Gatka

Recently this art form is included in the Khelo India Games.

Context

• Recently this art form is included in the Khelo India Games.
  
  

What is Gakta?

• Gatka is the name of an Indian martial art.
• It is a style of stick-fighting, with wooden sticks intended to simulate swords.
• Gatka is a formalized Sikh in the Indian state of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh.
• Gatka is focused primarily on weapons, especially swords and stick fighting.
• Gatka martial artists consider this ancient martial arts style as the “mother of all martial arts”.
• The art form of Gatka can be practised either as a sport or a ritual; the sport form is played by 2 opponents wielding wooden staves called gatka.
• These sticks may be paired with a shield.