(first world problems, i get it.. and a bit whiney - yeah, i get that too)

Ever watch a movie/series, and they have people "riding hard" and it always looks like they are sacks of taters lashed to a horse? I could ride better than these folks before I was 8-- because i learned to ride WITH the horse, rather than take a beating.

I mean, i could rant on about (non-fighter) pilots making abrupt control changes, or swimmers with sinking legs, but I am particularly irked by "heros" on horseback slamming into a saddle. My first mare wouldn't have taken that nonsense from anyone-- she'd have just stopped and/or thrown them

Not everyone can sit a saddle naturally.

Steve McQueen could, of course he was hell on wheels on a motorcycle, so probably a natural.

I was surprised as I watched Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained, a natural.

Now, want a good chuckle, watch big fat Marlon Brando bounce around in The Missouri Breaks, hahaha just watching it will rattle your fillings loose.


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There’s 2 types of people in the world: those who can get along with and ride a horse…and those who can’t

Wife never like watching some movies with me. Even Lawrence of Arabia has incorrect firearms. She was forever criticizing riders.

Grizz

I Lawrence of Arabia. Omar Shsrof really was tied to the camel.

This dates me but when I was a kid I shared a deer camp with an old man who was an old cavalry soldier. He was in his 80's and we had a semi-broke pony in camp he was determined to ride. Everyone but him thought this was a really bad idea. He rode him and took a lot of the rough off.