INDIACA
Karla Kožić & Eva Kočiš
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What is indiaca?
•Indiaca is a form of the Brazilian game ‘peteca’ popular in Europe.
•This hybrid of Volleyball and Badminton is played with a giant shuttlecock (sort of a ball with
feathers on it ) goes by many names.
•indiaca can be played between two players facing eachother, or by small teams
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History
Records showed that in the past Indiaca was practiced by native Brazilian Indians as a recreation,
even before the Portuguese arrived. This was passed successively through generations in Brazil.
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Rules
•Indiaca is played on court across a net with similar rules to volleyball.
• Instead of a ball, a large shuttlecock, sometimes also called an indiaca, or featherball is used;
and it is controlled using the hands.

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Playing area
•The playing court is a rectangle measuring 16x 6,10 meters.


The net height in IIA competitions has to be:
Youth category
Men:215 cm
Women:205 cm
Mixed:210 cm2
Junior category
Men:225 cm
Women:215 cm
Mixed:220 cm
Open Category (no age limit)
Men:235 cm
Women:220 cm
Mixed:225 cm
Senior category (40+)
Men:225 cm
Women:210 cm
Mixed:215 cm
Height of the net
(some information that can be useful if you want to play with your friends or kids at school)

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Teams
•In competitions there must be 5 players on court at the moment of the service. Special Rules may
authorize a team to play with only 4 players
•In mixed category, teams must have at least 2 male and 2 female players on the court
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How to score a point?
•A team scores a point:
1.1. by successfully grounding the ball on the opponent’s court.
2.when the opponent team commits a
3.fault.when the opponent receives a penalty
•A match is won by the team that, according to rules ofthe concrete competition:
1.wins 2 sets in a best of three sets game.
2.wins 3 sets in a best of five games.

How to play?



And now you will learn how to play
step by step


Lesson 1: service



Lesson 2: pass



Lesson 3: attack



Lesson 4: defence



Dear colleauges, hope you learned something new and interesting and you will have fun playing
indiaca.


Thanks for watching
•Stay safe and happy


References
International indiaca association:  http://www.indiaca-iia.com/technical-matters/indiaca-rules/
Wikipedia:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiaca
Videos are from this link: https://youtu.be/34rJl5XzJjk