Ancient Turkic sport to be in spotlight of Israeli media
By Laman Ismayilova
The Israeli media with the assistance of AZIZ will publish materials about the ancient Turkic sport – alpagut.
Alpagut is an ancient Turkic sport with its canons, traditions and philosophy. Alpagut consists of two words- Alp which means warrior and "kulsal "(Holy).
President of the Alpagut Federation in Azerbaijan Agil Adjalov and CEO of the International Association Azerbaijan-Israel (AZIZ) Lev Spivak discussed the publication of relevant stories in the Israeli media along with considering prospects for development of friendly relations between Azerbaijan and Israel in various areas, Trend Life reported.
A certain work will also be carried out to the raise awareness about ancient Turkic sport.
Preserving its uniqueness Alpagut could retain its relevance nowadays. A lot of alpagut sports schools were opened in Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgia, Australia, Iran, USA, Canada, Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
The ancient sport which combines mixed Turkic martial arts consists of three systems: Aypara, Batur, and Jima.
The first one is similar to full contact karate, but there are also grabs and throws. The Batur system is similar to the fighting. However, it is not allowed to fight on the ground more than 20 seconds.
The Jaimas system is similar with K1 and Thaiboxing.
The fighting usually takes place in the wolf and falcon circle. Wolf and falcon circles are the totem that belongs to the Turkic world. The fighting lasts 9 minutes.
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