My first meeting with horse acrobatics was with Mr. Patrick Gruss, a professor at the CNAC. He encourages me and strongly advises me to continue riding. My second "founding" meeting will be that of Mr Francesco Caroli, who will succeed Mr Gruss. With Francesco Caroli, I discovered a hidden side of Circus Arts. An equestrian discipline that can only be seen on engravings or old documents. A flagship discipline, very common and highly prized in the 19th and 20th centuries in circuses but which, unfortunately, declined and ended with the Second World War. I understand that with this "circusian" worse strain, equestrian acrobatics will now become "Horse Acrobatics" for me.