horses and you are well! I recently started loaning a pony called Polo from a friend and had my first fall today! My hat is crushed but I needed an excuse to get your own ThisEsme hat! 😂

We loved this weeks podcast, it's so important to talk about rider safety and to make sure we are all keeping ourselves protected while enjpying our horses. The best riding equipment is correctly fitting equipment!

Thank you for being so inspiring!! Love you, your videos and of course all your animals! ❤

I was retraining a ‘brumby’ in Australia we call them that. But fully agree she near killed me but you get back on even if you’re hurt, or scared, or even thinking not worth it. BUT you never have too, you always have the option. But If you don’t get back on it, it near ruins your confidence. You’re putting out such a positive message for younger horse riders, regardless of what will or is going to happen. Huge respect ❤️ much love

I love how she makes sure she lets everyone know to try stay on but she doesn’t make it anyone want to give up riding!

Well we all fall and I think it makes you a better rider xx can't wait to watch ❤️❤️❤️

So inspiring! My funniest fall is, I was hacking on my friends pony and I had my body protector over my coat and it must’ve been loose because a tree branch got caught in my body protector and I just hung there for a few minuets! The pony I was riding freaked out and ran and the look of confusion on his face I don’t think I’ll ever forget it! Funny story for the dinner table tho 😂

Esme you are such an inspiration to everyone, your skills and your love for horses is amazing! You can do anything ❤❤

Oh no Esme! I Hope your okay! You inspire so many young equestrians so be proud!! 🩵🤍

I was riding my horse with my friend and she was on her horse. Her horse did the most car engine fart like it sounded like an aeroplane taking off, me and my horse were cantering and he spooked and bucked up. I ended up flying off and lying next to the wall. The funny thing is that my horse was supposed to be the safe brave one 😅my friends horse is the naughty scared pony! ❤❤❤

You are so inspiring I am a hunter jumper and I have been riding for 3 years and when ever I had a fall or was struggling with confidence I would watch you and you inspired me🤍🤍🤍

Hi i am huge fan my worse horse fall is when i was little and they put me on race horse. So i was trying to ride a race horse and his gas were like gallop to me because i was little and he is race horse and we were doing jumping and he was so fast that i lose his bridle and he jump i feel so bad for losing his bridel and it’s was so pain 😂😂 i love your videos and horses❤❤You are my idol and i hope we meet one day at some compatision ❤❤

I remember once someone in my lesson forgot to do up her girth and when she had our first group canter the saddle slipped onto the ponys tummy and she was under him! The stirrups obviously came away and she plonked onto the floor and it was a tiny pony so she was ok but was a bit scared of falling again, so my instructor said well, im the same thing here, the only thing ill be kissing this summer is the sand 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Luckily the pony was a good boy 😇 and stepped over her but I'm glad she had a good time jumping after ❤ The person was absolutely fine and got back on and jumped great 👍😃❤

I love listening to these while cleaning tack 💗, my funniest fall is probably once when I was hacking and there was a little log on the ground that I decided to jump, I jumped it fine but I forgot to duck after for an overhanging branch and I got whacked across the head and ended up clinging on to my horses bum before sliding off 😂😂

Hey Esme! i love your shirt! Also, my worst fall was when i got bucked off because my horse reacted to my his horse neighbour cantering and rearing around his paddock, so obviously Toffee (my horse) had to copy. I fell and landed on my wrist 😅😅 what a lovely day. 😂 so i ended up in minor injuries, and then i got bucked off twice today for no reason 😊😂😂 Btw, you are so inspiring! Love you ❤

Esme, you are such an inspiration for so many of us! I love your videos and I know so many others love too❤

Happy Sunday to you and your family Esme hope you having a loving relaxing and staying cool hydrated and enjoying the sunshine xoxo 😚 🐴🏝️🩵🩵🏝️🐴🌞🌞💛🐴🏝️🩵🩵🩵🏝️🐴💛💛🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🏝️🐴🐴🌞🌞🌞💛🏝️🩵🩵🩵🩵🐴🐴💛💛🐴🏝️🏝️🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🐴🌞🌞💛🐴🩵🩵🏝️💛🌞🌞💛

Esme! It would be so much fun to do a sort of fall stories or equestrian stories from the people who watch/listen to the podcast episode! I have a fall story that I would say is quite interesting❤ it would be a great episode! Also, i love the podcasts❤❤❤❤

loved this esme well done for soeaking out about this ik it can be hard to share things like falls xxx

INCREDIBLE BEST PODCAST! I feel so relaxing and happy and wonderful every time and I feel like I am there with you always 🐴🩵🩵🐴🌞💛🌞🏝️🩵🩵🩵🐴🌞💛💛💛🌞🏝️🐴🩵🩵🩵🐴🏝️🌞💛💛🏝️🐴🩵🩵🩵🏝️💛💛🏝️🐴🩵🩵🩵🏝️🌞💛💛🌞🐴🩵🩵🩵🩵🐴🏝️🌞🌞💛🏝️🏝️🐴🐴🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🏝️🌞💛💛

Your video helped me so much because I struggle with similar things with my horse. We have figured it out but it makes me feel better it happens to other people to.

100th like!!! ❤❤❤ so excited I fell off in January and Esme got my confidence back so fast such an amazing person

You are so inspiring to me! And I hope when I’m older that I can be just like you just never give up

I live in Florida and at the end of May this year a just turned 16 year old young woman competing in an equestrian event finished a jump and two strides later the horse started to fall and his body fell on the young rider's head. She died very soon after. Good horse and good rider. Quite tragic.

Can’t wait to watch x love your content x

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So excited to watch this! I cant WAIT to meet you at redpost in August!

Can't wait to listen to this

Love ur stories and you learn so much as a ridder and plus and it is different everyday and learn so much never gets old and plus and horses are just most amazing creatures 💛🏝️🩵🏝️💛🌞🐴🐴🌞💛💛🏝️🩵🩵🌞🌞🌞💛🌞💛🏝️🩵🩵🩵🏝️💛🌞🌞🌞🏝️🩵🩵🏝️🏝️💛💛💛💛🏝️🩵🩵🏝️💛🌞🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴🐴💛🩵🏝️🌞

I hope your feeling better❤

You are so kind and talented❤

Keep up the great work esme. You are a inspiration to me and my riding. In fact ur the one that got me into horses and now I have lessons weekly. One story is I had a fall in one of my first lessons, and laughed it off, thanks to you, and telling everyone I was one bit to becoming a real rider!!! It was so funny. I got back on afterwords . 😂😂😂😅

Every year there is this big trail ride event that we go to. Last year I went with my dad and family friend. My dad and I borrowed horses, and our family friend (that I’ll call Abby) took her own horse. When we were tacking up we realized that we grabbed the wrong girth for my dads horse. My dad tried tightening it up as much as he could before we went off on the trail. The first bit of the trail went really well until we decided we wanted to have a little gallop. Abby was in front of me and my dad was behind me, so I was in the middle. We had a nice gallop for about 3 seconds before MY SADDLE STARTED SLIPPING OFF! I tried slowing my horse down but I was panicking so she wasn’t slowing down. I decided to jump off and grab the reins of my horse. Luckily, my horse stopped when I jumped off, but then I see my dad gallop past me (he was behind me the whole time). His saddle slipped off the right side and he just falls straight off. His foot got caught in the stirrup, but his horse did stop so he didn’t get dragged. Abby was way ahead of us and came back to see us both on the ground. She got off her horse and helped us put the saddles back up. We were all fine so we got back on and just walked for the rest of the ride 😬. love you, Esme ❤❤❤

I love your podcasts! Remember to put a window in Joey’s stable! ❤

Well done esme!it would prob take some forcing to get me back into the saddle if that was me!I'll prob fall tomorrow on cross country for the first time with my spooky pony Pepsi!Well done Esme!!❤❤

Can’t wait to watch esme! I love your vids

Your so inspirational!!!❤❤

I love your podcasts so much! I listen to them when I poo pick which makes it so much more interesting!

I totally understand dealing with young horses can be stressful and tough but the reward is great! I was riding this five year old for a while and he has been under saddle for almost a full year, when I started riding him at canter he would buckle and kick at the start then every few strides would kick and but his head down. He is finally getting over it but it sure didn’t help my confidence or want to ride him any. I am so glad that you are more confident on Joey now!❤

Hey esme I know this is a bit late sorry , I really am loving these podcast videos they are so interesting but relaxing and yes please do an updated jumping video because I really love them and Ik everyone else does too. Can’t wait for the next video ❤❤xx

My most recent fall: I was learning components of a dressage test and my horse wanted to run out. I didn’t catch her quick enough with my leg and she ran over a small crossrail and then dumped me close to the other jump 😂😅

i love watching your videos, they’re amazing. i’ve been watching since you started and you reallly helped inspire me into horses. i started watching you when i wasn’t even horse riding, and i still watch you now and i jump 80 cm courses competetively and 110 cm singly. i love you esme 🫶

Your such an amazing rider it’s amazing how much I have learnt from you

My most recent fall almost didn’t count as a fall, we were doing bareback challenges and I was riding backwards, one of the horses got to close and my horse leaped. I fell but landed it lol. Love you esme 💜

You are so inspiring and brave esme. Ur the best

Well done Esme always important to talk about safety and fails xoxo 😚 💛🩵🩵💛🐴🐴🐴💛🏝️🩵🩵🏝️🐴🐴🐴💛🩵🩵🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🩵🏝️💛🐴🐴🐴💛🏝️🏝️🩵🩵💛🐴🐴🐴🏝️🏝️🩵🩵🩵💛🐴🐴🐴💛🏝️

I live in the US but I’m in love with my Charles Owen helmet I went helmet shopping with my grandmother and it was very recommended I was pricy and I asked my grandmother why she bought it and she said “I will never be cheap when it comes to your safety” and then the lesson after I bought it my horse bucked me off😂

I loveee it !

I fell of a horse yesterday and I bent my bones it's really sore but I love your vida

I fell strait on my back over this weekend, my horse (capo) spooked at a horse cantering behind him. Him being an ex racehorse he wanted to run and I was not expecting that, I feel strait on my back

There was this one time where I was galloping in a field, and I was on the Shetland pony, and she stopped to get the grass and I fell over her head. My feet were stuck so my friend had to get my feet out😂😂😂

I find you an incredible idol and someone to look up to I don’t ride horses but I ride donkeys and I find your podcast as inspiration

A few weeks ago a horse I was riding named Amir spooked into the center of the arena because of a lizard and I fell straight off super fast and had a couple of bruises and scrapes

I remember that episode. That was when I found out the difference in safety standards between the UK and the United States. If I was to purchase a helmet (don't ride anymore) I would try to purchase one from the UK. I ride western so low and infrequent jumps. Helmets are very infrequently worn.

Well done Esme! Always important to talk about safety and falls! and hope ur ok lol

Eeep im so excited to watch 😊😊

Love you esme!

Love your videos and your podcast it is amazing 🤩

That’s how my first fall went. I thought it was going to be a normal ride with a horse I was taking care of for another rider my coach was out of town. (She was always at the barn with me if I was riding) the horse I was riding had a bit of an attitude and loved to show it. (He bucks runs all of the things) and he was extra excited that day for some reason. (Mind you we had some traumatic stuff happen while my coach was gone so I was on edge) he bucked I fell off and I would have never thought this ride would had ended in the E.R. He is still one of my favorite horses to be around since he is a goofball at times! I’ve said this before but your videos helped so much and still do help with my confidence. I haven’t gotten back on him yet but I’m hoping to be back on him soon!

I love Esme videos

I would love one of those videos of other falls. I have a great one 😂 I was walking around in the lesson arena on an icy day (I shouldn’t have gone to the lesson as it was rly icy) the horse then spooked at a horse bucking in the field I then fell straight into an icy puddle and cracked all the way through with icy water all over me !!!!!!

Funny fall When I was 4 I was on a 14.2 horse and were halfway out of the arena at the back door of the arena and the horse reared up and I ripped mine half chaps on the only stick there was

This was so inspiring! Also, I have a funny horse riding fail: so I was riding a small pony at my old barn. We were trotting over a bounce jump (it was a cross rail) and everything was going fine. Then all of the sudden, the pony I was riding decided to refuse and I did a front flip over his neck, and I landed on the jump! Later, my instructor looked at the pole on the jump, and I had cracked it! It wasn’t that far to fall, though so I wasn’t hurt!

I love your videos!!!

I am so proud of you for getting back up and facing ur fears and getting back to ridding that is so scary and terrifying moment xoxo 😚 🏝️💛🩵🩵🏝️🐴🌞🐴🐴💛🩵🩵🩵🩵💛🐴🐴🌞🐴🏝️🩵🩵🩵🏝️🌞🌞🌞🐴💛🩵🩵🩵💛🐴🐴🌞🌞🌞🐴🏝️🩵🩵🩵💛🐴🌞🌞🏝️🩵🩵🩵💛🐴🌞🌞🐴🏝️🩵🩵🩵🏝️🐴

LOVE YOU THIS ESME U R SOOOO NICE I LEARNT EVERYTHING FROM U I RECCONEND TO ANYONE THAT IS A BEGGINER X LOVE YA X

Esme you are one of the people that I look up to the most in the horsey community.❤Does anyone know about any good and safe riding helmet brand Other then Charles Owen because I recently cut my hair and my helmet is a little loose on my head.😊 thanks for sharing your story’s Esme ❤

This is my fall story, So I'm at a pony club ride and the horse Infront goes to canter, my horse follows cantering, horse Infront bucks and the horse I'm riding puts its head down and I ripple over 😂❤❤

I have a little information about your pooping in the water story. Because of the water they need to loosen their back muscles more to step over the water, which makes it easier to poo. Which would also explain joey pooing in your instructors arena. Riding outside is a little more tense, when he relaxes he gets more room to do it! Might not be the case here, but thought it was interesting nonetheless 😄

OMGGGGGGGGG ESMÉE I LOVE YOUR VIDSSSSSS ❤❤❤ 🎉 🎉 🎉

Hay I love all you horses

Hi Esme, I’m a huge fan! I have a funny falling off story, it was my first (and second) time falling off! I was riding a cheeky Norwegian Fjord Shetland pony cross in my lesson (that’s the first problem), so when I asked him to canter (I was still learning and really bouncy) and after a few strides he thrust his head down and I did a front flip off, being an unbalanced beginner at cantering! I was fine, and my mom got a video of it! 😂 Then I got back on right away and tried it again, only to have his strong neck pull me off the same way again! After that my instructor got on and tried, and he managed to unseat her the same way again, TWICE! 🤣 Then she taught that naughty pony that he can’t do that. But I stilled loved him!❤ The next week I did a show on him and won a 6th and 4th! He was fine at cantering after that I’m pretty sure, this was 2 years ago! That’s my funny fall-off story!

Hii Esme!! ❤❤❤

Yeah during falls we don’t always do things we should, adrenaline and other things. Glad you are okay though and recovered well.

Good video 📷

My pony galloped up a hill on cross country and stopped and the moment I fell of was when he spooked at a butterfly

I remember watching a vid from a while ago when it happened, hope you ok now!! 💖💖💕💕🫶🏻

I think sometimes we forget how dangerous this sport is. I broke 3 ribs after falling from a 13.2/3hh pony when I was younger, I was at a riding camp at my lesson barn and I was still pretty new to cantering of the lunge, basically I lost my balance and went out the side, the pony being well behaved stopped immediately which actually made the fall worse but I was proud of him. It took 2 weeks before I got an X-ray, I continued to do weekly lessons for those 2 weeks and then took a break to heal. I was on and off painkillers because I genuinely didn’t think I needed them up until we started training for cross country at school and I was in pain for well over an hour, I went to sick bay during break and had to go home for an x-ray. That was my worst fall to date but I was pretty lucky in the fact that I wasn’t too shaken up mentally from it.

Hi Esme! So i once went on holiday and went to go see my friend! We went riding but it started pouring with rain so we waited till it cleared up! So it was sunny for like 10 mins so we quickly ran to get the horses! When we went to get the saddles the tack room was locked😆 So we rode bare back! Now the gelding i was riding wanted some grass now of course he just bends down and starts eating! i went Straight over his head and landed on my butt🤣 We both COULD NOT stop laughing!! Love your vids Esme!!

Omg I hope you where alright!

My funny fall is this one time when I was at my riding lesson and I was holding these plastic cups with water in it because I was working on my elbows and my pony shook and I fell off, spilled the water all over me and my pony,it was really funny 😆

WE ALWAYS GET BACK UP ON THE HORSE ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Very good advice, Esme, re helmets and safety :) FYI, I don't know if you follow any other equine people on KZfaq but Holly Lenahan, who is also a show jumper, has a really big younger horse, Dali, 17.2, homebred, that at 7 has finally finished growing and is a little slower than his brother (maybe more Joey's size) and she has been working on rideability with him using poles and varying strides: e.g. 2/2/2 strides and then switching to 3/3/3 and then 2/3/3 and then 3/2/3 and so on to help with adjustability when jumping a course (she got the exercises off a well-known rider, I just can't remember who right now). Also, her older boy, Khal, is an amazing jumper working toward Grand Prix and she describes him like you do with Joey as a little lazy, so she switched his food to a race horse brand that will give him more stamina during a course, but not make him hot generally. Anyway, some things to consider for you and Joey. FALLING STORY: When I was a really young (and very foolish) rider I was riding a pony without a saddle or a helmet and riding with friends, one with a full-size horse around the outside of a corn field. The bottom corner was very down hill and surrounded by a huge mud puddle. As we raced around the corner, I lost my balance and was laughing falling off, until I looked up and saw my friend's full-size horse jumping over me. He slipped in the mud and one of his feet came down on my thigh. (To this day, I remember how grateful I was it wasn't my head!) I went from laughing to terrified to a massive amount of pain and covered in thick mud. My friend knew I was in pain and tried to distract me by saying that she hoped our washing machine was working. It sounds really stupid (all of it) now, but her "joke" annoyed me so much, that I jumped back up on my pony and took off back for home. My leg was black and blue and then yellow for about a month. It was my thigh, and luckily not broken. And I had to be careful when changing or bathing that no one in my family saw my incredibly bruise leg because I probably would have been forbidden from riding because of it. And while I may have deserved being banned for being so stupid, I did not want to give up riding. I don't think I've ever told anyone this story and haven't thought about in 5 decades (my excuse, as we didn't hear about safety as much way back then). Anyway, that was my smarten up and wear a helmet riding story. Love your podcast and your videos :)

That is Super advice

Love you my BBFL and my family Esme and I appreciate you so much all the hard work and devotion and you are absolutely so gifted miracle and so amazing inspiring role model and couldn’t imagine my life with you and LUV U and so special unique and best horse rider in the world xoxo 😚 🏝️💛🩵💛💛🏝️🐴🐴🐴💛🩵🩵💛🌞🌞🐴💛🩵🩵💛🌞🐴🏝️💛🩵🩵🩵🩵💛🐴🌞🌞🌞🐴🏝️💛🩵🩵🩵💛🐴🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🐴💛🩵🩵🏝️🐴🐴🌞🐴🏝️🩵🩵🩵🌞🌞

Early! Love you Esme!

A fall I had was with a pony I was leasing. It was at a show and the mares name was Carolina and she was very sneaky and naughty. She was to smart and loved to fun out and drop her shoulder whenever she wanted. We where at an eventing comp and we where stating our XC run and at the 3 jump which was a ditch she spooked, dropped her shoulder and left me there, she started trotting of in the other direction with her head held high like she was proud. I got back on and finished the course with no problems as I was kid and fearless then so I just went on and cantered to the next jump.😂 We did schooling after and she was perfect even for the big jumps we where doing for practice. I loved her but sometimes she definitely was a little bratty. 😅