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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: afx on September 11, 2016, 21:02:29

Title: The Ox Race
Post by: afx on September 11, 2016, 21:02:29

I went to see an ox race a few weeks ago.
Every ten years the Burschenverein Steinkirchen (http://www.bv-steinkirchen.de/) holds an ox race.
This is rural Bavaria, as good as it gets ;-)
(A Burschenverein is an association of young guys who try to uphold tradition).

The oxen are trained for 2 years (they must be at least 2 years old), the riders can't have more than 70Kg.
There are long breaks between the individual runs.

Here are some impressions:

Not all ox like to run, so they need to some help...

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mqD3fvw/0/L/i-mqD3fvw-L.jpg) (https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mqD3fvw/0/O/i-mqD3fvw-O.jpg)

Quite a few riders are female:

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-TGxDgDb/0/L/i-TGxDgDb-L.jpg) (https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-TGxDgDb/0/O/i-TGxDgDb-O.jpg)

Looks like the girls like their ox:

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-STxk3BS/0/L/i-STxk3BS-L.jpg) (https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-STxk3BS/0/O/i-STxk3BS-O.jpg)

After the ox race there was one round of cart racing.

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-73kcwFX/0/L/i-73kcwFX-L.jpg) (https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-73kcwFX/0/O/i-73kcwFX-O.jpg)

The oxen where paraded around after the race was over.

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-5MFs6mX/0/L/i-5MFs6mX-L.jpg) (https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-5MFs6mX/0/O/i-5MFs6mX-O.jpg)

80mm is sometimes a bit long...

(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Hj52dCx/0/L/i-Hj52dCx-L.jpg) (https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Hj52dCx/0/O/i-Hj52dCx-O.jpg)

The full set: http://images.afximages.com/Events/Ox-Race/n-dsrqkN

cheers
afx

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: Jakov Minić on September 11, 2016, 21:35:34

poor animals...

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: Anthony on September 12, 2016, 00:21:22

Looks like a lot of fun, and great weather and colours.

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 12, 2016, 04:46:40

looks like a lot of fun ... for the humans

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: Anirban Halder on September 12, 2016, 05:09:07

Beautiful series Andreas. I really like first couple shots particularly. They have captured the essence of the race, the atmosphere, surroundings, everything. Thanks for sharing.
The race happens once in 10 years, wow!  :o

P.S: saw the other photos in the series, very nice!

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: tommiejeep on September 12, 2016, 05:30:29

Andreas, Enjoyable series.  Nice light, crisp images with good colours.  Racing Oxen is a part of many Asian cultures but not in Goa.  We have illegal Bull Fights(Bulls fighting each other) but I normally give them a miss.
Thanks for sharing
Tom

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: afx on September 12, 2016, 07:48:02

This is definitely miles better for the oxen then certain other forms of amusements.
And I think there are a quite a few images that show how close some ox/rider teams are.
I found it really scary that some of the support guys where barefoot...

cheers
afx

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: Fons Baerken on September 12, 2016, 08:12:40

Andreas, ##2&3 are hilarious, well captured, despite the bright light of the day

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: elsa hoffmann on September 12, 2016, 08:18:25

great set - the last 2 being my favourites :)

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: John Geerts on September 12, 2016, 09:55:17

Great series, Andreas.  The last one is a Bayern trademark I guess   ;) 

Love the contrast in the second one, with the electricity wires.

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: Thomas Stellwag on September 12, 2016, 10:46:21

my fav is no 1: a young girl and hunt for a drink drink brings every Ox to race

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: Frank Fremerey on September 12, 2016, 13:15:13

Now that I have seen all 63 of them: definitely a Mordsgaudi!!!!

And as the Oxen will be eaten later anyway it seems not wrong to move them beforehand along the lines of tradition....

Title: Re: The Ox Race
Post by: afx on September 13, 2016, 07:36:22

Thanks guys!

Quote from: Frank Fremerey on September 12, 2016, 13:15:13

Now that I have seen all 63 of them: definitely a Mordsgaudi!!!!

Yup, Major Fun ;-)

cheers
afx