Kozlodranie

Today I want to tell you about a very unusual game popular among the peoples of Central Asia - Kozlodranie. Externally it is very similar to polo, but instead of a ball used headless carcass of a sacrificial animal. The principle of the game is as simple as that of almost any other more than we are used to playing with the ball or puck. The main similarity between them - a judge with a whistle, the main difference - that the judge on horseback. Gates represent a hole with a diameter of two meters, with earthen sides. We must at all costs to take over the carcass of a goat, keep it and throw in the (gate) pit enemy.





Entertainment begins from the moment of playing. Player of one team stands above the goat and tries to pick it up, and the player of the other team prevents this. Namely, with all the dope his horse knocks rises from the place that he reached for the goat.



















Sometimes the goat can not be off the ground for a long time and delayed enactment. It should be noted that the carcass weighs a lot, around 50 kg, and the need to raise it with one hand, much overhang from his horse. Therefore rozygryvanii almost always involved flagship players, looking at the face and figure that, once you understand that a serious dude:-) This is usually the team captain.
If you raise the goat does not have time to escape quickly towards the gates of the enemy, broke away from the prosecution, the goat immediately try to take away from him. The process of pulling too may be delayed.





Shoot the process and dynamics of the game hard because most of the time we see a mess of men or horses.



But sometimes it is possible to see how the team lined up in the correct and beautiful battle formations. Here we see the aspirant to the gates of the enemy flagship player with a goat, cover the sides of teammates and not lagging rivals, ready at the first opportunity to join in the fight for a goat or even prevent (score) to throw the goat into his own pit. < br />
If the cover is not present, the pursuers overlap mercilessly



Combat unit, carrying a goat looks



A combat units, which fell from their horses look like this. Kirghiz incredibly bravely suffer a fall from a horse. Ambulance on duty, but no one needed medical care.











And some viewers look so



Given all the difficulties faced by a player on the way to the gate, the goals are quite rare, but it does happen



















And playing this game in Kyrgyzstan and young and old



Source: prophotos-ru.livejournal.com