The sea waves at Anjuna beach, Goa rejoiced as they smashed against the shore rocks announcing the triumphant efforts of Jammu and Kashmir contingent that lifted the title "Third position, All India Sqay Championship"
Each participant of this proud team swayed along with tall coconut trees in the breeze to announce to the world that their hard training has finally borne fruits. The bigger number of team from J&K hailed from Doon School.
Farwah Zehra of class 12 clutched the coveted bronze medal.
The other winners show up here in the report :
Students of Doon International School participated in 22nd National Sqay Championship 2021-2022 at Monohar Parikar Indoor Stadium Navelim Goa. Syed Raiyaan , Duaa Shah, Farwah Zehra participated and Farwah Zehra also won bronze medal for state.
Sqay is a Kashmiri martial arts form of sword-fighting originating in Kashmir. It is governed by the Sqay Federation of India. Armed sqay makes use of a curved single-edge sword paired with a shield, or one sword in each hand. Unarmed techniques incorporate kicks, punches, locks and chops. Sqay have different techniques single sword double sword free hand techniques and lessons of both free hand and sword.
Jammu and Kashmir team got over all 3rd place in India.