AIZKORA

AIZKORA PROBA

Also known as Wood Chopping.

Next to my village in Estella we celebrate a "fiesta" where the young people must practique this sport, and the winner wins a free food in one of the best restaurant of Navarra.

 Literally "axe test", this rural sport more commonly known as aizkolaritza, from the Basque word for a wood-cutter. This is a very popular sport today but its origins are to be found in the rural wood cutting and charcoal burning communities of earlier periods.
In this competition, the wood cutter has to chop through a number of tree trunks arranged on the ground in rows as quickly as possible while standing on the log to beat his competitors.
This sport is often seen in summer at local festivities and open-air dances, held in towns all over the country.