What is the diameter of the circle in which the stilettos are competing?

The field of play for the Tall Horse competition is a circle with a diameter of 6 meters.

Athletes compete in the circle and win by knocking their opponents off their horses or out of the circle by punching, tripping, or overpowering them.

The original name of the high foot "high foot horse", also known as "riding bamboo horse", was emerging in Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing, Guizhou and other provinces, was originally the Tujia, Miao people in the ground waterlogged rainy season on behalf of wading across the shallow river tools, but also the Jing people used to wade in the sea to fish for shrimps! It is also a tool used by the Jing people to wade in the water at the seashore to fish for shrimps.

People have gradually developed the high-footed horse stomping into a competitive program of speed and confrontation, and it has become an ethnic traditional sport integrating fitness, skill, entertainment, education, popularization and mass.

The high-footed movement requires the coordination of hands and feet to do a variety of walking, turning, running and jumping movements. There are two main forms of competition: one is the high-foot racing class, athletes in the prescribed height of the high-foot horse speed competition, test the skills of athletes, strength and endurance; the other is the high-foot confrontation class, athletes in the high-foot horse attack each other to land to win, can bring more confrontation stimulation and excitement.

Historical changes

The first traditional minority sports in Hunan Province was held in 1985 in Jishou, the capital of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, where the Hunan Provincial Sports Commission and the Provincial People's Committee not only formulated the "Tall Horse Competition Rules", but also listed the tall horse as an official competition, which has led to the rapid and healthy development of the tall horse.

The Hunan Provincial Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Competition has been held for four years, and every official competition program has a high-footed horse, racing and confrontation of the two competitions. The so-called speed, is faster than who runs, can be carried out on the flat or track and field. The distances are 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m and 4×100m relay.

In addition to this, speed competition can also be adapted to the local conditions, running the appropriate distance, in the case of equal conditions, to see who is the first to run the whole course. The so-called confrontation, that is, we often say that the fight, in the prescribed field, riding on a bamboo horse, each in the rules allow the use of a variety of offensive and defensive skills, will be the other side knocked down to the ground or hit off the high horse, they are still riding on a bamboo horse for the victory.