This video depicts some Filipino Indigenous Games ( Laro ng Lahi). I love this video so much. Sandwich is one of my favorite bands. Rock on and Play?! LOL ^^
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Here are some of the games featured in this video:
Tumbang preso
A popular Filipino street game also known as Presohan.
The game requires 3 or more players. Each player is provided with a large throw-away object (could be slippers or a shoe) called “pamato”. A semi-flattened empty tin or plastic container (the size of an 8 or 12 oz. tins) is placed in upright position 6 or 8 meters from the throwing line. A player is drawn as the prisoner (usually through a system like Jack en Poy). The prisoner will guard the empty tin or container.
The other players stand at the throwing line. They take turns throwing their “pamato” at the empty tin, trying to knock it down. As soon as the can is knocked down, the prisoner must put back the tin in upright position before he can tag the any of the players attempting to recover their “pamato”. If the “pamato” becomes too close to the tin in an upright position, so that the prisoner can step on both with one foot, the owner of the “pamato” becomes the new “prisoner”. The prisoner can also tag the players while recovering their “pamato” outside the throwing line.
After each throw, a player must recover his “pamato”. Should he be tagged by the prisoner before he reaches the throwing line, he becomes the prisoner in the next game.
Syato/Siato
A popular Filipino game between two or more players. Two sticks are used to play this game. One is about two feet long, and the other one about half a foot long. A small hole in the ground is made where the smaller stick will be placed with one end at the bottom and the other end sticking out. The player will hit the smaller stick with the longer one so that the smaller stick flies to the air. At mid-air, the player then hits again the smaller stick with the longer one. This is repeated three times. Whoever hits it to the farthest distance wins the game. As punishment, the loser will be forced to shout the word “siato” without interruption while running back to the original starting place.
Piko (Hopscotch)
2, 4 or 8 players Outdoors, gymnasium
If two players are playing, diagram A is used; if 4 or 8 players, diagram B is used.
Numbers 1, 6, 7, and 8 = buan (moon). Numbers 2 and 5 = dibdib (chest). Numbers 3 and 4 = pakpak (wings). A flat stone, shell, or fruit peeling, is used for pamato (object to be thrown).
The first player is determined as follows: The players stand on the corners of the playground, and each one throws his or her stone. Whoever succeeds in putting the pamato at the intersection of the diagonals has the first play. The next nearest is second and so on.
Part I. The players, before starting the game, choose their own moon. The first hopper will begin in her moon. She throws her pamato in her moon and then hops inside and kicks the pamato out of the moon. Then she throws it again in 2, then in 5, and 6. She hops in and kicks it out after each throw. In hopping, she hops on either left or right foot but lands on both feet when she reaches 3 and 4, and hops again on 5 and 6.
Every player plays the game twice; the first time he begins in his moon, and the second time in his opponent’s moon. When he is through, back and forth, then the second part is started.
Care must be taken in throwing the pamato into their exact places, in hopping and in kicking it out. The pamato and the player’s foot must not touch any of the lines. Should the pamato or the player’s foot touch the line, he stops, and the other player will have his turn. If the second player fails or makes a mistake, then player number one will resume the game.
Part II. The second part of the game is exactly the same as Part I, but instead of hopping, the player walks with his eyes looking towards the sky. After throwing the pamato, he steps in, without looking at the ground, to take the pamato. At every step, he asks, “Have I stepped on the line?” Should he step on the line, the othe rplayer will have his turn. The game goes on as in Part I.
The player who finishes Parts I and II is the winner.
PENALTY: The winner pats the loser’s hand rather heavily from ten to thirty times according to the agreement. This is called bantilan (patting).
Another kind of penalty is the following: The winner blindfolds the loser and takes him to different places. The loser takes a stick or his pamato with him. He drops it at the command of the winner. He is then moved about to many places in order to be confused before he is realeased to look for the stick or pamato. This is called hanapan (to look for something).
Chinese garter
A game requiring flexibility, balance and coordination, is a popular game for Filipino children, most specifically among girls during their elementary years. The game revolves around an ordinary garter, around two to three yards long, which can be brought from the sewing store at around twenty pesos or less.
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Teks (text)
A popular Filipino card game played by children. The cards used in the game (called teks) are very small, about a quarter of the size of regular playing cards. Featured in the cards are cartoon storyboard clips of local films complete with characters’ dialogues and action sequences. The game relies heavily on betting which side will come up, and is decided by flicking the teks in the air. Some players slap the cards against each other in a high five for added effect.
Trumpo/Turumpo (Spinning Top)
A popular outdoor Filipino game of manipulating a wooden top to spin on an axis through a string twirled around it. It is composed of any number of players, although one can enjoy playing it on his own.
Patintero
It is also called Tinubigan, Patubig or Lantay-lantay, is a popular street game among Pinoys. It is considered to be best played and enjoyed at night especially when the moon is full. The players start off the game by marking the ground with a rectangular shape about five to six meters, all divided into equal parts. Chalk or water is the most common kind of marker being used for this game, although sometimes the players may just draw lines on the ground by dragging their feet. The players are then divided into two teams of equal number. One team guards the area and tries to tag the members of the other team without stepping off the lines. The other team tries to get through all the two or three lines without being tagged. Both teams take turns to be runners and guards. Some of the game’s players include the patotot, the pulis and “around the world”.
The playing area is marked-off in a rectangle about five to six meters in, divided into four equal parts. Diagram A is for 6 players, B for 8 or more players.
Winning the toss entitles the players on that team to be runners. The taggers stand on lines 1, 2, and 3. Number 1 can go anywhere to tag the runners. The objective of the runners is to get through all the lines (1, 2, 3) back and forth without being tagged. Taggers 1 and 2 tag the runners as they cross their lines or as they get near them. As soon as one of the runners crosses line 3, he returns to line 1 and calls out, “Tubig!” This means a night (a point) is scored in favor of his team. The team which scores three consecutive “nights” (or three points) is the winner, and will be the runners of the next game.
If a runner is tagged while crossing a line or while trying to cross, the teams exchange places.
Some of the game’s players include the patotot, the pulis and around the world. This street game is also best played and enjoyed during the night especially when the moon is full.
Luksong Baka
It involves jumping over a person who acts as the “baka” (cow). The objective is to successfully jump over the person without falling over him or touching him.
Sipa (Kick)
This daytime outdoor game common to Filipinos, usually of two or more male players, requires kicking skills and is played by singles, doubles or quadruples.
Source : Wikipilipinas
