YOGYAKARTA Did you know that equestrian sports have several types. Each type of sport has its own Olympics. Types of equestrian sport start from light, elegant, to extreme.
The following article will provide information about the world's centuries-long equestrian sport.
As the name suggests, equestrian is one type of sport that shows a person's skills in riding a horse. These skills can be in the form of riding, riding, jumping, and running with a horse.
Although it looks easy, equestrian sport requires skills to good coordination between rider and horse riding. Athletes must know the basic techniques of equestrian sport.
Although this sport involves horses as riding animals, there are several types of equestrian sports that currently exist, namely as follows.
The equestrian dressage requires athletes to maintain an elegant balance and stay under control. This type of sport is included as the art of riding. Horses must be able to control horses to carry out several movements such as walking, running, and jumping. Athletes also need good physical dexterity, concentration, and intuition with their horses.
The type of racing horse is quite popular in society. This type of sport is in the form of riding a horse while running and jumping over several obstacles. In practice, horse riders must be able to maintain speed, agility, and horse accuracy in passing high obstacles.
Horse Racing is also often held in Indonesia, usually in the form of carnivals or regular competitions. Horse racing emphasizes the speed, dexterity, and concentration of horse riders on the race track. The horse racing race itself has several variants such as short-range racing (sprint), long-distance racing (stayer), cross-braces (hurdle) to race with high obstacles (steeplechase).
In Indonesia, polo equestrian sport is not as popular as horse racing. This sport is considered an elite sport because in practice it requires a lot of money such as training costs, horse care, and so on. This sport is carried out by involving two teams, each with four riders and horses.
Players have to hit the ball with a long ball to be directed at the Lawang goal. The size of the field needed is 270 meters x 150 meters. As long as the game goes on, players have to hit the ball while riding a horse. This means that athletes must be able to control the horse as well as concentrate on the ball.
Rodeo is a sport that competes in a person's skills in catching a cow while riding a horse. The arrest itself was made with both bare hands and ropes. After the cow is tied, the athlete must wrap the rope strongly and quickly so that the cow does not let go.
This sport requires a lot of skills, both in controlling horses, directing ropes, and making nodes. This sport also has the potential to cause injury to the rider if he is not careful he can fall.
This type of exercise requires athletes to complete the journey at long distances at moderate or fast speeds. The distance that must be taken is usually 50 miles, or even longer with a maximum travel time in a matter of hours to days. During the match, the health of the horse will be monitored by a veterinarian. Most of the horses are also given rest time and treatment.
Technique de Randonnatur Equestre de Competition or (TRECT) is a sport in the form of giving missions to its riders in the open. In TREC, there are three main things that will be done, namely oritening, in the form of the ability of riders to pass through routes with maps and compasses, passing obstacles that can be in the form of rivers to forests, and horse health where the rider must ensure that the horse is in prime condition while carrying out the mission.
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