Kendo from "Young Japan. Yokohama and Yedo. A Narrative of the Settlement and the City from the Signing of the Treaties in 1858, to the Close of the Year 1879" by John Reddie Black (1826-1880), born in Scotland but lived most of his life in China and Japan.
Source (text and photo): https://pl.pinterest.com/pin/2462974779633136/
New article in the Encyclopedia of Traditional Sports!
Evala – traditional sport from Togo
Two larger chess boards: an 9 by 8 board on the floor and an 8 by 10 board in the hand of one of the brawlers.
For the Tibetan people, horses are a significant part of their daily lives and culture. Multiple breeds (including the Tibetan pony and the Riwoche) have been developed to suit the various needs of the people, including food, riding, racing and load-bearing. For the Khampas, a nomadic group of Tibetans who still live more or less the same way they have for millennia, the horse is central to their way of life. So it’s no surprise that when the time comes to celebrate, horses take centre stage!
Every summer, the town of Litang in the Sichuan provice of China (previously part of Tibet) hosts the Litang Horse Racing Festival. Over three days, the alpine town morphs into a giant carnival ground, with horse races, mounted games, stunt riding, yak races (yep!), singing, dancing, trading, fashion parades, rites and ceremonies, and whatever else the nomads deem fit!
Source of text and photo: https://www.globetrotting.com.au/litang-horse-racing-festival/
Photos: Marc Ressang/The Diplomat, Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing.
Announcement on a wall in Via Dante Alighieri in Florence. It is forbidden to play ball or any other game near the abbey under pain of severe penalties. Although the information comes from old times, but it hangs on the wall all the time.
Welcome Fédération des Sports et Jeux Normands (France), a new Partner who joins the group of Traditional Sports Partners.
The Valdostana Rebatta Association was founded in 1957 in Valle d'Aosta (a small autonomous region located in the north-west of Italy on the border with France and Switzerland) to organise, support and promote the game of Rebatta, an ancient and typical discipline for throwing ball with stick.
Among many peoples in the world, the Mapuche is a people who stood out for their use of the Wayki, the spear. The Wayki, an element of delicate manufacture, made of noble wood, hard wood, and apellinated.
All Mapuche had their wayki and they were kept at the door of the ruka ready to be used in case of danger. It was placed at the entrance because it had to be readily available.
The Waykitun was an ancestral practice that, at the same time as a martial art, was a practice similar to a sport, which is why everyone had their own and had to learn how to use it.
Mapuche soldiers practiced various combat techniques (slingshot, arrow, hand-to-hand combat, etc.), but the best known is the waykitun.
Source of photo: https://www.mhn.gob.cl/galeria/fotografia-y-dibujos-de-claude-joseph
International Fight Kickboxing Federation's Arbitration Stag Held
On Friday 2023/2/24 at the Central Academy of the International Fight Kickboxing Federation, the against the presence of more than 73 members of the Arbitration Steage Federation was held by Dr. Arash Es'haghi theoretically and practically for 4 hours.
International Fight Kickboxing Federation is a Partner of Traditional Sports.
New article in the Encyclopedia of Traditional Sports – Donga, traditional sport from Ethiopia
On the website of traditional sports www.traditionalsports.org we have posted an article about donga - traditional sport of Ethiopia: http://www.traditionalsports.org/traditional-sports/africa/donga-ethiopia.html
In the article: information about sport, photos, sources of information. We are looking for contact in Ethiopia and with anyone who can supplement information about donga.
If you want to add or correct something, add photos, videos or any information, we are waiting for your suggestion and materials:
On the photo is the tombstone of the famous XVII century undefeated prize fighter and wrestler ADRIAN LUCAS of Bluntisham, Hunts., England
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L'AEJeST A 20 ANS !!!!
Le 28 avril 2001 a été un grand jour pour les Jeux et Sports traditionnels. Après quinze ans d'expériences communes et de nombreuses réflexions, cinquante personnes de plusieurs pays européens se sont réunies à Lesneven-Bretagne-France, et ont convenu de créer l'Association européenne des jeux et sports traditionnels. Guy Jaouen a été élu président, les statuts ont été rédigés à Santander le 1er novembre et enfin elle a été enregistrée à la Préfecture de Brest le 8 janvier 2002.
The Bull-Leaping Fresco
The most famous image of bull-leaping is probably the Bull-Leaping Fresco from the palace at Knossos, Crete, Greece. The fresco was painted around 1400 BCE, and depicts a young man
We invite you to learn about the sport of traditional Mexico - Carrera de Arihueta (Rohueliami)
http://www.traditionalsports.org/traditional-sports/north-america/carrera-de-arihueta-mexico.html
We continue our list of traditional sports, today the letter Q.
We encourage you to jointly create a list of traditional sports. If you know other traditional sports starting with the letter Q, if there are such sports in your culture, please include their name in the comment, and we will certainly add this name to the list.
We invite you! Join, share, distribute, comment. Traditional sports are our common heritage.
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Dear Friends,
I am happy to share with you a unique historical document which is dated July 15th, 1793. It is the original XVIII century ruleset of Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling which goes under the name of "The Laws of Wrestling as established in the North of England." This ruleset appeared in the July 1793 issue of "The Sporting Magazine" on Pages 245-246. Enjoy the read.
OPPORTUNITY: fostering social inclusion and gender equality in formal and nonformal educational contexts through applying traditional sports and games
Start: 01-01-2021 - End: 31-12-2023
Project Reference: 622100-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-SPO-SCP
Programme: Erasmus+
Key Action: Sport
Action Type: Collaborative Partnerships
01/31/2021 Buzkashi competition in Balkh province, Mazar Sharif, Bozkshi Square, Azadi Town, Afghanistan.
National Buzkashi and Local Sports Federation, Afghanistan is a member of the Traditional Sports Partners Team. It's great that we can work together to promote Buzkashi.
Bagchal is probably the most popular traditional board game from Nepal. Bagchal literally means "Tiger's Move" in Nepali. Four tigers and 20 goats compete to win the game. Tigers want to hunt all goats; goats want to trap all the tigers.
Illustration of the patolli game from the book Historia universal de nuova España Bernardino de Sahaguna from 1545
Foot Ball, Kingston-upon-Thames, Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 24th, 1846
Game Of Hounds And Jackals, 1814-1805 BC
Period : Middle Kingdom
Dynasty : 12
Reign : Amenemhat IV
Geography : Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Assasif, Birabi, pit tomb CC 25, debis, Canavations / Carter excavation ,1910
Medium: Ebony, Ivory
Discovered By: Howard Carter in the tomb of Reniseneb
Credit Line : Edward S. Harkness Gift 1926
The Egyptian Game is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York
‘Olinda Keliya’ is a board game also known as Mancala games where a wooden board known as “Olinda Kolombuwa” or “Olinda Poruwa” which has several holes is used. The rules can differ from area to area, but the game is normally played by two players seated on either side of the board. On either side of the poruwa there are usually nine holes in which are placed four beads each. The beads are Olinda seeds that can be found in abundance in villages.
The players have to shift the beads from one hole to the other and collect the seeds found in the hole immediately after an empty one. Ultimately the player who could collect the largest amount of olinda beads becomes the winner of the game.
The ‘Olinda Kolumbuwa’ also showcases the creativity of Sri Lankan traditional wood carvers. These boards are usually made of ebony (kaluwara) wood and beautifully carved. Most of these boards that are with families were designed during the Kandyan period. There is also a large collection of these boards in the Colombo Museum indicating how popular the game must have been in those days. ‘Olinda Keliya’ is also special, since it is mainly played by the women of the house while other traditional games are played mainly by men.
However, the most attractive element of this game is the shiny little red and black seed – Olinda. Crab’s eye is its common English name while the seed is also known as Jequirity, Rosary Pea or Indian licorice. The scientific name is Abrus precatorius. Olinda is a slender creeper that can grow large if the conditions are right. The vine has long, pinnate-leafleted leaves.
Sasanian Die, Period - Sasanian, Date - ca. 3rd–7th century A.D., Iran, Qasr-i Abu Nasr - Near Shiraz
Cubic dice have been in use in the Near East since the 3rd millennium B.C. with different systems of distributing the points. The numbering of the opposite sides (1-6, 2-5, 3-4) adding up to seven comes into more general use only later, as reflected by this die from Qasr-i Abu Nasr.
The small town and fortress of Qasr-i Abu Nasr is located near Shiraz in southern Iran at a strategic point at the intersection of defensive mountains, available water sources, and along roads entering the Shiraz plain. The site was excavated by archaeologists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art for three seasons from 1932-1935. The town was occupied, at least intermittently, from the Parthian period (3rd century B.C.–3rd century A.D.) to the Muzaffarid period (13th-14th century A.D.). The major occupation, including the extensive fortress, dates to the Late Sasanian period (6th-7th century A.D.).
Ten Giant Warriors. Wood Carving of Angampora, the Wrestling-Based Traditional Martial Art of Sri Lanka. (Embekka Devalaya Temple, Sri Lanka)
Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924)
First published in 1908
Pages 514-528
DOVER'S MEETING.-WHITSUN SPORTS.
(To the Editor of the Mirror.)
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 7 Edited by John Timbs, London, 1828 Pages 354-355
‘Boxer at Rest’ - a rare Hellenistic bronze sculpture from 330 BC to 50 BC.
The bronze statue of the Pugile delle Terme or Pugile del Quirinale, is a 128 cm high Greek sculpture, attributed to Lisippo or his circle. It is considered to be one of the finest examples of Hellenistic bronze sculptures, due to its realism, and the vivid emotions that it displays.
He is an athlete in a moment of rest that powerfully transmits all the effort of the fight; the realism of the scars on the face, the flattened nasal septum and the ears deformed by the blows suffered in who knows how many fights (this man was almost certainly deaf from the trauma suffered) tell the story of the hard life of the Pankration wrestlers. The statue, found at the foot of the Quirinale in 1885, was probably part of the thermal complex of Constantine, was intentionally and carefully taken in and placed on a large capital. Some parts are shiny, a sign of the contact of the hands that for centuries have shown devotion for this Hercules bent by fatigue and suffering, but superhuman, and therefore revered as a God.
THE ROOTS OF MODERN WRESTLING
Evolution of the Catch-Hold Wrestling on the Continent.
Folk wrestling styles of Frankish heritage.
By Ruslan C Pashayev
