Ultimate shoulder rides

This is a good topic. I'd like to go on a shoulder-riding trek - with me as the rider!

We've heard about 'walking holidays.' But what about 'shoulder riding holidays?' I doubt very much whether this kind of holiday exist. Even if a commercial holiday company offered such holidays, they probably wouldn't be able to get the human ponies. If such holidays were available - for example, 3 or 4 day shoulder riding trekking holidays - these holidays would give riders and ponies the opportunity to enjoy all-day riding or carrying.

I guess that if anyone or any company started such riding and carrying holidays, they would offer them abroad where labour is cheap and plentiful (on this point, I'm thinking about the availability of ponies). Saying that, it might be politically unacceptable if well-off and somewhat young weighty western females developed a perchance for riding around on the shoulders of skinny Asian skivvies or tall muscular Negro males even if such holidays brought in much needed foreign currency into the countries which hosted shoulder riding treks. As for me, I'd be quite happy to have a 3-day shoulder riding trek here in cloudy England sat astride the shoulders of a strong and willing pony-guy who could keep going at a steady pace for 6 hours a day.

6 hours is a very long walk even WITHOUT a load.

I used to go on 1 to 1,5 hour evening walks to relax and improve my condition and make myself pleasantly tired before going to sleep. Those used to be about 7 to 10 kilometres long.

Well, a person who is desperate enough would lick the dirt of Your shoes for money but I'm not convinced that that's what checkmateguy meant I've worked with people from all continents and I think whether the male is Black, Hispanic, Yellow, Native American, White or any mixture of those  and/or anything in between as long, as there is no jealous girlfriend or wife watching him, he'd do it for a nice lady. Perhaps for free, believe it or not.

(As someone pointed out, the willingness of the rider and the carrier (which cross-influence each other) is of crucial importance. And please, understand me right. There is nothing inherently wrong with the carrier receiving some kind of gratification. Talk about the girls sitting on the boys faces after a shoulder-carry race for example )

I'd actually like to be that male; with a couple of stops for restroom and water You probably could go on for a day. I rate 6 hours carrying a passionate, average sized Woman whom I want to impress as totally possible.

But there are two kinds of things that are possible; There are things which You can do every day and then there are things which you do and drop.

I'm afraid that what we are talking about here, is the latter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_march 

Yes, equidum sent me an email about the 'human-horse' system whereby (apparently) a man can carry a rider on his back for several hours, with rest stops of course. It is a very entertaining and informative story that deserves to be re-posted on this site.

I'd love to test such a device, I must say! As for commercial shoulder-riding treks in third-world holiday destinations, the men who would be recruited to be human ponies in these countries would gain both stamina and strength if they did this work on a daily basis, week in and week out. Unfortunately, there is a lot of surplus labour in these overpopulated countries so the opportunity to earn a regular wage doing albeit a rather strange job may well be sought after by strong and able guys seeking work in the tourist industry.

In equidum's email about the human horse device, he mentioned that slaves would be ideal to use as human horses but slavery is not allowed in the western world. Wrong! Here in the UK we have a record number of slaves working as unpaid forced labour on farms, car-washes, restaurants, takeaways, and in domestic servitude. There is said to be tens of thousands of slaves currently in private ownership in the UK at the moment. Needless to say (and I only bring the subject up because you're thinking about it), yes, there are thousands of sex slaves too working in brothels in the UK.

As a business venture, I'm seriously thinking about importing some foreign slaves (10 will do) to give piggybacks and shoulder rides along the beach at Bournemouth (a seaside resort near me) next summer. It will cost £3 for a 15 minute ride. Is that good value or not? Years ago the local council used to licenced pony rides along the beach but banned these rides a few years ago because it was consider cruelty against the donkeys. There should be no such problem if I'm using humans. They'll be regarded as having agreed to give rides - and my whiplash should persuade them not to argue! Let's hope we get good sunny weather in Bournemouth next summer! Oh, and free rides for all Ultimate Shoulder Ride Community members!!! (Okay, it's just an idea at the moment).

Thank you, equidum, for your email to me and for the attachment that contained several great stories about your shoulder carrying adventures. You're a true human-pony - you were born to carry; and you were born to be ridden!

musclelover wrote:

I would love to read that story of yours equidum
Can u email it to me at shoulderride@libero.it
Would be gret to read it

I'll send it to-morrow !

checkmateguy wrote:

Further to my quip about setting myself up in business next summer by getting some slaves to give shoulder rides and piggyback rides along the beach at Bournemouth, our State-owned broadcaster, the BBC, reported yesterday that there are several thousand slaves in the UK who are privately owned and that (unknown to me) the UK government actually has a Minister for Slavery - amazing!

As long as they claim, and/or you can prove they are in voluntary slavery, you shouldn't have any trouble with that ministery for Slavery !

But I am really frustrated : I thought our Socialist leaders were the most creative in the world as regards the nomination of ministers and its consequent public spending ... It seems the UK is outsmarting us in that area ! But you won't outnumber us : WE have 35 or 37 ministers, and I will lobby the best I can to obtain the opening of a Ministery for slavery, of course !