Woman taught herself to run and jump like a horse:

[tblue37]

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Everybody needs a hobby!

The 10-year-old horse crazy girl in me is very jealous. <g>

[hlthe2b]

2. Well, that is truly bizarre, but she has succeeded...

I pity her back in future years, however.

[Sanity Claws]

3. I wonder if she has shown her running style to her horses

and how they reacted.

[tblue37]

4. That early scene where she runs down the road toward the camera: from a distance

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it does look like a horse is coming toward us.

[Ponietz]

5. I see a potential WNBA point guard MVP!

[MuseRider]

6. I am impressed!

I watched early parts a couple of times and she does indeed do a lead change. Well done!

[Kaleva]

7. In the comments, it's said she injured herself and had to be put down.

[Bayard]

8. Looks painful

I know my horses would freak out if I did that. Especially if I started eating their hay.....

[csziggy]

9. I hope she's doing this voluntarily and not by necessity

A family in Russia seems to have no choice about walking on all fours:

The Family That Walks On All Fours is a BBC Two documentary that explored the science and the story of five individuals in the Ulas family, a Kurdish family in Southeastern Turkey that walk with a previously unreported quadruped gait.[1][2][3][4]

The documentary about the Kurdish family in Turkey was created by Passionate Productions and was broadcast on 17 March 2006. The narrator is Jemima Harrison. A revised version of the documentary that shifts the focus away from the story of the discovery of the family and includes the views of additional scientists was shown on NOVA on 14 November 2006.

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Debate exists as to the nature and cause of the family's walking, including controversial speculation in the form of the Uner Tan syndrome that it may be a genetic throwback to pre-bipedal hominid locomotion. However, Nicholas Humphrey, who accompanied the documentary makers, concluded that it was due to a rare set of genetic and developmental circumstances coming together. First, their mother recalls that initially all of her 19 children started off walking with a bear-crawl (i.e. on their feet rather than their knees). Second, due to an inherited recessive genetic mutation, they have a non-progressive congenital cerebellar ataxia that impairs the balance children normally use to learn to walk bipedally. Not being able to manage the balance needed for bipedal walking, they perfected in its place their initial bear-crawl into an adult quadruped gait. The family's walking likely has nothing to do with genes involved in the human evolution of upright walk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_That_Walks_on_All_Fours