Where did the sport of horse vaulting originate? best answer 5 stars!?

please, thankyou! :)|||"Equestrian Vaulting is best described as gymnastics to music on the back of a moving horse. Humans have been jumping on and off moving animals for millennia, as is attested by cave paintings in Scandinavia and vases and murals in Greece, but modern vaulting only began to develop as a sport in the 1950’s. In 1983 the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI), the world governing body for equestrian sports, accepted Vaulting as an equestrian discipline. The first World Championships were held in Switzerland in 1986, and now nearly 20 countries practice the sport. ...





Vaulting is the one equestrian discipline where up to 9 people can compete with one horse at the same time. Also unlike other disciplines, it is not necessary for a team of vaulters to have their own horses all the costs of keeping and competing a horse can be shared. This makes vaulting a wonderful discipline for development, since the considerable costs of equestrian competition can be reduced for each individual participating. Nevertheless, sponsorship is always welcome and would enable us to train judges and improve facilities to international standard, and set up vaulting in underprivileged areas identifying potential vaulters for development.





Vaulting especially at the higher levels, is a dramatic and beautiful sport to watch and, like show jumping, can be enjoyed by spectators who are not experts."





http://www.horsesport.org.za/vaulting/in…








If you have ever been to the circus, you have seen acrobatics on horseback. It's an old, old tradition.|||my great great great great great grandfather invented the pummel horse his name was Friedrich Ludwig Jahn who believed physical education was the cornerstone of the nations health and strength and that is the exact reason why he invented it, he wanted the future of germany to be strong

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|||I think you might be refering to the Pommel Horse. Here is the info you ask for.





History of Pommel horse


The oldest description of gymnastics on an artificial horse is over 600 years old. It was written by a Renatus Vegetius , who, in his four volume “Overview of the Roman Army”, describes soldiers using a wooden horse for practice. In the 17th century a drill- instructor developed the art of equestrian acrobatics from this description. In the early 19th century the wooden pommels were replaced by a biegel, and the wooden horse developed into a schwingel' covered in leather.


Today’s exciting pommel horse routines with their fascinating dynamics are hardly reminiscent of the early routines on this piece of apparatus|||greece