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 Safety
How does vaulting compare
to other activities?
While it can be a thrilling
spectator sport, vaulting is not only
the safest of the equestrian disciplines,
but it is documented safer than riding
bicycles, playing on
playground equipment,
participating
in baseball and softball, skating, soccer,
and trampolines, among others.
Vaulting injuries are
comparable to those seen in
gymnastics,
and AVA injury
summary
reports demonstrate that the majority
of vaulting injuries are sprains. This
is
due to the Three
Points of Vaulting Safety that distinguish
it from the horseback riding disciplines.
A Consumer
Product Safety Commission report
of head injury to children under 15 years
of age associated with all types of consumer
products demonstrates that total injuries
are greatest for 1) Bicycles; 2) Swings/SwingSets;
3) Baseball/Softball; 4) Grocery/Shopping
Carts; 5) Monkey Bars/Playground Equipment;
6) Bunk Beds; 7) Carriers/Carseats; 8)
Skating (all); 9) Slides; 10) Strollers;
11) Baby Walkers; 12) Soccer; 13) Playground
Equipment; 14) Trampolines; 15) Cribs,
all; 16) ATVs; 17) High Chairs; 18) Hockey;
19) Horseback Riding, etc. Both the U.S. and German records
demonstrate that vaulting has a much
lower incidence of injury than the other
equestrian disciplines.
--US
Consumer Product Safety Commission report
of September 29, 1999 “Children’s
Head Injuries: 1998 Injuries”
Most vaulting injuries
are sprains and are comparable to those
seen in gymnastics.
--AVA
Injury Summary Reports; Robert Faulkner,
MD, American Medical Equestrian Association
(AMEA), AVA
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Vaulting