Pushball.nl: pushball on horseback... it's kicking! History & International Connections: Horses and the large ball, the only equine teamsport with the horse pushing the large ball by itself

International names of this old horse game: pushball on horseback, pushball a cheval (F), horse soccer, equine soccer, equine pushball, paardenvoetbal (NL), horse football, hoofball

Equine pushball fascinates Pacific Slope (New York Times, April 21, 1907) http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=2&res=9407EFDB163EE233A25752C2A9629C946697D6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin _r=2&res=9407EFDB163EE233A25752C2A9629C946697D6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin _r=2&res=9407EFDB163EE233A25752C2A9629C946697D6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Horse soccer (USA)
http://www.horsesoccer.com/

Equine soccer
http://www.naturalhorsetalk.com/documents/PlayEquineSoccer.pdf

Hoofball
http://science.blogdig.net/archives/articles/June2006/03/Hoofball.html
Source of this article is: http://4beatgait.blogspot.com/ => see hoofball junior!

Paardenvoetbal - Horsefootball (Europe, NL)
Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFLOMeGaf4

Invitation to (inter)national pushball trainers

With this blog a space is created to exchange pushball (on horseback) experiences all over the world:
At this moment each country has it's own pushball tradition in playing pushball with horses.
On this site pushball trainers can share their training methods, game tactics, game rules with other trainers all over the world.
There are a lot of training systems. Each trainings system can add something new to an existing system in a other country. Even if it has his origin in an completely other discipline.

For example, this is my own out-of-the-box psycology: the choice of a certain horse (for his field position) depends firstly on his experience, but secondly on his character! And after that, finaly the character and experience of his rider. Why?
An attacker (meaning the horse) wants to fight for the ball and is greedy.
And a defender (horse) isn't affraid for an opposit horse, so he won't move while the other is approaching him fastly.
"Go with the flow" is a method used by less experienced horses and riders. Then there won't be a hard confrontation.
So, my opinion: use the power you already have as a benefit. And protect the weak parts, and let them grow.

Yours,

Lenus88

Pushball.nl: pushball on horseback... it's kicking! History & International Connections

15.7.08

Horses and the large ball, the only equine teamsport with the horse pushing the large ball by itself

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