My Old Riding Raws (2009-2012) + 2 Falls! 

You could always trust Laura to tell it like it is! 😂 x

PonyCam Haha yeah I liked that 😊 Straight to the point! x

Sara M I've jumped bigger, but have never got it on camera, but to be honest I've never been very bothered about height, I'd rather focus on & improve my overall technique 😊

Naomi Candlesmith Welcome! Yes, all of these clips and my regular videos are taken at the same riding school/stables 😊

Actually it was the one and only time my body protector has been some use! It stopped me landing with my back directly on the sharp edge, so I barely even had any bruising :-)

There's only one rider in the video, who was trying her best.

@@PonyCam Oh, 😁awkward situation... 😂😂

lilyonline well done for trying again! Your very brave :3 I can't ride again, my injury hurt my body too much. Good luck!

That's so lovely to hear, good luck and I hope your riding goes smoothly from now on! :-)

SweetWaffles xx thankyou so much x

PonyCam thankyou :)

Its a fall, I am sure you wont die it. I have had a lot of falls, just get back on

omg that's so funny because there is a grey 14.1hh gelding at my riding school called Jay xD

PonyCam Toby is so cute!

PonyCam I

PONYS!

I have never seen jay how is she doing now

Hamilton and Horses Haha thank you 😅

I'm actually so jealous when I fall I just flop over and it looks bad but you're just like okay so we're doing this alright let's go

Actually it was one of the few times my body protector has come in handy. I landed right on my lower back on the edge of the jump, but the body protector spread the impact out and it didn't hurt at all 😊

Primrose14 16 I honestly loved riding all of them! Casey was the most difficult as she would sometimes be a bit mare-ish or put in a very dirty stop at a fence, but she also taught me an awful lot. Ted will always be my favourite because he's the first pony I rode at this yard and the one who I learnt the most/improved fastest on :-)

Mollie Reeves She was honestly one of my favourite instructors I've ever had! She was just very 'to the point' and didn't have time for anyone who wasn't taking the lesson seriously 😊

Because it's completely normal for all riders to have obvious flaws in their position when they are inexperienced and still learning - no one starts out riding like Charlotte Dujardin! :-) x

Ups it's a HE 😅

It's the same riding school, so yeah, we often do similar exercises over the years, only now I'm doing them with a better technique as I continue to learn in my lessons every week 😊

Brooke Harris 24 😊

Abby O Neill No they're all riding school ponies 😊

Ruta Kr. A few reasons: 1. There’s no need to. I’ve never based the level of my riding on how high I can jump, but rather, how much I have improved in terms of being able to ride more difficult horses successfully, and how much better I am at improving the horse I’m riding’s way of going in a lesson, compared to how I used to do it. 2. It’s a riding school, and one that it’s very careful of its horses legs (there are ponies who are still sound and going cross country schooling & jumping small showjumping courses into their late 20’s and early 30’s at this yard). The horses are often jumped several times a week, sometimes twice a day, so to jump ‘big’ would be incredibly unfair on them and risk their health much more than a privately owned horse that may only jump once or twice a week. 3. Connected to the above, if I owned my own horse I would almost certainly have tried jumping higher, but I don’t. I am only able to jump what is appropriate for the riding school horses & ponies, which I don’t mind at all as jumping any bigger is of much less interest to me now compared to when I was a teenager and assumed ‘bigger was better’. 4. A lot of people assume that because I have been riding a long time, I should have improved a lot more that it appears I have, but I ride for one hour a week in a riding school and can only do whichever exercises/jumps my instructor tells me to - improvement comes from repetition and if I were riding 5 times a week on my own horse I would improve a lot faster. If you learn the piano and only got to practice it once a week, you are never going to get to the same level as someone who buys their own piano and gets the practice whenever they want, playing whichever songs they choose, throughout the week/month/year. Sorry that was so long, but there’s a bit more to it than a single answer 😊

@@PonyCam now I understand! I'm thankful for your long and clear reply, some people would just ignore me. I hope you didn't take my question as offensive though, because I think you're a great rider and I really need to learn some stuff from you

Ruta Kr. Not at all, it’s a question I get asked quite a lot and I can definitely see why people ask it! 😊

xXKatherineMikaelsonXx 24yo

nature Lover122 The stables is based in Oxfordshire, UK. All the horses in this video belong to the riding school (there's only one rider in this video). Lessons are mixed age - in my current lesson the age range is from about 9yrs old to 60 😊

PonyCam oh cool because I'm from SA and I love horse ridding I don't know where I will be moving to in the Uk but I hope that u will be expected to the school if I apply and do you have a website?

Exuse me 1:28

Corinne Masterstar He's a pedigree Welsh Section B :-)

EllieEquestrian Yep Sam's a Sec B 😊

Lauren MD And Olivia MG SSOCV My leg was a bit long for some of the smaller ponies, but I only weighed between 105-112 pounds in these videos, so not too heavy :-)

Erica Bigras We are taught to have only the ball of our foot in the stirrup too. Unsurprising, as an inexperienced rider trying new exercises for the first time, my feet didn't always stay in the correct place!

PonyCam you have a good seat tho!

Thanks! Better now than it was in these clips! but to be honest I think my feet still end up through the stirrups half the time 😅

PonyCam if you want a trick, i used to do, and make my students, take irons/stirrups off the leathers, and ride with no stirrup and hold the stirrup on your feet. your legs become longer, stronger, your seat becomes deeper, and your heals are forced down, in order to keep the stirrup on your feet. :) its tough but helps tremendously.

L Private There are about 20 school horses/ponies, then about another 12 liveries x

GIANINA AVILES Jay and Casey are both mares :-)

PonyCam ok sorry

Your guess is as good as mine! No unfortunately I don't have my own horse, all the lovely horses/ponies featured in my videos belong to a riding school 😊

PonyCam okeey 😊

I was 12 :-)

PonyCam 12 Years you've been riding?! I've only been riding for 8 ❤

Wow thx for replying x

He was the ultimate pocket rocket, he would just ping over anything and everything!

PINGY PETS The first fall was just terrible riding, and the second one was my seventh attempt at getting her over the jump, and my legs were so tired that I just slid off 😂👍🏼

😂😂 love your videos expecially fails on head cam! 😂😂

Topzoe Jay and Toby have both sadly passed away since these videos were taken (they were both quite old), Sam went back to his owners as he was only at the yard for a year to be brought on, and Ted & Casey are still at the yard, but they’re both older now so I don’t ride them anymore :-)

PonyCam I am very sorry to hear that

PonyCam sam is a beautiful horse what breed is he

Topzoe Sam is a Welsh section B 😊

Not really (fortunately!). There were times when I'd be a bit worried if I'd had a bad ride the time before (fallen off, been bolted with, etc.), but because I always got straight back on when I fell off, or did the exercise again if it went wrong, even the bad rides ended on a positive note which meant my confidence was back up for the next lesson 😊

PonyCam ohhh that's good 👍

Raven Sam is pure Welsh section B 😊 Ted was actually a pretty nice little jumper, he was just struggling a lot to make the distances in the grid work clips, which is why he’s throwing his legs forward over them! x

Firstly, I disagree with you slightly, while I was not very good at giving with my hands (still something I struggle with today!), I always let the reins slip through if there was/is pressure from the horses mouth during the jump - it doesn't look pretty, but it stops the horse getting pulled if I get the jump wrong. Secondly, the most recent clip in this video is over 6 years old (which is why the title is 'old riding raws' and I put the dates on all of the clips) and I have improved a lot now I am an adult rider and have many more years experience :-)

Primrose14 16 I love them all, but Ted will always be my favourite 😊

PonyCam ahh he is very sweet