page_title: Lajos Kassai
section_title: Horse archery
hierarchical_section_title: Lajos Kassai / Horse archery
caption_attribution_description: English: Photos of two bows suited for horseback-archery. The bows were crafted by Lajos Kassai, Hungary. The red bow is an Ölyv, the black bow is a Farkas II.
context_page_description: Lajos Kassai, 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Ölyv (red) and Farkas II. (black) bows
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