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Horse Riding Persuasive Speech

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Many people are under the impression that just because riding a horse does not involve humans running around and playing with a ball, makes horseback riding a non-sport. I am here to tell you that is not the case at all. There are many different types of sports and not all of them include balls, or nets, or goals, or even running.That is why I firmly believe that yes, horse riding is, in fact, a sport.
So that begs the question, what is a sport? Is it using a ball or scoring goals or running and kicking? Is it competing against others with the aim of winning a trophy, ribbon, or money? If a so-called sport does not include those things, does that make it not a sport? Here is my criteria for a sport: if it is in the Olympics, it is a sport. …show more content…

All of them take a lot of concentration and are physically tiring.

But you just sit there, you may be thinking; you just make the horse go and stop. All you’re doing is staying on top of the animal and telling it where to go and how fast, when to turn, when to jump, and so on. You’re not really doing anything. It’s not a sport. You don’t run around, or use balls, or score goals, or anything like that. That’s what the horse is doing, and you’re along for the ride. That means you’re not playing a sport.

And I see your point. I do not run around or score goals. But the thing is, I do win prizes, ribbons, or trophies, or money. It is competitive, which means I compete against other people also trying to win. If it looks like I am just sitting on the horse, that means I am riding right. It shouldn’t look like I’m doing anything, but I am. It takes a lot of effort to ride the horse without falling off or bouncing around uncontrollably when we are going faster than a walk. I have to make sure that the horse is listening to me, and when it isn’t listening, I have to make it listen. I have to boss a thousand pound animal around from a position it could easily throw me. It is not easy by any means, and I allow that I have never played football or baseball, and I trust anyone who has played that tells me it’s difficult. I don’t understand why it’s so hard for someone who hasn’t ridden to tell me that horse-riding

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