These Hungarian Horsemen Predated the American Cowboy
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2017
- Before cowboys roamed the American West, there were Hungary’s Csikós. And on the Puszta-the country’s great plain-these traditional horsemen carry on their legacy. For centuries, whip-cracking horsemen in Hungary have been caring for their horses and cattle while practicing death-defying riding. The riders live in relative isolation in ranches that dot the plains. Although only a few Csikós are left in the region, Adam Bordás and his father János are keeping this proud tradition alive.
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I'm really proud of my beautiful home, hungary. I'm a Hungarian traditional archer, but I also have whip. ❤️
Én szintúgy :D
I love how Hungarians' love for nature never changes, as a Polish citizen.
As a Hungarian citizen I thank you
Lubimy Polaków!
I'm Hungarian, and I'm so so proud of Csikós'
Thank You for this video!!!!
American cowboys are an extremely recent phenomenon as history goes - the second half of the 19th century. Horsemanship in other parts of the world, on the other hand, goes back several millennia
As far as I know, the covby thing only lasted 20 years. 20 years after the civil war, the cattle were transported by train ...The rest has been added by Hollywood...During the American Civil War, saddles were exported from Hungary to the USA :-)
@@vondobrogi8196 Thats not true at all. It was around before the civil war and we’ll after the civil war. It’s still a profession till this day.
@@Channel-ml4qv I have not argued that this profession did not exist. Apparently it did exist, as immigrants came from Europe. I was just saying that there was such an export item in Hungary. Then why, I don't know. It was probably a deal for traders in it.
Csikós existed since the 1700s we are definently older
@@vondobrogi8196 It was a thing in Australia too, even bigger than in the US i think.
very interesting to see this special kinda connection between people and their cultural heritage/horses and also sad to see them kinda gradually fade away.
Its pretty incredible... the Magyars settled in Hungary over 1000 years ago!
@@KB-uy3lv before avars were the huns, kurgan culture, corded ware culture
"Kind of relationship we don't even have with our wives."
...i'm beginning to think they don't have that good of a relationship with their wifes
The Great Beginning well maybe the horses give better head.
Probably a good thing: 0:10 😨
The Great Beginning talking about the sex 😂😂😂😂
nasty af but kinda interesting xD
Amíg ilyen emberek lesznek,vannak élni fog a magyar !!!!
This made me proud to be a Hungarian. :)
"ezzel olyan a kapcsolatunk, hogy az asszonnyal nincs ilyen kapcsolatunk" lmaoing at this
1:29 look at that smooth move with the whip
That guy stared into my soul.
I wonder what hungarian sounds like to non-hungarian people...
I saw some versions in comments...some say it sounds turkic, iranic(!), finnish+slavic, turkish+german, and once I saw mongolian+turkic+ukrainian (lol).
I'm hungarian, but I saw a video about a parody of Hungarian language (made by slovaks probably), where the man spoke a fake Hungarian, what was not understable for me, and it really sounded like a Finnish and Slavic mix.
@Obergruppenstuppentruppensturmfuhrer SuperStuka
czcams.com/video/8uOG_L9A6XU/video.html
@Obergruppenstuppentruppensturmfuhrer SuperStuka czcams.com/video/fdKRlkGgB7Y/video.html
A better version.
The video was made in Czechoslovakia in 1932.
It sounds Turkic mix with Persian.
There are many different dialect in
Hungary. But this the Tisza Körös "Rural" or Hortobágy dialect..
The stare game is strong on this one
Its good to see my country in this channel big up
To be fair your country's tourism department sponsored it
r00ker which country is it?
Yavuz Kaya Hungary
maybe because you speak Hungarian
Who cares
Hungarian is the weirdest language, it's so interesting :O
César Augusto Ojeda Thanks, so good to read that about Your mother tongue :)
They picked up during the centuries from the turk language, BUT!! the Hungarian language have no relatives!! It came from the original Sumerian, We Hungarians, have several thousands of years of proven history! We still can read the runic writings on the Sumerian clay tablets!
hát igen nem egyszerű
Actually, Hungarian is most closely related to... Finnish.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_languages
Scelestus13 it is
I wish this were way longer!!
Do more stuff like this, get it out there, and those guys need to make more kids and teach them, we can't keep letting things like this die out
We love this story! :)
The cows are so cute!!!
And they taste the best in pörkölt
Great video, but Csikós is singular, while Csikósok is the plural, and saying there were csikós, doesn't make sense.
Lilla most people don't bother to use the correct plural form when it's a language they don't know. It's the same with german and japanese words.
btw, is -ok the regular ending for plural?
dreamingSophie it's -k but there are binding sounds if the word ends with a consonant
Lilla well over 99% of the world doesn't speak hungarian so can you really blame anyoone?
kylem1112 true, it really isn't anything other than nitpicking. But for me it just sounds so dumb if someones say for example "wunderkinds" or "poltergeists".
dreamingSophie Hungarians barely ever use plural either so it wasn't that weird.
Senki?
Akkor nekem kell megtennem!
BOJLER ELADÓ!
Chopi olcsóér?
Chopi kolbászt beszámítasz?
Chopi nem lopott?
Chopi
Túrórudi nincs?
köszönjük, hogy magadra vállaltad ezt a feladatot :D respect
Éljenek a magyarok! :) Boldog Aug 20-at! :)
Csikó = young horse
Learning this seems hard and same with learning the Hungarian language
Very beautiful. I wish I could be one.
This was cool since I didn't have to read the captions
Cool video
Haha I knew you would make something about hungary! Haha Tudtam hogy Fogtok valamit csinálni magyarországról!
Hungarians came from central asia (uralic people)
I like their clothes very chic
I have one too
You can’t trick me into going to Hungary
I can not get rid of the subtitles.
Hungary4Life
Real dothraki
the real dothraki are the mongolians though
Nope, Dothrakis are more likely Ancient Hungarians or Huns (they are not the same nation), but they (Huns/A.Hungarians) have many similar fighting technics and weapons with Mongolians, because they are coming from middle Asia between 350-900.
Dothrakis facials and clothes are closer to Huns and A.Hungarians than Mongolians.
Chopi um no huns and hungarians are brothers and we are not relatives with the mongols.
Synth Curie there's no proof but there's some kind of relation between us
Dorka what country are you from?
Predated American cowboys.... :) Yeah by about 1100 years..
I mean how do they mount like this?! These saddles don't have a girth 🙈
Dont they mean Csikósok? They were saying it in singular form.
this channel should be aired in television but why not smh
Does someone knows how to find the song played between 00:38 to 1:28???, i find it so cool and animated, please some caritative soul ...
It is hungarian folk
Have the comments on these videos gotten more toxic as time has gone on or it just me?
YllwMonky456 seems to happen to most channels when they get over a million subscribers. then it only takes about 5 seconds to scroll and find an extremely stupid comment
El Matador anything with animals, any slight show of force is recieved with ignorant condemnation.
Guy looks like Rowan "Mr Bean" Atkinson so much I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. Amazing skills though. And what a wah to live!
Why is that guy staring daggers at the camera man?
😊😊😊😊
Yes Sir! Have you ever seen a cowboy like the Hungarian herdsmen ? Impossible. (The csikos-saddle has no girth !)
I AM HUNGARIAN!
MAGYAR VAGYOK!
Jó.
They wear the costumes all the time everyday? Awesome costumes!
Of cause not, it was just part of the original folk costume for them nobody wear this anymore:) It was only for the movie
This is no costumes. Workwear, localwear.
@@angyal4 akik kin dolgoznak a pusztakon nekik ez a munkaruhajuk, helyi viselet. Ezt hordjak minden nap...
they look pissed off lol
No it's just most hungarians have folded or hooded eyes and you also have to count with the shining sun
Oh yeshhhhhh
Valaki magyar????
Hahó
Irajtok magyarok!!
Most lattam a videot s ha folfele mesz,latni fogod, jol beolvastam a sok bolondnk itt.Ha-ha
Jelen. Sokat nem vartam, foleg az amerikai kommenteloktol. En is meg itt elek amerikaban, sajnos a lexikalis tudasuk elkeseritoen keves....
Hungarian chads riding 2 horses at once standing up
Do they whip the horses? I only ask as I see they're rather ept at the use of the whip in this video.
No, I think they whip the air/ground but certainly not the horses
No, it's just the whip's sound what helps herding the wild horses. They never harm their horses.
👍
Can't be all that great. Some horses experienced pain due to tight reins and the action of the bit.
Interesting video till they started riding and hammering on the bit...ouch
He farted at 1:53
na végre értek valamit
Great horsemen do not need bits, spurs, horse shoes, hard hands (look at the tight reins and open horse mouths on the video).
Well of course they did!
dude, this is col
I don't think any of the tricks harm the horses, but I think pulling the bit that hard while riding is unnecessary...
You noticed that also. The pain he was creating was completely unnecessary. You are the only one with a critical eye that saw the truth.
Is it possible to become one without being hungarian
Sure it is!
Prepare to learn Hungarian first.
if you join the army of course you can
Attila the Huns
Before csikos there wer quickscopers
xVenum stfu gay wod
Copper Penny dude you don't need to hate what did I say wrong
I bet there are a lot of jrhnbr there
do they do throat singing
鬼ゴズ-san + Actually no they don't, but they like to sing folksongs of their own.
The way he dresses is somewhat like Mongolian style.
Of course. Everybody "predates" the American cowboy.
Do they dress up like this everyday ?
Yes
Depends
Have they ever hit the horses with the whips
They use the whip sound only to guide the herd!They never hurt the horses! :)
Never.
No, it just shows their agility. They don't hurt the horses
Maybe during training
The original Mexican cowboy outdate the American cowboy the vaquero translated to English bukaroo
*32 cowboys disliked this*
Wait cowboys ride horses?!
No they ride cows.
Mongolians :well this video is funny
magyarok ?
No
roland rapolti ottvannak a videóban :D
Dorka tudom de, ki nézi 🙂
How do they make money?
I would ride horses if I needn't go to work.
They work this. The animals (cows, horses) owner is pay them. No a lot if money but money...
Most people who own horses don't have a stable or time to take care of their horses so these people do that for them. They also breed and sell them, they breed cattles who they can slaughter or sell. It isn't easy job but trust me it pays really well. It's not easy to start off either but if you have the land the customer and animals you can live well.
@@hilmermate317 máté do you know a nice place where you can get homemade horse salami? i couldnt find any, even thou i lived in the puszta, pedig a lókolbi a kedvencem.
Yes there was horsemen and horsemanship before american cowboys. Geez. America is not everything
Why would they need whips if they have a strong positive relationship with their horse?
They aren't whipping the horse tho, just the air.
Alicia I'm guessing it's a trust exercise.
For the cattles
Those whips are ment to just give out a loud and "snappy" sound (that is usually scary to animals) to move the cattles around.
And if you want to use it against somebody... it will hurt a lot. It can open up the skin very easily.
why cowboys need guns?
Bruh what kind of accents do this guys have? Im half hungarian and so i hear hungarian all the time, i understand most of what i hear too. But oh lord i understand very little of what these dudes are saying, when he first started talking i didnt even register that it was hungarian XD well i guess thats what happens when youve only really been to zalaegerszeg
Én mindent megértettem! Pedig én is Zalaegerszegi vagyok, legalábbis a környékén élek. Nagyon szép tájszólassal beszélnek!
Én székely vagyok, szerintem csak azért van 'furcsa' akcentusa, mert máshol lakik mint mi/ I'm a szekely, I think he only has a 'weird' accent because he lives in a different part of hungary than we do
um.. they do speak in a different dialect but I live at Budapest and I understood every word, it’s not that different
Modern Dothraki
What about Mongolians?
Harsh techniques.
1:30 lol the guy got his whip tangled up
Madi Griffith That was intentional, to "holster" it
dang a want a pet horse ;-;
You are starting off on the wrong foot with that comment.
The real Dothraki
Before they were cowboys they were man
And *woman* dear lord almost disrespected a woman, that was close
🎖🎖🎖FIRST :D
10th
4th
Hungarians race is partly Asian? It first i thought they look Asian, but in Europe.
Their ancestors were but modern hungarians today are almost entirely European now.
Eastern Hungarians who never migrated to Europe still live in Yugra(Yungria) called the Mansi and Khanty and they look 100% Asian.
false info dear :(
@@mongolchiuud8931 Khanty and Mansi are not Hungarians, but they had a common ancestor with Hungarians.
@@sectorgovernor Khanty and Mansi homeland in their language is called Yungri(Yungria) and Yugri/Yugra(Ugri) in Russian. Hungarian were called Ugres in other nations. The tribal names in Hungarian past such as Kurt-Gurmat,Nyek,Tarjan and Meyger is still found in Mansi clan names as Yurmati,Nekmen,Tarkhan, and Mansi...
Khanty is pronounced Hun-ty. Your own historians say Magna-Hungaria is located in Yugra. lmao
@@mongolchiuud8931 yes, because all of these people came from the Proto-Ugric people.
11th
Second
6th
Sisqo
They're just Cossacks aren't they.
Go open a history book for once.
No. Your frame of reference is small.
Nem cowboy hanem betyár.
right west way awayo yoll find two boss hosse, beter buy tree one is for tari take a hike
Their dress looks Mongolian. 😑😑😑😑
John Doe It does? Wow I didn't know Mongolians also wore stuff like that, but it's because we came from there.. At least, if you look at a map of languistics, and what languages sound alike, Mongolian is the closest to Hungarian..
No no no you are all kinda wrong. Its a 100% hungarian clothing. And we are not relatives with the mongols.
It has, Estonian and Finnish.
Hungarians, or Magyars, are distant relatives of Finns and Estonians, and are descended from Uralic peoples, who come from the Ural mountain area, and share little to no heritage with other europeans. They are in no way related to mongols, and only dress like them by coincidence, although Mongolian influence should not be ruled out, given that they were under their rule, at one point.
Edit: The Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian languages are all in the Uralic language family, separate from Indo-European languages, which all European languages except Basque belong to, and the Turkic family, which the Kazakh language is related too.
Okay who is hungarian here.
Ha, outcasts.
I'm pretty sure horses can survive without humans.
kkme7 Not really, horses are incredibly domesticated now and there's a chance a wild one will settle with a human anyway.
Been doing it for 50 million years.
better take hike somewhere
I thought they were Mongolians omg
maybe that video could make you encouraged to learn of the HUngarians, history etc. We never ever was mongolians, actually we protected Europa hundreds of years ego against the Mongolians
Fuck you,🖕🖕🖕
Before them, there were the Mongols. Hungarians came from Asia, don't forget that.
The Mongols came AFTER the HUN-MAGYARS! Attila in the 5th Century A.D., Mongols in the 11th-12th Century A.D.!
So what?
Mongolians are from east Asia horse are not from east Asia they are from the step which was proto indo European proto Uralic and proto indo Europeans were related we have been riding horses way before Mongolians