Altes Kavallerie-Spiel „Zelt-Pegging“ Reiter in Southport, Merseyside, 31.03.2024. Eine Gruppe von Männern spielt ihren Lieblingssport am Strand von Southport in der wunderschönen Ostersonne. Das Spiel, in Pakistan auch als Neza Bazi bekannt, ist eine Reitersportart uralten Ursprungs und ist eine von nur zehn von der International Equestrian Federation offiziell anerkannten Reitdisziplinen. Quelle: Cernan Elias/Alamy Live News
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31. März 2024
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Southport, UK
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Tent pegging (sometimes spelt tent-pegging or tentpegging) is a cavalry sport of ancient origin and is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation. Used narrowly, the term refers to a specific mounted game with ground targets. More broadly, it refers to the entire class of mounted cavalry games involving pointed and edged weapons (lance and sword) on horseback, for which the term "equestrian skill-at-arms" is also used. Origin Cavaliers have practised the specific game of tent pegging since at least the 4th century BC. Eurasian empires spread the game around the world. As a result, the game's date and location of origin are ambiguous.[1] In all accounts, the competitive sport evolved out of cavalry training exercises designed to develop cavaliers' prowess with the sword and lance from horseback. However, whether tent pegging developed cavaliers' generic skills or prepared them for specific combat situations is unclear.[2] According to the International Equestrian Federation, "most equestrian authorities are of the opinion that tent-pegging originated in the Indian subcontinent during the middle ages in the battlefields as a tactics used by the horsed cavalry against elephant mounted troops"[3] A cavalier able to precisely stab the highly sensitive flesh behind an elephant's toenail would cause the enemy elephant to rear, unseat his mahout, and possibly run amok, breaking ranks and trampling infantry. The term "tent pegging" is certainly related to the idea that cavalry mounting a surprise pre-dawn raid on an enemy camp could use the tent-pegging skills to sever or uproot tent pegs, collapsing the tents on their sleeping occupants and sowing havoc and terror in the camp. However, there are few reliable accounts of a cavalry squadron ever employing such tactics.
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