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Tent pegging (sometimes spelled "tentpegging" or "tent-pegging") is a cavalry sport of ancient origin, and one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation. Used narrowly, the term refers to a specific mounted game involving ground targets, but used more broadly, it refers to the entire class of mounted cavalry games involving edged weapons on horseback. Cavalry is also a common misspelling of the Biblical hill Calvary. ...
The Fédération Equestre Internationale (commonly known as the FEI, or informally in English as the International Equestrian Federation) is the international governing body of equestrian (horse) sports. ...
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The specific game of tent pegging has a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and using a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a small ground target (a symbolic tent peg) or a series of small ground targets. Swiss longsword, 15th or 16th century Sword (from Old English sweord, cognate to Old High German swert, literally wounding tool from a Proto-Indo-European root *swer- to wound, to hurt) is a term for a long-edged, bladed weapon, consisting in its most fundamental design of a blade, usually...
The term lance has become a catchall for a variety of different pole weapons based on the spear. ...
The broader class of tent pegging games also includes ring jousting (a galloping rider tries to pass the point of his weapon through a suspended ring); lemon sticking (the rider tries to stab or slice a lemon suspended from a cord or sitting on a platform); quintain tilting (the rider charges a mannequin mounted on a swivelling or rocking pedestal); and parthian (i.e. mounted) archery. This article is about the 1982 arcade game. ...
Quintain (O. Fr. ...
Reproduction of a Parthian warrior as depicted on Trajans Column The Parthian Empire was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE. Origins Bust of Parthian soldier, Esgh-abad Museum, Turkmenia. ...
These arrows score as an inner 10, and a 9 Archery is the practice of using a bow to shoot arrows. ...
In a given tent pegging competition, there may be rules specifying the size and composition of the target; the number of consecutive targets placed on a course; the dimensions and weight of the sword, lance, or bow; the minimum time in which a course must be covered; and the extent to which a target must be struck, cut, or carried.
Origins Cavaliers have practiced the specific game of tent pegging since at least the 4th century BC, and the advance of cavalry from Asian and later European empires spread the game around the world. As a result, the game's date and location of origin are ambiguous.
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, the question of whether tent pegging developed cavaliers' generic skills or prepared them for specific combat situations is shrouded in anecdote and national chauvinism.
The most widely accepted theory is that the game originated in medieval India, as a training tool for horse mounted cavaliers facing elephant cavalry. Because the flesh behind an elephant's toenail is highly sensitive, a horse cavalier who is able to use his weapon precisely to stab that area would cause the enemy elephant to rear, unseat his mahout, and possibly run amuck, breaking his own ranks and trampling his own infantry. A mahout is a person who drives an elephant. ...
The term "tent pegging" is, however, certainly related to the idea that cavaliers mounting a surprise pre-dawn raid on an enemy camp could use the game's skills to sever or uproot tent pegs, thus collapsing the tents on their sleeping occupants and sowing havoc and terror in the camp, which would make it easier for infantry to defeat the camp inhabitants. However, there are few reliable accounts of a cavalry squadron ever employing such tactics.
Because the specific game of tent pegging is the most popular mounted skill-at-arms game, the entire class of sports became known as tent pegging during the twilight of cavalry in the twentieth century.
Modern Sport Today, tent pegging sports are practiced around the world, but are especially active in India, Pakistan, South Africa, Israel, and the United Kingdom.
The Olympic Council of Asia included tent pegging as an official sport in 1982, and the International Equestrian Federation recognised the sport in 2004. The Asian Games, also called the Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. ...
See Also Cavalry is also a common misspelling of the Biblical hill Calvary. ...
A junior horse riding event at the Melbourne Show Equestrianism relates to the riding of horses. ...
Jousting is a staple entertainment at Renaissance Fairs. ...
Quintain (O. Fr. ...
References - "Tent pegging recognised by the FEI", International Equestrian Federation, 2004, retrieved 17 May 2006
- "Tent pegging with the Governor General's Horse Guards", GGHG Cavalier, 2006, retrieved 17 May 2006
- "EFI Tent Pegging Rules", EFI, (undated), retrieved 17 May 2006
External Links - International Equestrian Federation (FEI)
- Australian Tent Pegging Federation
- Equestrian Federation of India Tent Pegging
- Israeli Equestrian Federation Tent Pegging
- Netherlands Tent Pegging Association
- United States Tent Pegging Association
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