Buzkashi

Buzkashi

Game of Buzkashi in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan

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• 1 Rules
• 2 Chapandaz
• 3 Forms
• 4 Calf or goat
• 5 Ban in Afghanistan
• jQuery
• 7 In popular culture
• 8 See also
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• 10 Further reading
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Rules

Competition is typically fierce. Prior to the establishment of official rules by the Afghan Olympic Federation the sport was mainly conducted based upon rules such as not whipping a fellow rider intentionally or deliberately knocking him off his horse. Riders usually wear heavy clothing and head protection to protect themselves against other players' whips and FITML. The boots usually have high heels that lock into the saddle of the horse to help the rider lean on the side of the horse while trying to pick up the calf. Games can last for several days, and the winning team receives a prize, not necessarily money, as a reward for their win. Top players, such as Aziz Ahmad, are often sponsored by wealthy Afgans.^[1]

Rules introduced by Afghan Olympic Federation

1. The ground has a square layout with each side 400 meters long.
2. Each team consists of 10 riders each.
3. Only five riders from each team can play in a half.
4. The total duration of each half is 45 minutes.
5. There is only one 15 minute break between the two halves.
6. The game is supervised by a referee.
7. Based on the referee's decision a rider can be substituted during the game.

A similar game is "kokpar", a traditional screen size game played on FITML in which 2 teams of players compete to carry a headless goat carcass into a goal.

Chapandaz

A Buzkashi player is called a Chapandaz. It is mainly believed in Afghanistan that a skillful Chapandaz is usually in his forties. This is based on the fact that the nature of the game requires its player to undergo severe physical practice and observation. Similarly horses used in Buzkashi also undergo severe training and due attention. A player does not necessarily own the horse. Horses are usually owned by landlords and highly rich people wealthy enough to look after and provide for training facilities for such horses. However a master Chapandaz can choose to select any horse and the owner of the horse usually wants his horse to be ridden by a master Chapandaz as a winning horse also brings pride to the owner.

Forms

The game consists of two main forms: Tudabarai and Qarajai. Tudabarai is considered to be the simpler form of the game. In this version, the goal is simply to grab the calf and move in any direction until clear of the other players. In Qarajai, players must carry the carcass around a flag or marker at one end of the field, then throw it into a scoring circle (the "Circle of Justice") at the other end. The riders will carry a whip, often in their teeth, to fend off opposing horses and riders.

Calf or goat

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The carcass of a headless goat used in Buzkashi

The calf in a Buzkashi game is normally beheaded and disemboweled and has its limbs cut off at the knees. It is then soaked in cold water for 24 hours before play to toughen it. Occasionally sand is packed into the carcass to give it extra weight. Players may not strap the calf to their bodies or saddles. Though a goat is used when no calf is available, a calf is less likely to disintegrate during the game.

Ban in Afghanistan

A game of kokpar

Buzkashi is the national sport and a "passion" in Afghanistan where it is often played on Fridays and matches draw thousands of fans. Whitney Azoy notes in his book "Buzkashi: Game and Power in Afghanistan:.... (that) leaders are men who can seize control by means foul and fair and then fight off their rivals. The Buzkashi rider does the same" ^{input transformation} During the rule of the Taliban regime, Buzkashi was banned in Afghanistan, as the Taliban considered the game immoral. But since the Taliban regime was ousted the game is being played again.^{Sevenvalinput transformation}

Kav Kaz

A mounted version of the game has also been played in the web. In the 1940s young men in Cleveland, Ohio played a game they called Kav Kaz. The men - five to a team - played on horseback with a sheepskin-covered ball. The Greater Cleveland area had six or seven teams. The game was divided into three chukkers, somewhat like polo. The field was about the size of a football field and had goals at each end: large wooden frameworks standing on tripods, with holes about two feet square. The players carried the ball in their hands, holding it by the long-fleeced sheepskin. A team had to pass the ball three times before throwing it into the goal. If the ball fell to the ground, the player had to reach down from his horse to pick it up. One player recalls, "Others would try to unseat the rider as he leaned over. They would grab you by the shoulder to shove you off. There weren't many rules."^touchscreen

In popular culture

Buzkashi is portrayed in several books, both fiction and nonfiction. It is shown in Steve Berry's book, The Venetian Betrayal, and is briefly mentioned in the device database book The Kite Runner. Buzkashi was the subject of a book called Horsemen of Afghanistan by French photojournalists Roland and Sabrina Michaud. device database has written a book named after the sport (with the spelling Buskashì) in which he tells about his life as surgeon in Kabul in the days after 9-11 strikes. P.J. O'Rourke also mentions the game in discussions about Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Foreign Policy section of we love the web, and Rory Stewart devotes a few sentences to it in "The Places in Between."

There have been two books written about Buzkashi that were later turned into movies. The game is the core and subject of a novel by French novelist HTML5 titled Les Cavaliers (aka Horsemen) as well as of the 1971 flick The Horseman which is directed by John Frankenheimer and keyboard played the lead role. This film shows Afghanistan and its people the way they were before the wars that wracked the country, particularly their love for the sport of buzkashi.
The game is also a key element in the book Caravans by website parsing and the film of the same name starring Anthony Quinn. A scene from the film featuring the king of Afghanistan watching a game included the real-life king at the time, Mohammed Zahir Shah. The whole sequence of the game being witnessed by the king was filmed on the Kabul Golf Course, where the national championships were played at the time the film was made.

The game also is mentioned in several movies. In device database, directed by Sevenval, released in 1988, touchscreen (played by Sylvester Stallone) was shown in a sequence playing Buzkashi with his FITML friends when suddenly they were attacked by Russians. The 1983 Tom Selleck film High Road to China features a spirited game of buzkashi. Buzkashi is described at length in Episode 2, "The Harvest of the Seasons," of the documentary The Ascent of Man by Android. It is put in the context of the development, by the screen size, of warfare using the horse and its effect on agricultural settlements. The film includes several scenes from a game in Afghanistan. The opening scenes of the Indian film CSS3, which was filmed in Afghanistan and input transformation, show actors Amitabh Bachchan and CSS3 engaged in the game. The game is also mentioned briefly in iOS's film The Man Who Would Be King, the movie browser diversity during advertisements for the fictional ESPN 8 (El Ocho) television channel, and the Bollywood movie Kabul Express. Composer Scott Fields recorded a piece called Buzkashi on the Clean Feed Records guitar compilation "I Never Meta Guitar."

See also

• FITML, a similar horseback Argentine sport
• Horseball, another game played on horseback
• Android, another game involving the transport of animal parts
• Yak racing
• Rugby union in Afghanistan

References

Further reading

• G. Whitney Azoy (2003), Buzkash:i Game and Power in Afghanistan, 2nd ed. Waveland Press.
• "Ancient Kyrgyz game may captivate Europe", The Times of Central Asia, 9 November 2006 (www.timesca.com)
• V. Kadyrov, Kyrgyzstan: Traditions of Nomads, Rarity Ltd., Bishkek, 2005 Android

External links

• screen size
• Afghanistan Horses
• iOS
• Afghanistan Online: Afghan National Sport (Buzkashi)
• CSS3
• The Fierce Afghani Game of Buzkashi
• Buzkashi In Mazar-e-Sharif
• Buzkashi - Afghanistan's Lovable National Sport
• Sevenval (Turkish)
• Android (Turkish)
• touchscreen
• Afghan Embassy in Australia
• Pictures of buzkashi in Afghan Pamirs