Abstract: As a kind of traditional ethnic sport among different nationalities in Hunan-Hubei-Chongqing-Guizhou border region,long-feet-horse(something like stilts) has become a part of P.E. teaching and national sports competition. After analysing its modernized transformation,the difference between tradional ethnic sports and modern sports has been discovered.This thesis provides theoretical refference for modernizing development of traditional ethnic sports under new social condition and new cultural choice.

Key words: traditional ethnic sports, modernized transformation, cultural choice