00:04More than 3,000 sportsmen from 109 countries were competing in World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan this year.
00:11What was once Central Asia's attempt to preserve nomad traditions and skills turned into a sports event attracting interest from
00:17every continent.
00:18Historically born from battlefield training, hunting and nomadic survival needs, these sports build strength, endurance, agility and spiritual unity.
00:28Today they are just sports, but more than a pastime, they are also the show of national identity, history and
00:34continuation of nomadic traditions.
00:37Welcome to Kazakhstan, welcome to modern nomads.
00:43Since time immemorial, nomad skills played crucial social role among the steppe people.
00:49Every gathering of tribesmen, including contests in which men were able to boast their masculinity.
00:54It's only a thing that the national sport of the world was a sport, that is the world of Kazakh
01:02Ajahn.
01:05I mean, for example, sometimes it's a couple of old people.
01:10I mean, for example, we have a lot of fun and fun to come together, we were a lot together,
01:18but we can be a big deal.
01:20Non si è un po' di più.
01:22Non si è un sport nazionale,
01:26non si è un po' di più.
01:29Il sport in the Nomad Games competed in 43 disciplini.
01:33Il quelli che chiedono l'esplorazione e l'esplorazione
01:35e la fortuna di un'esplorio e il suo rider
01:36ha preso la grande gradazione pubblica.
01:39La cultura nazionale è inseparabile da l'esplorio.
01:42Le games equestri sono più popolari
01:44e sono sempre parte di un'evento e festeggi.
01:47The most popular is Kazakh Kokhbar, described in the 19th century by the American diplomat Eugene Skyler
01:54as a game in which one man holds a goat thrown over his saddle and everyone else tries to tear
02:00it from him.
02:25The version of Kokhbar, which is traditional in Kyrgyzstan, is called Kokhboru.
02:29In case you thought it was easy, this dummy that the players so casually pick up from the ground with
02:34one hand actually weighs 30 to 35 kilos.
02:45Horse races in Central Asia emphasize stamina over speed and the horses run up to 21 km.
02:51There is even a 300 km marathon. The winning jockeys, often as young as 9, win valuable prizes.
02:57But to be a real hero, it's not enough just to know how to ride.
03:01This is how there is Kokhboru, horseback wrestling, probably the best example of how ancient nomadic warrior skills transformed into
03:08sports.
03:09Two men trying to unseat each other from the saddle.
03:16The youth championship we saw, proves the tradition is alive and getting more popular.
03:23We have won the championship in Kazakhstan.
03:26We have won the championship in the world and in the world.
03:48Each nation in Central Asia has their own variant of wrestling, with different names, rules, uniforms and rituals.
03:55And for those who prefer precision to strength, there's archery.
03:58It also comes in many forms, where Turkish and European are for infantry longbows,
04:03while nomad archery suits traditional cavalry strike-and-run tactics.
04:21There are many other sports that used to entertain nomad herdsmen during long step evenings,
04:29and they're all being popularized as part of the struggle to renew national identity.
04:33With that, we have to use certain sports, with certain sports.
04:39So we can use certain sports what we have to do with our military.
04:40With that, our culture has been working on it.
04:41However, the best way of the world-led sport is world-led sport,
04:44the world-led flag, the world-led flag of the nation is part of the world-led flag-for-led
04:49flag-for-led flag.
04:51We can use тогда people's world-led flag of the world-led flag-for-led flag-for-led flag-for
04:55-led flag.
04:55Grazie.
