History of stick fight (ঐতিহাসিক লাটি খেলা)
Stick-fighting, stick fighting, or stick fighting is a variety of martial arts which use simple long slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden 'sticks' for fighting; such as a staff, cane,
Although many systems are defensive combat techniques intended for use if attacked while lightly armed, others such as kendo, modern arnis and gatka were developed as safe training methods for dangerous weapons. Whatever their history, many stick-fighting techniques lend themselves to being treated as sports.
In addition to systems specifically devoted to stick-fighting, certain other disciplines include it, either in its own right, as in the Tamil martial art silambam, or merely as part of a polyvalent training including other weapons and/or bare handed fighting, as in Kerala's kalaripayat tradition, in West Bengal & Bangladesh Lathi khela (Bengali: লাঠি খেলা) is a traditional Bengali martial art a kind of stick fighting practised in Bangladesh and West Bengal A practitioner is known as a lathial.
The word lathi is the Bengali word meaning stick, while khela means a sport or game. Therefore, lathi khela translates as a game of sticks.
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বিলুপ্তির পথে গ্রাম বাংলার অন্যতম বিনোদন লাঠি খেলা
গ্রাম বাংলার সংস্কৃতির অন্যতম বিনোদনের অনুষঙ্গ লাঠি খেলা। তবে গ্রামীণ এলাকার সংস্কৃতির ধারক এই খেলা আজ বিলুপ্তির পথে।লাঠি খেলা একটি ঐতিহ্যগত মার্শাল আর্ট যেটি বাংলাদেশ ও ভারতের পশ্চিমবঙ্গ রাজ্যের কিছু জায়গায় চর্চা করা হয়। 'লাঠি খেলা' অনুশীলনকারীকে 'লাঠিয়াল' বলা হয়।
