07 basque culture and heritage - sports

8

Upload: oianguren-bhi

Post on 30-Jun-2015

62 views

Category:

Education


2 download

DESCRIPTION

Series of presentations about Basque Culture and Language within the "Puzzling Pieces of the European Puzzle" Comenius project (2011-2013) Basque Culture, music & dance, history, origins, art, and so on. "Puzzling Pieces of the European Puzzle" Comenius proiektuaren (2011-2013) barruan egindako aurkezpenak. Euskal kultura, musika, historia eta ezaugarriak tratatzen dituzten aurkezpenak.

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports
Page 2: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports

In this presentation we are going to show you some of the many sports which people practise in the Basque Country. The most important of all of them are:

•Trainerak (rowing competitons)•Aizkora proba (wood chopping)•Harri jasotzea (stone heaving)•Eskupilota (Basque pelota)

This is another typical Basque sport , called lasto jasotzea

Page 3: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports

This sport hails back to the days when fishermen had to reach fishing grounds quickly and return to port as quickly as possible to achieve the best price.

The crew is made up of thirteen oarsmen and the Coach. The boats are called traineru.

This is the most important competition in this area that is called “kontxako bandera” that takes part in San Sebastian

Page 4: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports

This kind of boat was used when Basque fishermen used to go whale hunting to Newfoundland.

Page 5: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports

This rural sport more commonly known as aizkolaritza, from the Basque word for a wood-cutter. This is a very popular sport today but its origins are to be found in the rural wood cutting. In this competition, the wood cutter has to chop through a number of tree trunks arranged on the ground in rows as quickly as possible while standing on the log to beat his competitors.

Page 6: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports

There are usually two stone-heavers competing in each event, taking turns in one or several attempts, to perform the greatest possible number of lifts. A lift is considered complete when the stone has been properly balanced on the shoulder.

The stones are traditionally made of granite, their weight normally ranging from 100 kg to 212 kg.

This is Iñaki Perurena the most famous Basque stone-heaver.

Page 7: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports

But the main innovation of Basque pilota is that players share a common playground and throw the ball to a wall, making it an indirect game, while the other games in this family are generally direct games where the players face each other in two separate fields separated by a net or line on the ground.

The red t-shirt man is Aratz Mendizabal a pilota player from Zaldibia near

Ordizia.

Page 8: 07 Basque culture and heritage - Sports

This is called ziaboga when the trainera turns around a buoy.

This is zesta punta a pilota´s similar sport This is called Harri jasotzaile