Kabootar baazi in Lahore is older than most of the sports people follow, and the training method is still mostly passed on by watching rather than writing.
The general shape of it: settle the young bird to the loft first so it knows where home is, then short tosses, then longer ones in the same direction, building distance gradually over weeks rather than jumping.
Where people disagree:
- How young to start
- How far to jump between tosses
- Training in the heat of the day versus early morning
- Feeding before or after a toss, and how much
- How much to fly them around the loft before tossing at all
If you race, walk us through your programme for a young bird from settling to its first real distance. Distances, weeks, and what you feed at each stage. And what you learned by losing birds -- everybody has.