Quest Vaulting Institute Mpumalanga - Uplands

23/08/2024

Team QVI is super excited to have the opportunity to compete at the South African Vaulting Championships this year. Our awesome vaulters and their horse will be vaulting their hearts from the 21st to the 24th of September at Kyalami Park Equestrian.

We are reaching out to individuals, as well as small and large businesses who would be interested in contributing towards the expenses of this milestone event for Team Mpumalanga. Items for goody bags and financial contributions of any size would be so appreciated.

Please contact Coach Carla for more info on 072 585 6026. 😎

20/07/2024

**Gauteng Vaulting Championships 2024**

QVI MP had the opportunity to participate at the Gauteng Vaulting Championships held in JHB on the 13th & 14th of July. Vaulters, Oliveah Fourie & Abigail Arde demonstrated remarkable skill and determination, achieving podium results in ever my class despite the challenge of vaulting on a new horse in an unfamiliar environment.

Abigail Arde

🏅5th Place in E Grade Barrel: Abigail performed impressively, securing the 5th place out of 28 competitors with a commendable gold score of 6.584.

🥉3rd Place in E Grade Horse: Abigail achieved a gold score of 6.577, earning her a well-deserved 3rd place

Oliveah Fourie

🥇1st Place in D Grade Barrel: Oliveah secured 1st place with a personal best score of 6.589.

🥈2nd Place in D Grade Horse (Canter Rounds): Oliveah achieved a personal best score of 6.303, earning her the 2nd place.

A massive thank you to Barbie Gertenbach and Coach Boemo and for the opportunity of vaulting on your most precious Aqua. 🦄

Thank you to for hosting a lovely show, and for spoiling our vaulters with such beautiful goodie bags and stunning rosettes! 🏵️

Looking forward to South African Vaulting Championships in September 🦄🐴

28/04/2024

f you enjoying dancing, gymnastics, being around horses and having loads of fun then vaulting is the sport for you! 🐴

Vaulting is a unique and ever-growing equestrian sport that combines the art of dance and gymnastics on a moving horse. What a wonderful way to improve your balance, coordination, core strength and self-confidence while working in harmony with a horse.
You don't need any previous equestrian, dance or gymnastics experience to start vaulting and we welcome vaulters of all ages to come and give it a try.

What are you waiting for? Book your free trial lesson today!

27/01/2024

It’s good to be back!! 🎉

Kick starting the year with some fitness and barrel drills and ended off the week by bringing Leja back into work after a super restful festive holiday 😂

26/12/2023

Merry Christmas 🎄

From our QVI Mp Vaulting family to yours ❤️🩵

This year brought us so many beautiful memories to cherish, some incredibly tough challenges and heartbreaks. May 2024 take us to new heights and bring us more joy and happiness.

Love from Forest, Leja & Coach Carla ❤️🩵

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13/10/2023

South African Vaulting Championships 2023.

A core memory for QVI Mpumalanga and what a fabulous event it was.

Our vaulters, horse, coach & parents brought their A-game. Vaulters vaulted their hearts out and improved on their overall scores accumulated during the season. Forest gave his all to every single vaulter, Coach Carla lunged like she never has before and both accumulated some incredible horse/lunger scores.

Mpumalanga placed 3rd overall in the E grade Provincial Team Championship as well as 3rd place in the over all D grade Provincial Championship.

Incredibly grateful to every member of our team, the sponsors, and to Uplands College for making this dream an absolute reality.

Individual results to follow.

22/09/2023

Team Mpumalanga have arrived at the South African Vaulting Championships in KwaZulu-Natal 🐴

Dressed to impress & ready to strut their stuff over the next 3 days. Forest will also make his debut as the Mpumalanga team horse and it’s his very first time competing off home turf.

Excited is an understatement 🤩 A massive thank you to our sponsors who generously contributed towards making this dream a reality! We would not have been able to achieve this without you 🤩

Carolyn Brayshaw
Safari Creators
Life is Sheedy
Mangovo Safaris
The Fourie Family
Melanie Di**le & her incredible support crew.
South African Equestrian Federation

17/08/2023

QVI Uplands hosted the MP provincial qualifier on the 29th of July, it was a wonderful afternoon enjoyed by our vaulters, judges and supporters.

For a lot of these young vaulters, it was the first time presenting their vaulting skills to our panel of judges and what a great way to do it on your home ground.

It was also Forest King’s very first official performance and boy did he put his best foot forward. Giving the vaulters that extra boost of confidence and looking absolutely fabulous doing so!

We are so proud to announce that the following vaulters have been selected to represent Mpumalanga at the South African Vaulting Championships taking place in Balito from the 21st to the 24th of September this year:

E Grade 🐴
Isabella Webber
Shadrane Schutte
Antoine Di**le
Nobayeni Kutumela
Salome Kutumela

D Grade :
Oliveah Fourie

Congratulations to all our vaulters on their wonderful achievement.

14/06/2023

Uplands is looking to expand their team. If you’d like to apply please follow the Google form link on the original post and submit your CV 🌸 A great opportunity for a horsey enthusiast and riding coach to be a part of a professional and progressive team.

We’re growing the team and are on the search for a part time Yard Assistant!
If you’re a passionate horse lover with coaching experience and good horse knowledge then click the link below 🐴

https://rb.gy/pckwb

Applications close: 15 June

29/05/2023

Gauteng 5th Selection Show Vasa & Sanesa Qualifier 27 May 2023.

Isabella Webber & Oliveah Fourie performed like absolute super stars this past weekend. A long and cold day for these 2 young competitors, however they vaulted their hearts out and displayed amazing sportsmanship right through to the end🤩

🏆 Results 🏆

Oliveah Fourie:
D Grade Barrel U12 - 🥈2nd place with a score of 6.2
D Grade Horse U12 - 🥈2nd place with a score of 5.9
SANESA D Grade Horse -🏅 6th place

Isabella Webber:
D Grade Barrel U12 - 🏅 5th place with a score of 6.1
E Grade Horse U12 - 🎖️Gold award with a score of 6.7
E Grade Horse SANESA -🏅 4th place

The girls also performed their first ever D grade barrel pairs routine as the Mad Hatter & Alice in Wonderland 🤩 Walking away with a super score of 6.659 and a second place 🥈 in SANESA & 3rd in Vasa. Melony Swart Ingram you out did yourself with their outfits, they were just so amazing 🤩 thank you!!

As always, a big thank you to Quest Vaulting Institute, Coach Bongani Mvumvu, & Caitlin Moorhouse for your incredible hospitality and assistance at these shows. It sure feels like a home away from home when competing with you! Thank you to our QVI parents who commit to these out of province shows, for your amazing support towards our club, your super star kids and of course our Seattle coffee runs are always appreciated 🍾🥂

Well done to all the competitors and we look forward to Gauteng Champs in July ✨

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26/05/2023

Step out of your comfort zone & try something new. Doesn’t have to be monumental but it does have to be different to the everyday thing. 🤩

Oliveah & Isabella are testing out the waters with their very first pairs routine. Alice & the Mad Hatter will be performing for the first time at the Gauteng qualifier this weekend.

Good luck to team QVI competing this weekend and keep an eye on our socials for regular updates 🤩
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13/04/2023

Going to miss this ray of sunshine at vaulting ❤️ Come visit us as soon as you can! Leja will be waiting for you 😍

It is with a very sad and heavy heart that we bid farewell to Lia & Zoe and the Ziessler family, as they embark on their journey to their new home in Plett. We are going to miss you terribly and hope that you come to visit us regularly. We wish you all the best with this new chapter in your lives. So much love for you all ❤️❤️❤️

21/03/2023

• CVI Kyalami•

Team QVI MP participated at the CVI in Kyalami on the 18th & 19th of March.

Oliveah & Lia tested out the waters in their very first D grade competition and did themselves very proud. Judged by a full international panel, we’ve taken home some very useful points for further training but also realised that we do this sport for the love and fun of it ❤️❤️

Oliveah Fourie
5th Place in U12 D grade barrel
3rd Place in U12 D grade horse

Lia Ziessler
2nd Place in Jnr D grade horse.

A huge thank you to team , & for your amazing hospitality, advise & of course amazing horses. We appreciate you guys more than you know.

Well done team QVI for a wonderful weekend and we are looking forward to the next one.

05/02/2023

If you enjoying dancing, gymnastics, being around horses and having loads of fun then vaulting is the sport for you! 🐴

Vaulting is a unique and ever-growing equestrian sport that combines the art of dance and gymnastics on a moving horse. What a wonderful way to improve your balance, coordination, core strength and self-confidence while working in harmony with a horse.
You don't need any previous equestrian, dance or gymnastics experience to start vaulting and we welcome vaulters of all ages to come and give it a try.

What are you waiting for? Book your free trial lesson today!

02/02/2023

Smiles all round as Leja successfully completes her first group vaulting session. She is a magical unicorn and loved by all 😍

25/12/2022

From our horse & vaulting crazy family to yours, we would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas Holiday 🎄

2022 was an incredible year filled with plenty highs as well as it’s fair share of challenges. Together as a family of incredible people we made it through this year and we are stronger for it.

May 2023 be a year of break throughs and growth for you all but for now please enjoy the Christmas eye candy of our precious steeds 🐴 for the most beautiful photos!

15/10/2022

Team QVI is so proud of how far our small team has come.

Hard work, dedication and endless hours of fun really do pay off 😎🥳

May this be an inspiration to many, keep believing in yourself and reach for those goals - it can be done ✔️

The two young stars who just started in this sport are already making waves in the national competition.
Read more: https://mpumalanganews.co.za/415962/mpumalanga-shines-in-south-african-national-vaulting-championship/

03/10/2022

What a wonderful way to end the 2022 vaulting season 🥳🥳

Team QVI MP walked away with plenty rosettes, massive smiles and wonderful memories after a very successful South African Vaulting Championship.

Results 🏆

E Grade Barrel
🥇Nobayeni Kutumela 1st Place
🏅Salome Kutumela 4th Place

D Barrel u12
🏅Oliveah Fourie 4th Place

D Barrel u14
🏅 Phebe Tyson 6th place

D Barrel Junior
🥇Katie Mills 1st Place
🏅 Calla Harman 4th Place

E Horse u8
🥇 Nobayeni Kutumela 1st Place
🥈Salome Kutumela 2nd Place

E Horse u12
🥉Oliveah Fourie 3rd

E Horse u14
🥇 Phebe Tyson 1st Place

E Horse Juniors
🥇 Katie Mills 1st Place
🥈 Calla Harman 2nd Place

Overall E grade supreme champion - Katie Mill 🏆

Overall E grade provincial winner - Mpumalanga!! 🏆🥳🏆🥳

Thank you to our amazing team mates at & for helping us make this vaulting dream in Mpumalanga a reality and for simply being the best!
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25/09/2022

Day 1 of the South African Vaulting Championships started off with a bang 🎉

Our team may be small but we sure give it our all!! Here are some results after the barrel classes :

U8 E Grade Barrel:
🏅Noba & Sasa - Bronze Certificates

U12 D Grade Barrel :
🏅Oliveah Fourie 5th Place

Children D Grade Barrel:
🏅Phebe Tyson 9th Place

Junior D Grade Barrel:
🏅Calla Harman 5th Place
🥈Katie Mills 2nd Place

D Grade SANESA Primary School:
🥉Mpumalanga placed 3rd

D Grade SANESA High School :
🏆 Mpumalanga placed 1st!!

These barrel classes were HUGE and we are extremely proud of our team and of their progress throughout this year 🥳

Bring on the last day and of course we wish all the vaulters the best of luck with their final Freestyle rounds.

23/09/2022

The day has finally arrived! Today team QVI Uplands will participate at the South African Vaulting Championships for the very first time! 🤩

The vaulters have had 2 awesome days of training with our fellow team mates at & and are simply rearing to give it their all today in the barrel and E grade horse compulsory rounds.

Wishing all our vaulters and their fellow competitors the best of luck and may we come home with plenty new friends and wonderful memories.

You can watch it all on the EquiLive live-streaming via the YouTube link in the comments 🥳

17/08/2022

What a special year it’s been for our vaulters!

Looking forward to SA Champs in September 🤩😎

04/08/2022

Big smiles all round as Mr Forest makes his comeback into the vaulting arena after a couple months of rest. He is just the best boy and loves his vaulters with all his heart ❤️ Welcome back big man 🦄🐴

So grateful to Dr Daniela Harman from for helping us with his journey to recovery.

15/07/2022

Team QVI is super excited to be a part of the Mpumalanga Show this year 🥳 Watch this space as we share more of what you could expect to see 😉

Quest Vaulting Institute Uplands Equestrian Centre Rain Dance Stables Bongani Mvumvu Caitlin Moorhouse

24/05/2022

Today was a good day for Team QVI’s newest team member. 🥰 Eisengarde is growing in leaps and bounds with his vaulting work and we sure are falling in love with him more and more everyday ❤️

01/03/2022

The absolute highlight of our first QVI clinic for the year 🤩

We have been offered to opportunity to train and vault on this incredible gentle giant of a puppy 😍 Eisengarde took everything in his stride like an absolute professional and left both coaches in awe 😱🥰

We are so excited about this horse and super grateful to the Knight family for allowing us to work with him.

Thank you for capturing the best moments 🤩
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