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The Horsearcher DVD A Lovásíjász / Directed by Kaszás Géza / Not our Ancestros we must follow, but waht they had followed / Hungarian Documentary about Lajos Kassai
UPC 5999543391322
MADE IN HUNGARY
REGION 2 PAL DVD
Audio: Hungarian 5.1
Subtitles: English, German, Chinese, Mongolian, Russian
Runtime: 118 minutes
English Summary:
Lajos Kassai (born 16 September 1960), is a Hungarian bowyer, archer and equestrian. He is primarily known for his work reviving the traditional art of horse archery, including adapting it into a modern sport. For his work he received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.
Lajos Kassai originally worked as a mechanic, and only made bows as a hobby until the mid 1980s. During this time he reconstructed the Hungarian composite bow from the time of the Hungarian Conquest. Eventually bow-making became his primary profession, and he became the first in the world to mass-produce this style of bow. Besides Hungarian, Kassai makes other types of traditional bows, including Scythian, Magyar, Hun (asymmetric type), Avar, and Mongol.
Kassai created the competitive rule system of horse archery in the late 1980s, and started to propagate this new sport, first in Hungary, and from the 1990s in the rest of Europe, the United States and Canada. He made himself familiar with Zen-archery in Kamakura, Japan, and travelled to Shao-lin in China to study.
He summarized his experiences in his book "Horse archery", which since its issue has been translated into German, English and Russian.
He founded the center of Hungarian horse archery, Kassai-valley, near Kaposmérő. Horse archery centers based on the Kassai-school are currently operating in fourteen countries, and organize world cups regularly.
In 2011, the University of Physical Education accepted the education practice developed by Kassai and began horse archery training. Hungary is the first country in the world where one can get a teaching diploma in horse archery.
His life and work was dramatized by Géza Kaszás in the film A lovasíjász (The horse archer), which premiered in January 2016.
Hungarian Summary:
Mindezekről számtalan anyag található az írott és elektronikus médiában. Hasonló témával foglakozó könyve már több kiadást megért, több nyelvre lefordították. Kínában sztárként ünneplik mind a bemutatókon, mind a televízióban. Ha Hollywood olyan szuper produkciót forgat, amiben lovasíjászok szerepelnek, akkor őt kérik fel szakértőnek és ő tanítja be a sztárokat, mint a legutóbb Kínában forgatott filmben, Matt Damon-nak.
Alkotók / Staff
- Kassai Lajos Dr. Obrusánszky Borbála
- Major Csaba
- Kaszás Géza
- Gulya Róbert
- Mészáros Attila
- Tiszeker Dániel Pataki Ádám Dorcsák Gábor Harlon Sjamsudd
- Kaszás Géza
