Angathari It is common for age-old customs and deeply held beliefs to gradually fade away. But in some cases their popularity and names will survive unscathed in the new age. The comprehensive martial art of Kalaripayat is divided into four sections. Meypayatu Koltharipayat Angathari verumkaiprayogam Ankathari is a scholar of sharp weapons Vallpayat Marapidichkundhapayat Urumipayat Kadaram Churikapayat Vallpayat Puliyangam is done with sword and shield A sword and a shield to block both of them
takes the same It's called puliyangam It's vaithari is available Nearly 5 to 7 style's vaithari is available today But the masters and students in the mordern generation don't know how to do that. It has been extincted and it's distroyed and stopped doing it But in normal vallpayat there are vaytharis that can be used and available According to that vaythari we perform vaallpayatu Practitioners will also perform non-vocal exercises according to the ability of their body just for a show. So it i
s the structure of vaallpayat. Katarapayat Kataram is the smallest weapon in the angathari . It can be seen in several forms in kalari Katarapayat is the practice between two people There is no definite vaytharis available in the ancient books Then we are using the koltharipayatu techniques and skills from the vaallpayatu Then the katarapayatu played by the player by his own style with both this techniques Marapidichkundhayapat Nowadays the vaythari of marapidichkundhapayatu is available In this
two players uses two difffrent types of weapons one takes the spear then the other takes the sword and shield Like this its a strange one in the weapon fights Mara means shield The spear guy will only take the spear but the other one takes both the sword and shield It is a advanced form with good strange movements It bears a resemblence with Manipurs Thangthak Thangtak is meant to be sword and spear In that one will take sword and shield then the other will take the spear and shield In the ke
rala's kalari we just takes the spear but there they will takes the spear and sheild Then we can conclude that there is a similarity between this two. Churikapayat Churika is a small size of a real sword Many of them don't know how to use churika in kalari Becuase there is no vaythari for it Then the churikapayat is also following the vallpayat vayathari and technics There no effects than a performence urumipayat We can say urumi as whipsword or flexible sword Its metel is a flexible iron Urumi
is a belt like sword which can be weared on the waist The word urumi is came from the arab word rumi Urumi is very propular in the vadakanpattu The ancient worrier Uniyarcha fighted with the urumi Also Thacholli Odhenan is used this in the Vadakanpattu Urumi is one of the popular weapon in the kalaripayatu But the vaythari for the urumipayat is not available now Then the students use their vallpayat techniques for the urumipayat Someone takes shield to Its too dangers ,if the user don't know how
to use it Urumi in its manner otherwise it become a threat to the user Only the experienced person can use urumi properly is a fact Kalari is an art used by the ancient people for hunting for their survival Later on it's changed to a martial art It originated from the southwestern part of the country In the time of freedom struggle , the British army had superior weapons and guns , all our kalari afforts were wasted The untimely death of Thacholi Othenen , a warrior of vadakanpatu led to the de
cline of kalari As part of the swadheshi movement , the leaders called for the return of the arts of all lands Hence the restoration of the kalaripayat was witnessed here The role played by leader K Kellapan in the historic moment was unforgetable The weaponary of the kalaripayat has influenced many other arts of kerala Weapons in kalaripayat are not just some sharp weapons but an extension of our body
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