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A team of voltige it's: a horse, a longeur and
a voltigeur
The voltige can be compared with one activite of slide by the fact that the voltigeur must balance on unstable supports
and moving; the horse. The animal in the center of the activity, and
that which one must respect more, is held in longe (on a circle) by the
longeur. It is the longeur who directs and controls the animal.
This
discipline could even be the base of riding because it brings a
very good plate to horse and it teaches with no matter whom to know one
of the best friend of the man without needing to worry about the
direction or speed.
It is also a lifting activity which brings to the
wire drives, flexibility, tonicity, force, breath, concentration,
balance, creativity…
For which?
All the people!
The voltige can be
practised on ponies for smallest or on horses for largest.
It is
accesible at all the ages, on several levels; entertaining, competitive
or even therapeutic!
Is it security?
yes, and even much.
As opposed to
what the majority of people think which approach this discipline for
the first time, the voltige is a very security sport.
Strangely the assembly of two particularly dangerous sports like horsemanship and
the gymnastics makes association very pleasant and self.
As of the
first courses of voltige, the trainer insists on the receptions
and the attitudes to be adopted in the event of fall, which reduces the
wounds to distorsions of the knees or ankles broken but any fall or
wound on the head known to date.
The port of the helmet is not permit voltige about it and even strictly refused in any competent trainer
because it would prevent the good development of the voltigeur, would
involve an incapacity to carry out move and could even cause
problems of the neck.
Several statistics were carried out on
the voltige:
ex: 1 accident for 350 hours of horsemanship
1
accident for 4945 hours of stunt-flying
Can voltiging all the year?
The voltige requires a soft
ground for the receptions. In winter, the ground must be worked of such
kind that it not freeze so that one can continue has to voltige. However, it
is all the same disadvised voltiging at a temperature lower than -10°C to
avoid problem articular or muscular.
However, even if it is not
possible to voltige during the too cold temperatures, one can nevertheless
continue to improve while working of the exercises with his musics on
the ground or the tono in a heated room.
Where to take lessons of voltige ?
In page, Links/Provincial you will find a list of the
clubs in Quebec who give the lessons of voltige and who recognized by
ASSVEQ.
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