Ethnosport Cultural Festival
ethnosport cultural festival day sport culture festival held annually sporting cultural activity anatolia central asia greater turkic world also japanese middle eastern held festival yenikapi square transformed traditional looking turkic central asian village traditional tent traditional sport field horse area horse involved edition tent set different turkic country community th tent qatar edition traditional craft dance among workshop given tent around festival ground athlete participated ethnosports latest rd edition third edition different ethnosports athlete compete include aba wrestling shalwar wrestling brace wrestling oil wrestling mounted archery third edition yabusame traditional japanese horseback archery falcon racing also featured oil wrestling sport two opponent covered olive oil wrestle due olive oil gripping opponent made much difficult thus ad level complexity sport compared non oiled grecoroman wrestling said practiced ancient year ago least practiced since ottoman conquest rumelia originally wrestling would continue one wrestler overpowered however later point system added first oil wrestling tournament lasted day said final round two brother wrestled neither one able outplay ended dying exhaustion kırkpınar tournament continues today spirit wrestling take place grassy patch earth designated turkisher meydanı considered inseparable part turkish culture opponent sport wrestle barefoot wearing shalwar turkishkuşak güreşi̇ crimeanküreş sport jarids used horseback archery horseback game consist player placing goat cow anklebone center circle knocking different variant played game kazakhkokpar kökbörü type wrestling wrestler wear abes back ma wrestling aka ağaç güreşi literally tree wrestling çubuk çekme literally rod pulling yakut national sport done flat nonslippery platform middle platform plank strongly fixed platform side two opponent sit either side plank foot plank put arm forward hold rod together using virtually muscle body pull rod event organised world ethnosports federation sponsored anadolu agency event taken place yenikapi istanbul every year festival new slogan horse belongs ride sword gird world nomad game ethnosport world ethnosports federation