OME Magazine

VAULTING
by Bálint Komáromi 7B
SPORTS
My sisters and I are doing a very interesting and complicated
sport which is called vaulting. This sport isn´t very popular
in Hungary. What it is
about? It’s like an extreme
sport, because you have to
do various acrobatic movements
on the back of a horse
while the horse is running
around. We also do it in pairs which is called ‘pas de doux
‘or as a group when there are three of us on the back of the
horse at the same time.
You have to react to the music, to the horse and to your
partners and to be acrobatic. You have to be strong to hold
up yourself or another person and you need to have good
reflexes to stand on the back of the horse. You have to concentrate
very much on what you are doing because you don’t
want to hurt the horse, your partners or yourself.
I love the challenge. That’ why I like vaulting.
Curling
by Ryan Arnott 8C
Curling is a sport which was invented in Scotland.
You have eight heavy granite stones which you have
to slide into the target area. The target is made out of
four circles and the closer you get to the middle, the
better the shot is. There are two teams of four. Both
teams have eight stones. Two players (the sweepers)
can influence the path of the stone by sweeping the
floor in front of it.
The strategy is to make sure you let the stone slide on
the ideal path. If you let it go on the correct path, the
stone will go towards the middle of the circles. It’s not
that easy though, because the other team can push
your stone out of its place.
If you would like to try it out, you don’t have to go
to Scotland, there is a curling rink in Kamaraerdő,
Budaörs!
Photo:World Champion Dorottya Palancsa and me.