Slegs vier maande n\u00e1 sy kennismaking met die vaardigheid in landbou het Bradwin Pietersen op die podium van die Bloemskou se nasionale skaapskeer-kampioenskappe met \u2019n bronsmedalje om sy nek gestaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nou hoop di\u00e9 17-jarige om sy vaardighede nog meer op te skerp en Suid-Afrika eendag in die w\u00eareldkampioenskap te verteenwoordig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die Ho\u00ebrskool Kylemore-leerder hoop ook om sy studies in landbou aanstaande jaar voort te sit \u2013 en dit als n\u00e1 \u2019n toevallige bekendstelling met die vaardigheid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEen van my onderwysers het in Januarie vyf leerders gekies om \u2019n kursus in elektriese skaapskeer in Porterville by te woon,\u201d vertel Pietersen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHier is ons verskeie tegnieke en posisies geleer, asook meer oor die soorte wol en masjiene. Dit was my eerste ontmoeting met \u2019n skaap. Ek was eers skrikkerig, maar het gou aan die diere gewoond geword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTeen die einde van die kursus was ek baie gemaklik met die skape en die tegnieke. Ek het toe ook my skaapskeer-ID ontvang. Ek sou nooit kon droom dat ek skaapskeerdery s\u00f3 baie sou geniet nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 inwoner van Lanquedoc het in Februarie \u2013 slegs \u2019n paar weke n\u00e1 die kursus \u2013 aan die Wes-Kaapse skaapskeer-skolekampioenskap in Riversdal deelgeneem. Hier is hy tot die provinsiale span verkies, wat in April aan die nasionale skolekampioenskap in Bloemfontein deelgeneem het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pietersen onthou die gevoel van trots en opgewondenheid wat deur hom gespoel het toe sy naam as die wenner van die derde plek aangekondig is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het nie verwag om iets te wen nie; dit was \u2019n groot verrassing,\u201d s\u00ea die gr.12-leerder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit het my ook aangespoor om meer te oefen, meer tegnieke te leer en aan te hou om di\u00e9 aktiwiteit te beoefen. Ek hoop om verder te gaan en aanstaande jaar die nasionale span te haal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pietersen, wat ook \u2019n kranige rugbyspeler is en enige posisie in die agterlyn kan speel, meen skaapskeer moet as \u2019n sportsoort geklassifiseer word, veral omdat deelnemers \u2019n ho\u00eb fiksheidsvlak moet handhaaf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDis g\u2019n grap om \u2019n skaap te vang nie,\u201d vertel hy laggend. \u201cEk het \u2019n nuwe respek vir mense wat in di\u00e9 bedryf werk; dis harde werk. Dis nogal ook \u2019n kuns om met die masjien te werk en die perfekte snit te kry. Dit verg tyd om gehaltewerk te lewer en \u2019n mens moet fiks wees, want jy moet nie net die skaap vang nie, maar ook die regte tegnieke gebruik om die skaap in die regte posisie te hou.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pietersen se ouers is trots op sy vinnige opgang in skaapskeerdery en hy hoop om hulle nog trotser te maak wanneer hy aanstaande jaar sy studies in landbou voortsit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wil graag by Elsenburg gaan swot en deel wees van die Elsenburg-skaapskeerspan. Ek dink dis die eerste stap om my loopbaan in skaapskeer te laat floreer.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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