202 Java Rd
Nooitgedacht, 2190
South Africa
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** NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY **
An introduction to the sport of mounted archery with ShaTranj Mounted Archery!
Expect to learn more about …:
– history of mounted archery (historical & new)
– equipment (theory & practical)
– horse desensitisation & introduction to mounted archery
– foot archery
– mounted archery (beginners)
COSTS:
Bringing your own bow & horse: R450 (only 3 outside horses permitted)
Bringing a horse, needs bow: R550
Bringing a bow, needs a horse: R650 (only 3 horses available)
Foot archery (no riding): R250
Spectator: R100
BOOK: email proof of payment to info@nullneigh-bours.co.za to book your spot, please tell us your CELL NUMBER when you book!
PAYMENT:
Name: Neigh-Bours
Bank: Nedbank
Branch: Broadacres Dainfern
Branch Code: 132805 (or 13280500 for Standard Bank users)
Account Number: 1010719874
Reference: Archery + your name
BRING:
• Food and water buckets for your horse/s & grooms.
• There is no catering available, please bring a cooler box and snacks if you want them
• A camping chair
ABOUT ShaTranj Mounted Archery:
ShaTranj is dedicated to the promotion, understanding, development and training of athletes, both horse and rider, on the various diciplines and variations thereof that are found in the modern Mounted Archery arena.
ABOUT MOUNTED ARCHERY:
A horse archer is a cavalryman armed with a bow, able to shoot while riding from horseback. In large open areas, it was a highly successful technique for protecting the herds, and for war. It was a defining characteristic of the Eurasian nomads during antiquity and the medieval period, as well as the Iranian peoples (Scythians, Sarmatians, Parthians, Sassanid Persians) and Indians in antiquity, and by the Mongols and the Turkic peoples during the Middle Ages. By the expansion of these peoples, the practice also spread to Eastern Europe (via the Sarmatians and the Huns), to Mesopotamia, and to East Asia. In East Asia, horse archery came to be particularly honoured in the samurai tradition of Japan, where horse archery is called Yabusame.
The term mounted archer occurs in medieval English sources to describe a soldier who rode to battle but who dismounted to shoot. In the modern English usage, however, “mounted archer” and “horse archer” are essentially interchangeable terms
Horse archery developed separately among the peoples of the South American pampas and the North American prairies; the Comanches were especially skilled.