Flood Colosseum

Water fills

Match clock starts on dry sand. Mid-bout the sluice opens. By the late bell you are thigh-deep, chest-deep, or floating on a ring while the partner still has footing. Depth tiers stamp on the bout sheet: ankle, waist, neck, full flood with breath holds marked optional.

Floor grates keep oil and seed from turning the bowl into a pure slip death. Mostly. Bare feet still lose purchase when the kick lands and the crowd howls.

Trial shapes

Standing kicks — cock and sack targets, no ground game until the water forces a clinch. Holds — rope, thigh lock, or partner pin on the center post while the level climbs. Wheel-adjacent spectacle — a portable cock-loop drum or mini trough spun for the stands when Bamboo Wheel overflow needs a harbor stage. Not a full valley sentence. Enough splash and noise.

Bout desk also books cross-port cards from Campo do Saco and circle nights out of Roda do Chute—same kick grammar, wetter floor.

Audience Dick Coin and Heat

Stands throw Solmarks as Dick Coin toward the man they want to see edged, flooded, or cut free. Heat meters on the rail chart climb with noise, finishes, and how long a man holds the post after the yield word. Camera flags from Take Bay are optional and stamped separate—public trial is not automatic film rights.

Verbs the bowl uses: sluice, standing kick, post hold, Tip rail, drain bell.

Yield rules

Yield word stops the bout cold. Pumps pause or reverse on medic signal. Rope cutters work from the ring edge; no drowned theater. A man who yields still may take a light display lap—walk or float the rail once—if both stamped spectacle-after-yield. No stamp, no lap. Drain bell ends the card; losers towel off toward Porto Gostoso bars or the recovery bench under the stands.

House rule

Eighteen and up; all men in the sand and water. Light cards welcome; mean cards need dual stamps. Medics on every flood. The colosseum is municipal dirty sport, not a drowning pit—safety first, splash second, your cock third if the kick sheet says so.