The Shepherds Leap

Over the last month, I contacted a cousin who I hadn’t spoke to in many many years, and basically she sent over a ‘regaton’ – the metal point at the end of a garotte that sticks into the ground.
When I first did The Shepherds Leap, 20 years ago when I was 18 and took a gap year in Gran Canaria, I spent time with my dads sister and cousins..One cousin had a partner who practised the Salto del Pastor and I went along with him, spending the whole day with a garotte. I found it quite easy at the time and it was one of my favourite days. I raved about it when I got back to London, it was hard to explain to friends back then and over the years it slipped my mind until I moved to the mountainous region in Portugal. So I got in touch with my cousin, who managed to send me a regaton – see the pic below!

The title is a bit misleading, I don’t have an ambitious plan to bring the Salto del Pastor to Portugal and create a successful club here, but I do plan on practising the sport here. Why? Firstly as I live in Central Portugal, the Viseu region, I see plenty of mountains that I imagine could be great locations to wonder with a ‘garotte’. The type of terrain in the Canary Islands is completely different to the mountains of Central Portugal so I have doubts The Shepherds Leap would be safe on all mountain side and surfaces, but I’m certain there are pockets of places nearby to me where I could climb or descend some great areas, hard to do without a stick.
Secondly, I’m half a Canary Islander (my Dads side) so learning and practising an ancient tradition exclusively from the Canary Islands would help satisfy that part of myself that needs to feel included in generation meaning. Could this be a technique and sport I pass on to my son?

The first major hurdle, especially for someone like myself who is DIY useless, with has soft hands, is how the hell do I get a garotte in the first place? I cant have it sent to Portugal as the stick can be between 3-4 metres long so how would that be transported, and how much would it cost?
Can I find one in the Iberian peninsula, that could be easier to send, or perhaps I would pick it up?