Personal Essay: The Sport Of Show Jumping

Riding horses can be used in many spectacular ways. Horses can be used for therapy with special needs children. Horses can help ease soldier’s minds. Riding horses helps with emotional issues, diminish post-traumatic stress disorders, and allow children with special needs to have fun.

Imagine walking on a four-inch piece of wood that is four feet off the ground, or flying through the air performing skills people only dream of doing. Gymnastics is a sport that taught me many things including, how to preserve through difficult situations and how to overcome my fears. I did gymnastics for ten years before I decided that the sport was too stressful and time consuming.

My bestest friends Megan, Allie and Kylee all were super kindhearted and cheered me on!

According to society, Equestrians are jockeys that race around a track. But to anyone who’s actually ridden or has a passion for horses, you know that there are two distinctive styles of riding - English and Western. There are both similarities and differences between the two types of riding. Regardless of the style of riding people participate in or favor, each world of riding opens up various activities for the rider to enjoy.

Western Pleasure riding and English Hunter Jumpers are two distinctive techniques with diverse characteristics, but the riders themselves share a common attitude of love and passion for riding. Talent and technique ample for creating a riding career, but the need for passion in riding significantly exceeds that of talent and technique. The creation of the horse is a gift, which enables people to feel freedom and adoration towards a magnificent animal. Riders with a desire to succeed recognize that riding is not about conquering the horse but becoming one with the

Horses are trained by Heidi’s interns in basic dressage and jumping, very different from their past of galloping counter clockwise around a racetrack.

The all time favorite,most popular, and the one that poses the most danger is the high wire. High wire is the same as tight wire but at much greater height. Although there is no official height when tight wire becomes high wire, generally a wire over twenty feet high will be regarded as high wire act. Traditionally, the difference is in style of performance. Usually they will only use a pole to help balance them as they walk across, but have been known to also use a bike or unicycle too. The reason why this is the crowds favorite is because it takes a great deal of skill,fearlessness, and just the high risk of death it portrays. Many of people have in fact died doing this, and died doing what they loved to do.

No matter if the equestrian is a part of a large group or a single owned animal, horse care/maintenance is a must. For example, at any given time a horse injury

They are not the most common used horse for jumping, but they are still found to be used in this sport. They are generally used for show jumping. They usually are not used for hunter jumping or cross country jumping because these are long distance sports. They can also be used for dressage which is basically horse dancing. Both of these sports takes unique skills for the horse to be able to do. Not all Quarter horse are able to do these sports. The Quarter horse is used in many different sports today (Huggett, 2018).

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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.

I have been advancing my horsemanship skills through private lessons, clinics, and shows since I was eleven years old. I am well disciplined in western and english equitation and I continue to practice my ranch roping skills. I trained my own horse under the supervision of a professional who instilled in me the likings of the great horseman, Tom Dorrance. I have exceptional experience working with young, green horses as well as well trained bridle horses.

When many people approach a horse, they instantly feel cautious of their surroundings. These people tense up and become terrified because of the horse’s size, how they look, or just because they have heard of people being injured from horses. Many people are intimidated by how big some horses can be and they do not want to be around them. Horses are only thought to be a dangerous animal, but they have helped humans in many ways. For instance, they have helped with farm work that humans couldn’t have done by themselves, and they were a mode of human transportation for many years. The things horses have done for humans have helped in many ways, but horses have many other purposes that can help people out. Although many people agree

My brain goes silent. I forget my problems, my issues, my struggles, and everything that makes me feel dead inside. Nothing gives me more hope and happiness, then running on floor to hanging on a bar. From the darkness inside comes a light that feels like an eternal flame that can never be extinguished. Nothing can stop me from feeling more alive. Starting gymnastics has been the best decision I have ever made and has made me the person I am today. With every move, every skill, and every moment, gymnastics makes me feel alive.

Marketing a new product requires strategic planning and research into the target market. The equestrian market is vast in size and diversity and is often underestimated by businesses (Graham-Suggett, 1999: 31). Due to the range of disciplines and activities covered by this market, targeting just one group could lead to increased sales through word of mouth