Huka-huka is a Brazilian
folk wrestling
A folk wrestling style is any traditional style of wrestling, which may or may not be codified as a modern sport. Most cultures have developed regional forms of grappling.
Europe
Britain
Traditionally wrestling has two main centres in Great ...
style of the indigenous people of
Xingu, in the state of
Mato Grosso
Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP.
Neighboring ...
. It is performed as a ritual fight during the ceremony of
Kuarup.
Rules
Huka-huka starts with the participants on their knees. It begins when the owner of the fight, a male chief, walks to the center of the arena and calls his opponents by name. The fighters kneel rotating clockwise in a circle facing the opponent, until they look at each other and cling, trying to lift the opponent and knock him to the ground The fight is performed by either men and women.
Huka huka as a martial art
Huka huka is being introduced, experimentally, in the formation of
São Paulo State Military Police. The fight is also being studied by
mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, inc ...
practitioners.
[http://middleeasy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7099:chael-better-watch-out-anderson-is-training-with-indians-in-upper-xingu&catid=34:organizations. Retrieved in July 16th 2012]
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Huka-huka
Brazilian martial arts
Combat sports
Indigenous sports and games of the Americas
Folk wrestling styles
Indigenous culture of the Amazon
Xingu peoples