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Location: MD | This all started from some tacky little Facebook group and a "lady"(using this word loosely) talking about a steinhoff's picture. It's tasteless and ridiculous and it makes me sad that a group of people blindly follow this person for her behavior. |
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Location: Driving, Grooming, or Saddling for a Kid! | The same way people argue over politics but arent politicians |
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Location: Kentucky | I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Murphy - 2015-08-05 7:39 AM I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel.
It's not a good thing, but it happens. Sometimes habitually, sometimes just because you get popped up by a strong, hard-running horse in a bad moment. I do wish pics of winning riders doing it and being glorified for it would go away because it encourages kids to imitate it rather than learn to kick correctly from the knee down. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 8:30 AM Murphy - 2015-08-05 7:39 AM I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel. It's not a good thing, but it happens. Sometimes habitually, sometimes just because you get popped up by a strong, hard-running horse in a bad moment. I do wish pics of winning riders doing it and being glorified for it would go away because it encourages kids to imitate it rather than learn to kick correctly from the knee down.
I've never seen Sherry do it.... |
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Location: Midwest | Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 8:30 AM Murphy - 2015-08-05 7:39 AM I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel. It's not a good thing, but it happens. Sometimes habitually, sometimes just because you get popped up by a strong, hard-running horse in a bad moment. I do wish pics of winning riders doing it and being glorified for it would go away because it encourages kids to imitate it rather than learn to kick correctly from the knee down.
I think a lot of the time, the pictures like that are the result of being popped up when a strong horse lunges, or being "up" in the saddle and kicking home. Of course others have a rougher style too.
It doesn't usually look dramatic on the video and they often aren't slamming on the horse, it just looks weird in a still.
Of course some riders are all over the place, but that's in every discipline. |
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| Everyone of us has been popped up in a run. Some of us are lucky enough that it wasnt caught on video or captured in a photo. This "starfishing" was first after the Steinhoff girls and it was horrible cyber bullying. It is so disgusting that these kids/adults get away with his behavior because it hurt my feelings and i wasnt even the one being attacked.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Let me see if I can get this pic to post. This is my very own "baby-starfish" pic from a high school rodeo.  I don't know why I did it here, turning a barrel of all places, because it wasn't usual for me, but it happened. If you looked hard enough, and screen shotted some vids, I imagine most people have had a moment.  I don't like seeing those type pics held up as "good riding" because they're not, but public ridicule isn't the right thing to do either.
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Try not to laugh too hard at my colored rockies. That was 1992. Dang, I'm old. |
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Location: Kansas | Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 9:01 AM
Try not to laugh too hard at my colored rockies. That was 1992. Dang, I'm old.
whats that fleece thing over your horses nose? I've seen alot, kind of like them!!!! |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | hoofs_in_motion - 2015-08-05 8:08 AM
Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 9:01 AM
Try not to laugh too hard at my colored rockies. That was 1992. Dang, I'm old.
whats that fleece thing over your horses nose? I've seen alot, kind of like them!!!!
It is a shadow roll. |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2015-08-05 10:08 AM Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 9:01 AM Try not to laugh too hard at my colored rockies. That was 1992. Dang, I'm old. whats that fleece thing over your horses nose? I've seen alot, kind of like them!!!!
lol i call it a shawdow roll but.. love the color jeans love rockies
i think its got blown way out of portion
people have always talked let it roll off just small minded but she is right a lot of young girl think it a good think to jump up and down
the need to get down on all 4 and have a little kid get on their back and jump up and down
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Location: Deep South | rachellyn80 - 2015-08-05 8:42 AM
Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 8:30 AM Murphy - 2015-08-05 7:39 AM I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel. It's not a good thing, but it happens. Sometimes habitually, sometimes just because you get popped up by a strong, hard-running horse in a bad moment. I do wish pics of winning riders doing it and being glorified for it would go away because it encourages kids to imitate it rather than learn to kick correctly from the knee down.
We have ALL done this, whether or not a photographer caught it on camera during the snap second you may have gotten out of position.
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Location: Beggs, OK | BamaCanChaser - 2015-08-05 9:17 AM rachellyn80 - 2015-08-05 8:42 AM Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 8:30 AM Murphy - 2015-08-05 7:39 AM I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel. It's not a good thing, but it happens. Sometimes habitually, sometimes just because you get popped up by a strong, hard-running horse in a bad moment. I do wish pics of winning riders doing it and being glorified for it would go away because it encourages kids to imitate it rather than learn to kick correctly from the knee down. We have ALL done this, whether or not a photographer caught it on camera during the snap second you may have gotten out of position.
That top picture is Brittany. The picture of Sherry is a bit different than the ones that have been posted. She might have left the saddle 3" and she sure as hell doesn't kick the air out of one. |
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| rachellyn80 - 2015-08-05 9:20 AM
BamaCanChaser - 2015-08-05 9:17 AM rachellyn80 - 2015-08-05 8:42 AM Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 8:30 AM Murphy - 2015-08-05 7:39 AM I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel. It's not a good thing, but it happens. Sometimes habitually, sometimes just because you get popped up by a strong, hard-running horse in a bad moment. I do wish pics of winning riders doing it and being glorified for it would go away because it encourages kids to imitate it rather than learn to kick correctly from the knee down. We have ALL done this, whether or not a photographer caught it on camera during the snap second you may have gotten out of position.
Her legs are just as far off stingray as the others pictures...
NO ONE is bashing Sherry, we're saying every single person has a picture. I've done it where I losen my leg coming off a barrel to kick, midjudge where there stride is and it pops me right out of the saddle in kicking position. Even though my legs actually never follow through with the kick. Its bad timing...
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| Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 9:01 AM
Try not to laugh too hard at my colored rockies. That was 1992. Dang, I'm old.
hahaha, I had every color under the sun, I think even a pleather pair... 
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| The cyber bullying going on has gotten horrible, they steal photos of barrel racers and claim they're all animal abusers, and the newest thing is how horrible whipping is! I just stay off those pages, the people are ignorant and most of them are twelve year old girls wanting to start trouble. From the way they sound, they have no right to talk, some of them have probably ridden a horse three times in their life... Starfishing happens, the photos might look like they're gonna knock the wind out of them, but 90% of the people in the photos probably don't come down kicking as hard as they can, and really the NFR girls know what they're doing!! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | hoofs_in_motion - 2015-08-05 9:08 AM Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 9:01 AM Try not to laugh too hard at my colored rockies. That was 1992. Dang, I'm old. whats that fleece thing over your horses nose? I've seen alot, kind of like them!!!!
Yep, a shadow roll on a (gasp) steel noseband and a fairly tight tiedown with a barely there hackamore.  He won a ton for me and several others after me in that headgear. One of the most honest horses I've ever ridden. |
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Location: Deep South | rachellyn80 - 2015-08-05 9:20 AM
BamaCanChaser - 2015-08-05 9:17 AM rachellyn80 - 2015-08-05 8:42 AM Three 4 Luck - 2015-08-05 8:30 AM Murphy - 2015-08-05 7:39 AM I was always under the impression it wasn't a good thing? I'm 150 pounds and know it wouldn't feel too great slamming back down on my horse like that. But I'm not riding an NFR horse and I can't imagine the torque they have coming off a barrel. It's not a good thing, but it happens. Sometimes habitually, sometimes just because you get popped up by a strong, hard-running horse in a bad moment. I do wish pics of winning riders doing it and being glorified for it would go away because it encourages kids to imitate it rather than learn to kick correctly from the knee down. We have ALL done this, whether or not a photographer caught it on camera during the snap second you may have gotten out of position.
I'm aware the top pic is Brittany, that's why I named the attachment Sherry and Pozzi.
No, she is not out of position as bad or kicking as hard as some of the pictures that have been shared. My point was simply that it does happen to even the best. No one is perfect. Which is the whole reason behind the #stopthebullying campaign.
Their purpose is not necessarily to promote starfishing as a good thing, but to take a stand against the cyberbullies. |
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