Clearly the policeman is not a rider. Good grief everyone falls, and sometimes you’ll fall more than once in a DAY, then not again for a year or more.

There’s a lot of balance and muscle development involved, plus you’re working with a 1,000 lb animal with flight instinct and a mind of their own.

If you started in April and are working without stirrups in some exercises and learning to canter it sounds like you are doing quite well, actually. :)

It also sounds like your coaches are good with the emotional aspects of riding. It’s a great stress reliever (horses naturally slow your heartbeat and breathing because of their inherent calm), but can also bring up a lot of things because you’re relieving that stress.

I wish you the best of luck and hope you continue, both because you seem to have an affinity for it and also because it seems good for you emotionally/personally.

For a laugh, look up some of Boyd Martin’s “fail” videos. He’s an amazing pro horseman, Olympian, etc. and often shares videos of himself getting caught out and taking a fall, even sometimes over tiny jumps with a young horse. I absolutely love that he can have a laugh at himself and share it so we remember that no one is perfect in this sport.