Gatka speed and a variety of twirling maneuvres. This style of fighting was often used by peasants and commoners for whom the staff was a domestic tool and a convenient implement oself-defense. Stick-fighting or employs either the single or double stick. The stick or "danda" is generally the length of three handspans. Sticks and club-type weapons include the following. Gatka Gatka ( Urdu: "") is the name of an Indian martial art associated with the Sikhs of the Punjab region. It is a style of stick fighting, with wooden sticks intended to simulate swords. The Punjabi name "gatka" properly refers to
Musti-yuddha Musti-yuddha Musti-Yuddha (Sanskrit and ; ) is the traditional form of boxing originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term literally means "fist combat", from the Sanskrit words "muśti" (fist) and "yuddha" (fight, battle, conflict). While this would originally have been used as a general term for any boxing art, today it usually refers to muki boxing from Varanasi, the only surviving unarmed style. In the Punjab there still exists an armed form of boxing called "loh-musti" in which the fighters wear an iron ring on one hand, although it is no longer used for sparring. Aspiring boxers undergo years of