Gatka (Punjabi: ਗਤਕਾ Gatka) is the name of an Indian martial art with the Sikhs of the Punjab region connected. It is a style of fighting with swords and sticks. The Punjabi name Gatka refers properly used on the wooden stick. The word comes from Sanskrit as a diminutive gada "club". By design, Gatka defensive and offensive and focused, both the physical with the mental and spiritual.
The style guru Hargobind Sahib emerged during the period in which dev made because of the severity of the Mughal oppression of the Sikhs and the ruthless attack on his father Guru Arjan, Guru Hargobind taught the art of Nihangs. But during the British Raj had much diluted by the martial arts and has been banned, and for this to be a division into two sub-style, the so-called Rasmi (ritualistic) and khel (sport) from the 1880s. It has been a revival during the late 20th Century, was an international Gatka Federation founded in 1982 and formalized in 1987 and Gatka is now more popular than sports or sword dance and performance art is often shown during Sikh festivals.
Since this revival, has the term Gatka sometimes came to "Sikh martial art" be expanded in general, including the use of various weapons, more correctly called Shastar Vidiya (Punjabi ਸ਼ਸਤਰ ਵਿਦਿਆ Shastar Vidiya, from Sanskrit Shastra-Vidya "martial arts" ). The term in this sense, especially as used since 2002 by Niddar Singh called historical martial arts reconstruction of 16 to 18 Century Sikh martial arts.
The Sikhs have a long history rooted traditions of the military, ultimately, in pre-modern schools of martial arts or śastravidyā the Rajputs, and the Kshatriya caste, or India's "martial races" in general.
Guru Hargobind propagated the theory of the warrior saint, and practice emphasized the need to fight his followers for self defense. Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Guru of the Sikh religion, trained in martial arts in the Punjab. One of his achievements was the founding of the Khalsa, the collective society that galvanized the warlike energies of the Sikh community and formed the Army of the Khalsa Sikh Empire during the first half of the 19th century.In regard to the formation of the Khalsa, he promised that he would "fight to teach the sparrow hawk."
After the Second Anglo-Sikh War from 1848 to 1849 and the founding of the British Raj, the Sikh martial traditions and practitioners suffered greatly. The British ordered effective disarmament of the entire Sikh community, as well as tools and farm implements were banned [edit] supports During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Sikhs, the British in quelling the mutiny .. As a result of these restrictions were relaxed aid in the fight against practices, but the Punjabi martial art, which emerged after 1857-had again changed fundamentally.
Instead, produce soldiers for the war Shaster Vidiya had in the 1860s into a new fighting style called Gatka (the name of his main weapon, the sword training stick), which was practiced mainly by the British Indian Army developed. As the Punjab Sikh colleges opened in the 1880s, the European rules of fencing have been applied to Gatka, which leads to a further change. This led to the formation of two branches Gatka, Rasmi (ritualistic) and khel (sport) out.
The system of Captain William Ewart Fairbairn and Captain Eric Anthony Sykes developed methods borrowed from Gatka, Jujutsu, "are fighting federal government." Chinese martial arts and This method was used to soldiers in close combat techniques to the Commando Basic Training Centre in Achnacarry to train Scotland.
It was definitely love at first sight, Jacob Maxwell's friends say.
The 21-year-old York University (Toronto, Canada) was a student in the student center with lunch, when he looked outside and saw men in colorful turbans, holding sticks and swords, form a circle.He watched carefully as they mock duels performed acrobatics and a bit of wrestling.On the same evening, Maxwell wrote in a Gatka class."It is the coolest thing I've ever done," he says, three months and dozens of higher classes.Gatka, a traditional Sikh martial art dates from the early 17th Century has seen a rejuvenation in recent years. Originally defended by the Sikhs in Punjab against invaders practiced, it is a kind of cross between fencing and day, wild yet lyrical at the same time.Duelists generally use wooden sticks - about half a meter long - or swords.Sikh Gatka emigrants brought with them. Like other traditions, it was almost lost in transition.
But recently it has seen a resurgence. Dozens of Sikhs - men, women and children of all ages - have signed up for classes at gurdwaras in the Greater Toronto and the province is only Gatka School in Mississauga nearly filled to capacity.The biggest surprise is not have the interest shown in Sikh Gatka.
Sarabjeet Singh, owner and instructor at the Yudh Gatka Akhara school in Mississauga, says he almost choked when a white man first walked in about a year to enroll.
"My first question was: Why?" he recalls.
The husband, a bus driver in Brampton, he said interest, when I do his neighbor Gatka. The man was Sarabjeet students for several months.
He has half a dozen non-Sikh students taught. Everyone is impressed, he says.Sarabjeet, a former teacher for a class at the Dixie Road Gurdwara in Toronto, decided to start a school. His gym - in an industrial area near Dixie and Derry Roads - had some students initially.But now he has 120 students, 300 more were taught by him in the last four years.Gatka is old but still applicable in today's world - because of its spiritual principles and intense physical training - Sarabjeet Singh said. "That is his calling."Though Gatka teaches defensive and offensive tactics, it is also about other people and weapons with respect.Gursharn Kaur Gill, fourth-year student at McMaster University, and a student of Sarabjeet says, helps her focus on the duels.During a recent class duels it is slightly larger than a man. It goes for a few minutes, then she loses her balance and almost falls over. Amid shouts of encouragement in Punjabi, she gains balance and moves slowly in a circle with their opponents as they try to touch each other with their sticks.Suddenly she brings her stick on his, disarming him.
She hugged him briefly, lines up against a low counter and has a little hop dance - like Bhangra - and reverently places the stick.She returns to the school twice a week to a duel. "There is intense physically, but it helps me relieve stress."Jasdev Singh, an instructor at two of the more than a dozen major gurdwaras in Toronto, believes an annual Gatka tournament has played an important role in their comeback. Originated the Annual International Yudh Gatka Tournament in Toronto in 2003.
This year she is in New Jersey, USA, where thousands expected to gather to see participants show off their skills with sticks and swords instead.
The Toronto leg of the tournament takes place on 23 August 2009, at the Rexdale Gurdwara.
Colin Mohammed, a planning officer in Toronto, to take his 3-year-old daughter. "I want them to learn it slowly," he says.
He started classes for seven years and still attends school Sarabjeet.
"It is very effective training," said Muhammad, adding that it sharpens the senses for perception.
"They respond very well and very quickly."
The style guru Hargobind Sahib emerged during the period in which dev made because of the severity of the Mughal oppression of the Sikhs and the ruthless attack on his father Guru Arjan, Guru Hargobind taught the art of Nihangs. But during the British Raj had much diluted by the martial arts and has been banned, and for this to be a division into two sub-style, the so-called Rasmi (ritualistic) and khel (sport) from the 1880s. It has been a revival during the late 20th Century, was an international Gatka Federation founded in 1982 and formalized in 1987 and Gatka is now more popular than sports or sword dance and performance art is often shown during Sikh festivals.
Since this revival, has the term Gatka sometimes came to "Sikh martial art" be expanded in general, including the use of various weapons, more correctly called Shastar Vidiya (Punjabi ਸ਼ਸਤਰ ਵਿਦਿਆ Shastar Vidiya, from Sanskrit Shastra-Vidya "martial arts" ). The term in this sense, especially as used since 2002 by Niddar Singh called historical martial arts reconstruction of 16 to 18 Century Sikh martial arts.
The Sikhs have a long history rooted traditions of the military, ultimately, in pre-modern schools of martial arts or śastravidyā the Rajputs, and the Kshatriya caste, or India's "martial races" in general.
Guru Hargobind propagated the theory of the warrior saint, and practice emphasized the need to fight his followers for self defense. Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Guru of the Sikh religion, trained in martial arts in the Punjab. One of his achievements was the founding of the Khalsa, the collective society that galvanized the warlike energies of the Sikh community and formed the Army of the Khalsa Sikh Empire during the first half of the 19th century.In regard to the formation of the Khalsa, he promised that he would "fight to teach the sparrow hawk."
After the Second Anglo-Sikh War from 1848 to 1849 and the founding of the British Raj, the Sikh martial traditions and practitioners suffered greatly. The British ordered effective disarmament of the entire Sikh community, as well as tools and farm implements were banned [edit] supports During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Sikhs, the British in quelling the mutiny .. As a result of these restrictions were relaxed aid in the fight against practices, but the Punjabi martial art, which emerged after 1857-had again changed fundamentally.
Instead, produce soldiers for the war Shaster Vidiya had in the 1860s into a new fighting style called Gatka (the name of his main weapon, the sword training stick), which was practiced mainly by the British Indian Army developed. As the Punjab Sikh colleges opened in the 1880s, the European rules of fencing have been applied to Gatka, which leads to a further change. This led to the formation of two branches Gatka, Rasmi (ritualistic) and khel (sport) out.
The system of Captain William Ewart Fairbairn and Captain Eric Anthony Sykes developed methods borrowed from Gatka, Jujutsu, "are fighting federal government." Chinese martial arts and This method was used to soldiers in close combat techniques to the Commando Basic Training Centre in Achnacarry to train Scotland.
It was definitely love at first sight, Jacob Maxwell's friends say.
The 21-year-old York University (Toronto, Canada) was a student in the student center with lunch, when he looked outside and saw men in colorful turbans, holding sticks and swords, form a circle.He watched carefully as they mock duels performed acrobatics and a bit of wrestling.On the same evening, Maxwell wrote in a Gatka class."It is the coolest thing I've ever done," he says, three months and dozens of higher classes.Gatka, a traditional Sikh martial art dates from the early 17th Century has seen a rejuvenation in recent years. Originally defended by the Sikhs in Punjab against invaders practiced, it is a kind of cross between fencing and day, wild yet lyrical at the same time.Duelists generally use wooden sticks - about half a meter long - or swords.Sikh Gatka emigrants brought with them. Like other traditions, it was almost lost in transition.
But recently it has seen a resurgence. Dozens of Sikhs - men, women and children of all ages - have signed up for classes at gurdwaras in the Greater Toronto and the province is only Gatka School in Mississauga nearly filled to capacity.The biggest surprise is not have the interest shown in Sikh Gatka.
Sarabjeet Singh, owner and instructor at the Yudh Gatka Akhara school in Mississauga, says he almost choked when a white man first walked in about a year to enroll.
"My first question was: Why?" he recalls.
The husband, a bus driver in Brampton, he said interest, when I do his neighbor Gatka. The man was Sarabjeet students for several months.
He has half a dozen non-Sikh students taught. Everyone is impressed, he says.Sarabjeet, a former teacher for a class at the Dixie Road Gurdwara in Toronto, decided to start a school. His gym - in an industrial area near Dixie and Derry Roads - had some students initially.But now he has 120 students, 300 more were taught by him in the last four years.Gatka is old but still applicable in today's world - because of its spiritual principles and intense physical training - Sarabjeet Singh said. "That is his calling."Though Gatka teaches defensive and offensive tactics, it is also about other people and weapons with respect.Gursharn Kaur Gill, fourth-year student at McMaster University, and a student of Sarabjeet says, helps her focus on the duels.During a recent class duels it is slightly larger than a man. It goes for a few minutes, then she loses her balance and almost falls over. Amid shouts of encouragement in Punjabi, she gains balance and moves slowly in a circle with their opponents as they try to touch each other with their sticks.Suddenly she brings her stick on his, disarming him.
She hugged him briefly, lines up against a low counter and has a little hop dance - like Bhangra - and reverently places the stick.She returns to the school twice a week to a duel. "There is intense physically, but it helps me relieve stress."Jasdev Singh, an instructor at two of the more than a dozen major gurdwaras in Toronto, believes an annual Gatka tournament has played an important role in their comeback. Originated the Annual International Yudh Gatka Tournament in Toronto in 2003.
This year she is in New Jersey, USA, where thousands expected to gather to see participants show off their skills with sticks and swords instead.
The Toronto leg of the tournament takes place on 23 August 2009, at the Rexdale Gurdwara.
Colin Mohammed, a planning officer in Toronto, to take his 3-year-old daughter. "I want them to learn it slowly," he says.
He started classes for seven years and still attends school Sarabjeet.
"It is very effective training," said Muhammad, adding that it sharpens the senses for perception.
"They respond very well and very quickly."
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