A matador is a player in a bullring sport. " Torero " ( Spanish: Ã, [to '? e? o] ) or " toureiro " ( Portuguese: Ã, [to 'j' u] ) (both from Latin taurarius , matador) are Spanish and Portuguese words for the matador and describe all the players in bullring like practiced in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, France and other countries influenced by Portuguese and Spanish cultures. The main player and leader of the entourage in bullfighting, and who ends up killing the bull, is called the maestro (master), or with the official title of the matador de toros (bull killer). The other fighters in the entourage are called subalternos and their clothes are embroidered with silver as opposed to the more-theatrical gold matador. They include picadores , rejoneadores , and banderilleros .
In English, torero is sometimes referred to as the toreador , which was popularized by Georges Bizet in his Carmen operated. In Spain, words pointed to bullfighters on horseballs but less used today, which had been almost completely displaced by the rejavers .
A small number of women are pedestrians on foot or on horseback; One of the latest examples is Cristina SÃÆ'¡nchez. Matador women have experienced considerable resistance and public hostility from some fans and other matador.
Typically, toreros start fighting with younger bulls (novillos or, more formally in some Latin American countries, vaquillas), and is called novilleros . The adult bullfights begin only after a special game, called "Alternative". In this same bullfight, novillero (junior matador) is shown to the audience as the matador de toros .
Bullfight action is not called or considered a stand-alone sport but a performing art. No contests, simple punctuation, or formal classification. Furthermore, bullfighting, historically, began more with the nobles on horseback, all riding bullocks with ordinary people accompanying them on foot doing maid work. Over time, the work of ordinary people on foot becomes important to the point where they become the main and the only action. Bullfight on horseback becomes a separate and different act called "rejoneo" which is still done today, though more rarely.
Bullfighting is a means for the poor and able-bodied to achieve fame and wealth, similar to the role of boxing in many countries. When asked why he risked his life, a well-known torero reportedly replied, MÃÆ'¡s cornadas da el hambre ("[There is] more starvation than hunger"). Today, it is normal for a matador to be born into a sniper family.
The defined terms, Maletilla or espontÃÆ'¡neo, are attributed to those who illegally jump into the ring and try to fight people against bulls for their sake and glory. While the practice itself is hated by many audiences and fans, some, such as El Cordobà © s , started their careers this way.
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Matador de Toros
A matador de toros (lit. "bull killer", from Latin mactator , killer, killer, from mactare , to kill) is considered to be artists and athletes, has extraordinary agility, grace, and coordination. One of the most famous matadores is Juan Belmonte (1892-1962), whose technique in the ring revolutionized bullfighting and remains an established standard in which so many bullfighters are judged. The matador's style and courage are regarded as, at least, as importantly, whether he really killed the bull or not. The most successful matadores are used to be treated like pop stars, with appropriate financial income, the following cult and accompanied by spooky tabloid stories about their romantic conquest with women.
However, today, even today's top matadors are getting less, in real terms, than their counterparts in the 1960s - and much of the mass media coverage is limited to a handful of matadors known as "mediÃÆ'¡ticos", the sum of which not always including one of the precious bullfighters in Spain.
The big dangers of bullfighting that add matador mystic; matadores are regularly injured by bulls and, at the same time, 533 professional bullfighters have been killed in the arena since 1700. One of the most famous bullfighters in history, Manolete, died this way in 1947. This danger is said to be the center of nature and bullfighting.
American author Ernest Hemingway is a bull-bull lovers. In his fictional work, The Sun Also Rises featured a matador and bullshit scene, as well as short stories The Capital of the World and The Undefeated. Death in the Afternoon (1932) and The Dangerous Summer (1959).
In 1962, Hollywood producer David Wolper produced "The Story Of A Matador", documenting what it was like to be a matador. In this case, the late Matador Jaime Bravo.
Picador
Picador is a matador who uses a special spear called pica while riding a horse to test the strength of the bull and gives directions to the matador on which side the bull supports. They perform at the terio de varas which is the first of three stages in a Spanish bullfight. The shape of a spear or pica is governed by the laws of Spain to prevent serious injury to a bull which is considered an unjust fraud in the past. The bulls will fill the horses in the ring and, at the moment before contact, picador lancing the bull in the large muscle at the back of the neck; thus starting the job of lowering its head. Picador continues to pierce the bull's neck which leads to the first major loss of blood animal. During this time, the wounded ox's neck would be exhausted - however, as a result of filling an angry bull, the picador's horse would wobble by avoiding the bullfights while trying to lift the horse with its horns. Blood loss and gradual exertion will weaken the bull even further and make it ready for the next stage.
To protect the horses from bull horns, horses are surrounded by 'peto' - mattress cover. Before 1928, the horses did not wear any protection and a bull would often remove the horses that crossed during this vulnerable stage.
Banderillero
Banderillero is a torero that grows banderillas (lit. small flag ). It is a colorful wand, usually colored with the banderillero birthplace flag, with its thorny point being placed above the bull's shoulder. Banderilleros tried to place the stick while running as close as possible to the bull. They are judged by the crowd in their form and courage. Sometimes a matador, who is a very skilled banderillero before becoming a matador, will put some banderillas on his own. The skilled banderilleros can really correct the error in the way in which the bull weighs the bull in such a way that the bull stops sticking to one side, and thereby removes the potential danger to the matador by restricting the bull's offensive.
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Costume
Due to the decoration and elaborateness of the costumes, the Spaniards call torero clothes as traje de luces , which means "light suit". Although undoubtedly flamboyant, the matador costume structure provides great motion ease.
See also
- Spanish style bullring
- "Operation Matador".
- Bullfight
- List of bullfighters
- Cal State Northridge Matadors, just an inter-group sports team with Matador mascot.
- San Diego Toreros, an inter-university sports team at San Diego University.
- Texas Tech Red Raiders, formerly of Texas Tech Matadors, is an inter-university sports team from Texas Tech University.
- Valencia Community College The Matador is the campus mascot.
References
Further reading
Poon, Wena. Alex y Robert , Salt Publishing, London, 2010. Novels on training American teenage girls as a matador in contemporary Spain.
External links
- "Haunted By The Horns", (2006) ESPN's online article on Matador Alejandro Amaya and Matador Eloy Cavazos. This article investigates why a matador chooses their profession.
- Matadors Women: A Fierce Beauty - slideshow by Life magazine
- Spanish fans with matador illustrations, 1887, at Staten Island Historical Society Online Database Collection
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