Prima del combattimento

A bull is restrained before its match against another bull during the bullfighting festival in Cheongdo, southeast of Seoul, South Korea, 17 March 2010. About 130 fighting bulls from across the nation will go head-to-head in the five-day event. Korea’s traditional bullfighting is a pushing technique that requires pure strength, a heading technique meaning head-butting which can be seen quite frequently during the fight, a neck attacking technique that requires a lot of skill, a side attacking technique which aims for the stomach that could deal a death blow to the other bull, a horn-locking technique that presses down the other bull, a horn-hitting technique that violently hits and shakes the other bull’s horns, a lifting technique that locks one’s head with the counterpart in attack and, finally, a sequence hitting technique in which horn-hitting is fast followed by head-butting to end the game.
(Foto Ansa/EPA/JEON HEON-KYUN)