Breaking a leg

[Jim Garrett]

(11-20-2012 09:33 AM)JMadonna Wrote:  

(11-19-2012 07:32 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Just one question, Jim, about your having to have assistance to get back on the horse: Are you a skilled rider? Booth was, and he was also super-charged with adrenaline.

Depends upon which leg is broken. The leg Booth broke was the one that was used to mount the horse. Could he have put his full weight on that broken leg to hoist himself into the saddle of a very skittish horse and at the same time kick the other one at Johnny Peanuts? Adrenaline is no substitute for structural integrity.

For Laurie and Jerry:

I grew up riding horses. I stopped riding about at about 45 due to a serious neck injury. Until a few years ago, we usually had between 4 and six horses. We are now down to one. When mounting a horse, you put your left leg in the left stirrup, put all your weight onto that leg and push down on the left leg and swing your body and right leg up and onto the horse. I was kicked in the left shin about 4 inches above the ankle. I was lucky, the kicking horse did not have shoes on, because if it did, it would have probably broken my leg. As it was, it put a pretty good gash in my leg.

Dave brings up a very good comparison that I had not thought about with the preacher from Enon. Jerry also brings up adrenalin, another valid point.

However, the break suffered by JWB was in a location that if you were unseated from your horse, with your foot stuck in the stirrup, you could have a high probability of a very comparable injury.