Koke bar: Big men, big horses, a dead sheep, and no rules!

The KZ people are believed to be the first to have domesticated the horse and their skills are incredible. In Kokebar two teams of five men on horseback fight over the headless, hoofless body of sheep (weighing 80lbs or more) and attempt to run it back and fling it into their goal. The horses are used as the shield, the sword, and the back to carry all at once. In more extreme versions there are huge numbers of men fighting in chaos without rules! In The bookseller of Kabul by Äsne Seierstad, the wilder version is described as it is also played in Afghanistan, under the name of buzkashi. The game, she reports, was brought by the Mongols under Gehngis Khan.