French Style

"In the 19th century the French style has been increasing in the Southern France" (Fiske). In France the bullfighting has increased like a sport or for culture. They have their most important arenas for bullfighting, some are the ancient Roman arena of Nimes and Arles. The French style of  bullfighting is more common in the Provence and Languedoc arenas in where they practice this dificult sport. This is a bloodless spectacle in which the objective of the Torero is for kill them, but they need to pierce them in the head of a young bull. The participants that are the Toreros they begin training in their early years with young bulls before they graduate. Before the spectacle begins they take some bulls into the street, in which young men compete and start running until they enter to the arena is a tradition in France, Mexico, and Spain. They have another French style for bullfighting in which cows are used instead of bulls. This competition between teams named cuadrillas, which each team belong to certain states. "A cuadrilla is made up of a teneur de corde, an entraineur, a sauter and six ecarteurs they have the same style as Spain" (Fiske). The toreros are the same as Spain and Mexico but they are other differet types of persons that help to the torero so he can kill the bull. The cows are brought to the arena in boxes and then taken out in order, the cows are not like the bulls that are very creazy and they don´t think at all. They have different rules that are applied in some competitions, but it resulted so many fatalities that French government tried to take out this sport but many people complain with the government so they don´t take out this sport. It´s more different to be with a bull in a corrida than be with a cow because the bulls are more dangerous, are creazy aniamls and have more mobility. In this spectacles the participants and spectators share the risk to be kill, because they know cases that the bull go to the barriers and start running and hurting spectators, this accident´s are very common in smalll arenas.


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Fiske-Harrison, Alexander, "Into The Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight", 2011.

Spanish style bullfighting

In Spain their style bullfighting is called corrida de toros or la fiesta, also in Mexico we call this sport like corrida de toros. This is a traditional corrida in where three matadores each fight with  two bulls, each of which is between four and six old and wheighs no less than 460kg moreless. "Each matador has six assistants two picadores "lancers on horseback" where their job if for hurt the bull from the back" (Fiona). With this help  the torero it wouldn´t have any problem because the bull it would be tired and they also they are mounted on horseback, three banderilleros who along with the matadors are collectively that make the bull be tired, know as toreros and a mozo de espadas "sword page" (Fiona). The word matador is only used in engish where in spanish the more general torero is used like in Spain or Mexico they use only the word torero. In Spain in the spectacle, first they present all the toreros then in a big door it enter all the torero, horseback and some banderilleros, they are accompained by a band music with very good songs. The torero use an elegant dress where you think that the dress has diamonds and the matadores use a gold dress make you think that the dress has gold. The banderilleros are the opposite they use silver dress because they are the one´s that help the torero. When the spectacle is going to start only one torero is waiting to the bull, so it´s start the show and you have a very good spectacle.


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Fiona Govan, Bullfighting´s Future in Doubt , The Telegraph 20 Dec. 2006.

What's BullFighting ?

"Is a traditional spectacle in Spain, Mexico, Portugal, France and latin american countries" (Fiona). This sport is not very usuall to see on T.V or in a stadium. This tradition is that one or more bulls are baited in a bullring this is for a sport or a entretainment for the people. This is a blood sport because in the spectacle they kill the bulls and you see hoy they kill and how the blood starts to go over the floor, people don´t like to see blood so they start to have bad symptoms. This is no a competition is only a sport for men who has the heart to kill a animal and put his life on risk, because it has been many cases that a torero die because of a bull. This tradition had been practiced every year, this involves porfessional toreros, who they do  maneuvers at close range this movements they do when they start seen how to kill the bull and how to make that the bull feel tired. For kill a bull they need a inspiration and a emotional connection with his feellings because when they are bullfighting they take out all their feellings and they start to be another person. After the bull has been hooked multiple times behind the shoulder by the matador in the arena the bullfight usually concludes with the killing of the bull by a single sword which " is called estocada" (Fiona). In some countries kill bulls or be practice this sport is illegal like Portugal and some other countries because they think that kill a animal they can have bad looky or god can punish them. Before the spectacle begins is a tradition that a group of people that are the forcados try to grab and hold the bull by its horns when it reuns at them is increadible how this people starts fighting with the bull and how the bull can kill them very fast but in this sport thanks god no all toreros die, they have injurys but very bad injurys.

Fiona Govan,  Bullfighting´s Future in Doubt , The Telegraph 20 Dec. 2006.