In this episode you will get to know Felix Bender who is chairman of the german association "Der Voltigierzirkel", who also distributes a vaulting magazine that is sended out 4 times a year. The magazine is in german and does cover everything from basic vaulting to an international level. Everything captured in a beautiful colored paperback magazine. A range of different professions are contributing to this high quality magazine to show the debth of our sport. The people interviewd or writing for the magazine are though not always Germans. Throughout the years people from all around the world ..read more

Nienke de Wolff is a well know lunger in the vaulting world and runs her own vaulting business in the Netherlands. In this episode you will get to know here better and how she runs her vaulting buisness. Nienke does not only lunge horses for vaulting. She also engages with competetative vaulters from over the world, runs her own vaulting club, sells vaulting horses and gives vaulting inspired riding lessons to riders who have a fear for riding. This woman has a lot of different ideas about vaulting and isn't afraid of making them becoming reality. If you'd like to know more about Nienkes busin ..read more

In this episode of The Vaulting Pod you will get to know more about the adult figure skating community in Sweden and how supportive it is to make it possible to skate regardless of age. Helen is 47 years old and has been both competing and participating in Holiday on Ice - a huge and impressive figure skating show that travels around the world. Today Helen skates on a daily basis and has been participating at the Winter World Masters Games in Innsbruck in 2020 which is a competition for 30+ Year Olds. The inspiration Helen brings with her participation in the sport is something the vaulting co ..read more

In this interview you will get to know more about Kim af Schulthén, the swedish vaulting costume maker who designs and sews dresses for vaulters and other sports like figure skating, gymnastics and body building. Kim is not only running her own business by designing and making glamorous dresses for vaulter. She is also a vaulting judge in Sweden and internationally and has her heart in the sport since she was a vaulter herself as a child. In this episode we talk about the process of making a vaulting dresse, vaulting competitions, horses and the sport in general. If you want to find Kim and he ..read more

This is the second part of the interview with Kylynn Ghfouri who is a former gymnast that started vaulting in the middle of her gymnastics career. Within three years she managed to get to the youth world championships in Le Mans in 2021. Find out what makes her laugh, how it is to travel with your own equipment over the pacific ocean to compete on other than your own horses and what a stalker had to do with her recent freestyle theme. Kylynn is currently competing in CVIJ2* individual female and lives the life of a competitive vaulter while home schooling. --- Send in a voice message: https ..read more

Kylynn Ghfouri is a former gymnast that started vaulting in the middle of her gymnastics career. Within three years she managed to get to the youth world championships in Le Mans in 2021. Find out what makes her laugh, how it is to travel with your own equipment over the pacific ocean to compete on other than your own horses and what a stalker had to do with her recent freestyle theme. Kylynn is currently competing in CVIJ2* individual female and lives the life of a competitive vaulter while home schooling.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-vaulting ..read more

This episode is the first interview with 2 vaulters at the same time: long time active vaulter Devon Maitoza, who has been the oldest vaulter participating at a world championship and his partner Kalyn Noah, who also has been a vaulter for a long time. They are both situated in the U.S. In this interview you will get to know more about how it is to have vaulting as a full-time job, Devons thoughts about vaulting as an adult with 46 years of age and how the toughts are for both of them planning on going to the World Championships that where held in Budapest this year.  The interview was he ..read more

Amanda is an individual senior 3* vaulter from Denmark, also competing for the 3* danish vaulting team BIS Voltige (Bilund Sportsrideklub). Besides vaulting Amanda is a physiotherapist that currently works with online coaching. She is also an ambassador for the FEI World Championships held in Herning, Denmark in august 2022.  In this interview you can find out about the gains of training with a vaulting simulator from Racewood, why the love for horses alway's comes first and about the importance of listening to your body when it comes to injury prevention. Also we talk about preconceived ..read more

Here's a christmas special you can listen to while you are making the christmas dinner, travel home to your family or just hang with your fellow vaulting family. This episode is about motivation and how to keep it. I hope you enjoy listening to some of the things I find helpful when I feel unmotivated. Also in this episode you can find a poll where you can tell me what you think about this episode. The poll is open until January 31st 2022. You find it on Anchor.fm Merry Christmas to you! Love, Madeleine from The Vaulting Blog --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show ..read more

In this new episode of The Vaulting Pod you will listen to an interview about handstands and movement. My dear friend and handstand coach Viktor Sundin shares his philosophy and knowledge about life and what makes training in only his underwear or tights so much better. Viktor is not only a coach for handstands, he is also teaching people including himself about moving in different way's. How all of this goes down to vaulting you can discover in this brand new episode of The Vaulting Pod! You can find out more about Viktor and his online classes (that do indeed help vaulters a lot too) at: htt ..read more