the walk is quiet and peaceful, unless a rival bate bola group is encountered, and balls get slammed on the ground by everyone trying to make a louder noise than the other team.

by definition, all bate bolas teams are adversaries - as a rule bate bolas do not roam the streets jointly with other factions, and the slamming of the balls or the rising of the staffs are a sort of tribal war cry.

while in the past bate bolas were known to just scare children, in recent times some have assumed a darker tone.