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Keith Wheelock's avatar

Pat The last time I rode was in the Chilean cordilleras in 1968. Fortunately I had a wooden Spanish stirrup. When the horse fell on a mountain path, I was able to extract my leg before hitting the ground. The huasos (Chilean cowboys) thought this was hilarious. It got me several free rounds of pisco sours.

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I was a jr. in high school. Training for the Olympics. Pretty funny joke as no one came close. I’m thinking bareback for you. In the water just hold on to the tail. You will be fine having recent riding experience. Really easy to get off bareback too. Left or right works best. Don’t worry Amphibious is 16 hands a good deep water horse.

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Pat I’ll check with Ester Williams films. She swam with Red Skelton and, I believe, Groucho Marx. Perhaps she’ll display a technique for swimming with horses.

Training for the Olympics!!!! My initial mother in law was in the 1924 Olympics in Paris—first time the gals were permitted to sweat with the guys.

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Every high school distance runner in coastal Oregon in 1968 was training for the Olympics. I told Steve Prefontaine that I would see him in Mexico. He laughed. Not even the great Pre was good enough yet. He did however enjoy running away from us backwards. We did win our district championship and continue to train for the Olympics albeit we had to focus on the 72 Olympics. I have been too busy to train for the Olympics since I turned 70.

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Pat Just as well that you didn’t go to the 1972 Olympics with the terrorist killing of the Israeli athletes.

There was a college swimming event for which my fluid brother could easily have qualified. It was called something like the SURUPT. The trick was to stay under water the longest. The winner, in one event, had to be rescued from the bottom of the pool, where he had passed out dead drunk.

I believe that the SURUPT has been scratched. Doesn’t bother me, because I only have a single beer at dinner.

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I’m sure Keith if we had known about the event we would have tried it. As it was I had to give up on Munich as I had a shotgun wedding with Uncle Sam. I did get in some swimming in the South China Sea.

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