Here is a truly amazing sport, Equestrian Vaulting. It is pretty much Gymnastics and Dance on horse back. It used to be a Olympic sport until for some odd reason they took it out. There are still many vaulting teams and events around the globe though.
This is a sport I would love, love, LOVE to try! It takes a lot of balance as you are preforming flips and twists on a moving horse!
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This sport would take a lot of trust between the horse and rider, one wrong move and to be honest... You would be dead or very broken.
Not any old horse can become a vaulting horse, the horses that are used have to have smooth and even paces, through walk to canter.
Vaulting in history has been used in circuses around the world.
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Vaulters perform various movements on the back of the horse. Novice and beginning vaulters may perform at the walk or the trot while higher level vaulters perform at the canter. There are a number of compulsory exercises and depending on class the vaulter perform seven or eight of them
This is quite an amazing sport that is quickly becoming more popular in Eastern USA.
We have a few clubs in New Zealand but it more popular over seas.
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