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 have contributed with their knowledge to it. Competetative vaulting as it is today has it's roots in Germany and with over 400 active clubs Germany is considered as the Mecca of vaulting which makes it easy to understand that there is a market for this kind of magazine entirely in german. Besides the production of the magazine the association does get involved with active vaulters through supporting them with different rewards and through their activity in social media. This they do through their instragram- and facebook account, but also through their own vaulting podcast in german called "Volticast". To receive the magazine and make use of all the other advantages you need to be a member of the association. And they do send the magazine to other countries then Germany as well. Besides the magazine and supporting the vauting community in various ways members can find a lot of recorded videos from vaulting competitons on the homepage. All for only 46€/year. 

About Felix: he has his background in the vaulting scene in Germany and has also a widely spread network in the community. He has been a vaulter and a vaulting trainer himself, bit nowadays he contributes his voluntary work in his freetime to the association. Not only as a chairman, but also as a producer of the magazine. His "real" job is working as a speech therapist. In this episode we talk about everything in between having heavy metal or teddybears as a theme for a freestyle.

You can find more information about "Der Voltigierzirkel" at: https://www.voltigierzirkel.de

The interview was recorded in december 2021.

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 business or want to get in touch with her, visit her homepage:

https://dewolffvaulting.com/en/

The interview was recorded in september 2021.

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 community could take a look at to support the sport amongst adults and develop it further. Get ready to be inspired in this episode!

The interview was recorded in august 2021.

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 here work go and visit: www.kim-couture.se You can also find her in Instagram and TikTok under the name Costumes made by Kim. This interview was recorded in august of 2021.

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.

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. 

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 held in august 2021, just right before they headed over to Europe for training and competing. Devon has been in the sport for over 39 years and is still active. His greatest medal won was a gold medal in Rome in 1998. Kalyn is originally from Canada, has been vaulting since she was 16 years old and is still active with her now 33 years of age. Despite the late start in the sport she has made it all the way to qualify for the World Championships. 

If you want to know how both of them met, what it is like to share a vaulting life together as adults and how they manage limited training time on horses you'd better listen to this podcast that is full of knowledge shared by both of them.

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 notions when it comes to vaulting horses and their training. 

Amanda has a very successful Instagram account and has brought vaulting to the world through her Tik Tok account. Find her on Instagram: amanda_staalsoe & amanda_elonga and on TikTok: amanda_staalsoe 

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: https://expandingmovement.com

Honorable mentions in this episode are:

* Frank Medrano, a calisthenics 

* Ido Portal, a movement mover

* David aka @freetheframe, Viktors first coach

* Naprapatjonas, insanely great instagram content

* Kalle Zackari Wahlström 

* Nil Teisner

* Micha Bakker @human.mvmnt

"It takes a real man to wear a spandex." - is how Thomas simply puts it when it comes to being a male vaulter. 

In this episode of The Vaulting Pod you are getting to know more about Thomas Lindqvist - owner of the online vaulting shop "Linqvist Voltige" from Denmark. Thomas is one of many faces in the vaulting scene who is full of enthusiasm about the sport and is working for it to be more accessible through selling vaulting products like cloth, shoes, barrels and barrel surcingles to a fair price at www.voltige.dk.

"You don’t have to fear what everybody else thinks." - is one of his mottos and with that he has been part of a big vaulting barrel competiton in Denmark with a grand final at "The Tivoli" in Copenhagen (which is a huge amusement park in Denmark and one of the oldest in the world). 

Mentions in this podcast: Danish vaulter Amanda Elonga Staalsø and the World Equestrian Games of 2022 i Herning, Denmark. Link:  https://herning2022.com/en/influencers