Is horse archery still practice in CA?

In mongolia the remotest tribes use hunting rifles, so I presume its the same in CA.

Originally posted by raygun Hi Zagros, thks for your reply. No doubt technology has caught up with them, just wondering why its not practiced since its part of thier heritage. Heard taht some Mongolians still do archery, and the Koreans are known to be very good too (the Olympics). Cheers

we (i speak for Turkey's Turkish people) do still practise horse-sports, like chirit, polo and such.

I know the Japanese practice horse archery...in Mongolia there is our Nadaam where archery is one of the main sports but its not from horseback.

I found more,

Oghlaq tartish,Uighur people

Oghlaq tartish,Uzbek people

Khazak people,Oghlaq tartish

horse race(Khazak)

Qiz quwar,Khazak

A Hungarian self-trained himself in the lost art of Hunnic horse archery and now runs a school in Hungary attracting Americans, Canadian, Europeans, Turks and Japanese wanting to learn the skill for personal or historic reasons or just for a hobby.

His name is Lajos Kassai, and has revived this once lost tradition which is prooving to be a popular sport.  Here are some pics of him and you can find several sites about him and his school if you Google him.

Originally posted by raygun Hey, Khazak people's Oghlaq tartish looks kinda similar to some Afghan folks game on horseback. Perhaps they were identical people? And what is the significance of Qiz quwar? Is it some kind of courtship riture?

Hi raygun,
sorry for the delay.Yes ,you are right,I found that Afghan people have the same stuff with Turkic Oghlaq tartish,and Tajik people(in the pamir upland) also has,but they ride jaks(or ox) instead of horses.

In our region,the rules of Oghlaq tartish is simple and same among Uighur,Khazak and Kyrgyz people.First someone offer a sheep or a goat to the villagers  as a sign of his son�s ceromony ,the sheep is killed and thrown to riders as a goal.everybody trys to go off with the sheep.After almost one day struggle, one who is stronger,has excellent riding technics and has fast running horse will win and  take the sheep.Sometimes  the winner  gives  the sheep back to the host-family,then the family gives him a present in order to show their respect.This is really a tough game,needs strength ,technic as well as endurance.As you see,you have to hold the sheep while running fast,in your both sides people are trying to grab it.often,the sheep drops to the ground and you have to pick it up.horses are tall and sheeps are heavy,imagine how difficult it is!

There is another way to play,the riders split up several groups,two to five in each, and stay together as a base camp, a couple riders stay several thousand meters away from the base as a distance limit.everytime each group rides strait to limit point with permission and rides back.Struggle goes on among each group in the running way.

The Qiz quwar is a game between a girl and a boy,they ride off same time with close distance,and the girl has right to beat the boy with her horsewhip while riding and fortunately there is a distance limit,only thing the boy can do is just try to escape.


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