Koke bar challenges

Tingyea Aloo: Before the game even gets started the Koke bar players have a few sporting events to show their unique skills off to the crowd. In the first challenge, men race their horses full speed down the track, leaning over to pick up small red balls of cloth. These pictures make it look easy, but several of even the experienced guys almost fell off. Moreover the challenge is to not just pick up one ball, but a quick series of them down the track. Only one man got them all. These are the men on the field who are responsible to pick the sheep’s body off the ground.

Loodapr Spak: The second challenge deals was for the defenders of the team. Stripped to the waist, each man had a heavy rope tied around his waist. With one hand on the reins and his horsewhip in his mouth, the challenge was to pull the other man from the saddle. In one occasion the men were so equally matched that the judge told them to start using their whips on one another!