WHAT IS MAS Wrestling?
The sport got its name from the Yakut word “mas”, which means “tree branch”. This sport, which works the arm, leg and back muscles at the same time, is the only sport where the competitors do not come into direct contact with each other.
Mas Wrestling, which is the national sport of the Yakut Turks, is a type of wrestling that is also played in Anatolia and means the game of sticks, tree wrestling.
It is a sport based on two people putting their feet on the board in front of each other and pulling a stick with their hands. Mas Wrestling is the only wrestling sport where the opponents do not touch, shake or throw each other.
To this sport person; It gives physical and emotional skills such as strength, dexterity, speed, endurance, courage and vitality.
In this way, it is aimed that children and adults have fun while doing sports, control their physical strength with the spirit of competition and achieve success.
RULES
Players sit face-to-face on a stable, flat and non-slip platform 2 m long and 30 cm high and place their legs on a piece of wood made of larch. The lottery will determine who will grasp the stick and how. The athlete who has won the right to choose has the right to hold the bar internally or externally. Competitors grasp a 50 cm long stick with their palms at the command of the referee. Before the start of the competition, the piece of wood is held in the middle parallel to the fixed partition. Hands do not touch each other, one athlete is on the inside and the other athlete is on the outside, holding the stick. The athlete holding the stick from the outside in the first round has to hold the stick from the inside in the second round. The hands and fingers holding the stick should not overlap or overlap each other. Athletes try to pull the stick they hold to their side with the referee’s “start” command. It is forbidden to pull the stick before the command. Behaviors such as squeezing or pushing are not exhibited during the competition and the opponent’s hand cannot be touched, the stick cannot be pulled unilaterally by holding the end of the stick, the stick cannot be kept fixed to the body and cannot be rotated. The athlete who pulls the stick to his side continues the fight until his opponent leaves the stick. The athlete whose opponent releases the stick or pulls the opponent’s body to his side wins the competition. In addition, the game is considered won when the opponent’s feet leave the board, when the opponent receives 2 warnings, when any point of the opponent’s body touches the end points of the board. The athlete who wins 2 games in a match becomes the winner of the game.
