Physical Education: Philippine Traditional Games and Sports
Physical Education: Philippine Traditional Games and Sports
MODULE 1
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PIKO (HOPSCOTCH)
Preparations:
1. Draw the playing court on the ground with a sharp stick. (Five
rectangles arranged vertically with rectangles 3 and 5 divided
equally (3a and 3b) and (5a and 5b) and (a half moon for no. 6) A
horizontal line is also drawn on the 4th rectangle to be used for
manuhan purposes.
Note.
3. If you are the first player, toss your pamato to rectangle no. 1.
Neither the player nor the pamato
“pamato”.
8. Pick up your pamato and with your back turned against the
rectangle play area, toss your pamato . Towards the direction
of the play area. The compartment where the pamato lands
becomes your home or “bahay”. You may write your name on
your “bahay”.
9. Start the game all over again without passing through the
homes won by players. The owner of the home or “bahay” is
the only privileged player to land on his home or “bahay”.
10. Play the game all over again until all compartments have
been won as homes. The player with the most number of
homes, wins.
TATSING
“Tatsing” is a game enjoyed by youngsters in the backyard.
“Tatsing” comes from the English word touching.
The objective of the game is to hit the bottle caps out of the square
with one’s stone or “pamato” from the tow line. The player, who hits
the most number of bottle caps out of the square, wins.
The bottle caps may be substituted with marbles, rubber bands and
coins.
ACTIVITY 1
ACTIVITY 2
DAMA (CHECKERS)
This is another familiar game and familiar pastime.that uses skill,
usually played by males 10 years old and above, and played either
indoors or outdoors. The game is played on a small wooden board
with 10 squares and 14 end points. The checkers (dama) pieces are
comprised of 24 pitsas made from pieces of small bamboo, stones,
or bottles caps, with the players having 12 pieces each. The players
position the 12 pieces of pitsa on the end points of the diagram. The
players move alternately from from point to point. Like chess, the
game ends once the opponents pitsas are captured or literally
eaten, especially the dama or queen
SUNGKA
For as long as anyone can remember, there has always been a
sungka board in the Filipino homes. The sungka board is a small
treasure-the older it is, the more precious, it sits on a side table
or a top a bench, waiting to be played.
SUNGKA BOARD
A shallow boat
made of solid
wood at both ends of, which are large deep bowls carved out of
the wood. The whole length of the boat is lined with seven
smaller bowls carved in pairs.
How to play:
1. Sungka is always played by two people.
1. At the signal "Get Set," the players stand at the starting line with
their stilts.
2. At the signal "Go," the players mount their stilt and start
walking.
3. The first player that reaches the finish line without getting off the
stilts wins.
4. A player losses if he get off the stilts twice before reaching the
finish line, or gets off the stilt after two steps.
This is a very common game among the youth all over the
country, played in backyards, parks or even in streets with less
vehicular traffic. The equipment needed are empty milk can, slipper
or a piece of flat stone as "pamato."
For the purpose of making the game enjoyable and exciting, the
composition of players should not be more than 9. The principle
involved is to hit and knock down the milk can with the "pamato,"
and for the IT to put back the can inside a small circle a few meters
away from the toe-line. When a player is tag while re-covering his
pamato, he becomes thde IT.
4. When the can is hit and went off the circle but remains standing,
the IT has the right to tag the hitter once the hitter leaves the toe-
line.
6. If a hitter is not able to retrieve his "pamato," the others can save
him by hitting the can
Do you know that these indigenous games