Adaptive Horse Riding: Other Equipment

Video Transcript

"My name is Raeshell Sorensen and I am the Equestrian Manager here at the National Ability Center and we do have multiple programs that we offer now but would like to offer in addition to hippotherapy and our riding lessons, one program is vaulting which we don't have yet but would like to have in the future. This is a vaulting barrel where kids now can practice vaulting these. Vaulting is typically gymnastics on top of a horse. A horse is attached to a long lunge line and the horse will ride around in circles, walk, trot, canter and riders on top of the horse will do different moves or gymnastics on top of the horse while it is moving. There is a therapeutic vaulting that comes from NARA, North American Riders for the Handicapped Association that we are affiliated with and some day we would also like to implement. This barrel is also used in many other ways. We have a rider who was scared to get on the horse at first and in order to get them on the horse we actually used the barrel first so that he could get on the barrel, know how to get on and then take what he learned to be able to get on the horse."