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Printed in INDIA, by National Gatka Association of India
First Edition : December 2015,
Second Edition : January 2017,
Third Edition : April 2021, ISBN : 978-93-5281-208-0
Combat sports, both armed and unarmed, grew out of the realities of scuffle/battle and in vogue since time immemorial. Nowadays these sports are based on tests of skills and strict rules govern them besides safety of players. In many combat sports, the competitor is striking out with a weapon – whether a stick, sword, a punching fist or a kicking foot. In all of them, it is his opponent’s body that he/she must strike at or act against – a greater or lesser part of it.
Gatka is one of them and the oldest and most primitive martial activities known to man. Gatka is an art of stick-fighting between two or more practitioners called ‘Gatkebaaz’, with wooden sticks (called Soti) intended to simulate swords.
Playing of Gatka, called Gatkabazi, is the perfect relaxation because it not only gives strenuous exercise for every part of the body but also requires a high degree of mental concentration to the exclusion of everything else. Gatka can be described as the spilled use of the stick (Gatka) for offence or defence.