Filipino Sports

Have you ever wondered how many sports we normally play when we were children? Well, we might be surprised to know before baseball or football, basketball or or board games like chess, we have games that existed that already almost obsolete.

Object of the game

Individual sipa

Sipa team competition

Who could beat the Filipinos in mind puzzling and muscle flexing games like sipa, siato, patintero and moro-moro. These games, no doubt, are far more engaging than football and baseball and require more tactical skills and strategic planning. 

  

While most modern sports were introduced to the Philippines only in the 20th century, Filipinos for centuries have developed and perfected games like arnis de mano, which could match Europe's fencing; dumog, wrestling; sikaran, martial arts; patintero or tubigan, football; siato, baseball; moro-moro, Stratego; luksong baka, high jump; bato-bato, relay; tarumpo, tops; paligsahang kalabaw, equestrian; and dama, chess checker. 

Among other native sports in the country are buchay, bunong braso, buwan buwan, culliot, kalahoyo, lanse, lubi lubi, luksong alon, luksong lubid, luksong palia, luksong tinik, palo sebo, paluan ng palayok, piko-piko, sangkayaw, sumping, sungka, takip silim, tsakad and tumbang preso. 


Some sports that are listed in here I am not familiar with. But who knows what else is out in the memory of an old man. It might die along with the generation.