Born May the 7th 1961 Bettina Eistel is a German para dressage rider who has represented her country at 2004 and 2008 paralympic games winning silver and bronze medals. Below you can watch Bettina Eistel in action with Fabuleux 5 at the 2008 Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, Fantastic skilled riding from beautiful partnership.
Below you can watch a video of Bettina Eistel in training with her new horse, together the pair are working on creating a new horse-human dialog. The start if the jorney began with a 4000KM journey to Germany, together the new horse/human partnership began their bonding process with Bettina Eistel grooming and tacking up her new horse love. From the ground they learned to read each others body language, with patience calm and a little help, developing a deep trust.
You don't need arms to hold a horse ... This is the lesson taught by Bettina Eistel, born without upper limbs due to a genetic problem and now a Paralympic athlete on her Fabuleux5.
The story of Bettina, accustomed from a very young age to using her feet as if they were hands to carry out every little daily action, teaches us something very special about our habitual tendency to pity ourselves and to give up for small injuries, health problems or jokes. arrest.
In Bettina we find all the freshness, courage and confidence of those who have been able to grasp life and force it to pay its toll of joy, which is due to any human being thrown on this earth.
Today Bettina smiles, takes part in the Paralympic national dressage team with the reins between her teeth (not only in a broad sense) and looks after her partner by grooming, handing him, saddling him and playing with apple sweets, just like everyone else. we ... just using your feet instead of your hands. Congratulations Bettina for the example you are.
Coloured Dressage Stallion
Coloured Dressage Stallion
