| 1 | Multi-skills, good riding and shooting, and good fencing. | |
| 2 | Also, cavalry archers are very hard to counter with heavy infantry. | |
| 3 | As the nomads of good riding and shooting, mobile, often the more the Great Wall, entered the Central Plains. | |
| 4 | The Turkish army must play to its strengths, namely its formidable mounted archers and janissary units. | |
| 5 | Empress Wu Zetian made the sport a formal military requirementand promoted it as a symbol of civic virtue. |