Importance of Sports in the Philippines
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Every Filipino loves sports and for them it makes them feel okay after doing the
sports they really like to do. Filipino even young ones really play games or sports they
make them healthy and fit when they doing sports activities especially when they feel
stress and exhausted. Sport helps us mentally and physically fit. That’s why almost all
Filipinos have their own sports and activities in their daily life. Sport is one of the things
that show us being Filipino. Most Filipino love sports and it is taught not only by the
school how to play it but also it is taught by our family who really loves sports in a
different field.
At present, the Philippines complete in different field of sports and receive different
kinds of a medal in different kinds of the sport internationally. The Philippines seeks
Filipino athletes who have a heart and passion to complete the Philippines Olympic
International and be the next generation to become a champion. The government also
support the Philippines Sports Commission to promote the sports and to help all Filipino
athletes to train well and encourage them to have a goal to be the Asian champions in
different field of the sports.
The Philippines sports committee has many parts that handle in the different field of
sports.
• Philippine Olympic Committee. It is a non-government organization.
• Philippine Sports Commission
• Department of Sports
• Philippines Southeast Asian Games
• Palarong Pambansa
• Philippine National Game
Before the sports in the Philippines is commonly played by children like Patintero,
Chinese garter, Sungka, and Luksong Tinik or Luksong Baka. This sport is one of the
traditional sports in the Philippines that a lot of children playing. Moreover, on this day a
lot of different sports are nowhere in the Philippines, and Filipino love playing them.
Local Sports ( Children’s Play ) of Filipino
1. Sungka 4. Sipa 7. Pantintero
2. Arnis 5. Silat 8. Chinese Garter
3. Sikaran or Martial arts 6. Palo-Sebo
Sports in the Philippines is an important part of the country's culture.
major sports in the Philippines: basketball, boxing, tennis, football, billiards, and volleyball.
Despite being a tropical nation, ice skating has recently become a popular sport in the
Philippines. Sports such as athletics, weightlifting, aerobics, and martial arts are also
popular recreations.
On July 27, 2009, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed Republic Act No. 9850 into
law, declaring Arnis as the Philippine National Martial Art and Sport.
ARNIS
Arnis is the national martial art sport of Philippines. It is also known as Eskrima and Kali.
This sport actually emphasizes weapon-based fighting which is done using knives,
bladed weapons, sticks and various improvised weapons. It also includes hand to hand
combat, grappling and weapon disarming methods.
1. Basketball, game played between two teams of five players each on a rectangular
court, usually indoors. Each team tries to score by tossing the ball through the
opponent’s goal, an elevated horizontal hoop and net called a basket.
2. Tennis, original name lawn tennis, game in which two opposing players (singles) or
pairs of players (doubles) use tautly strung rackets to hit a ball of specified size,
weight, and bounce over a net on a rectangular court. Points are awarded to a player
or team whenever the opponent fails to correctly return the ball within the prescribed
dimensions of the court.
3. Boxing is a sport that involves two athletes fighting each other, trying to punch their
opponent with padded gloves on their fists. Fights usually last three to twelve rounds,
with each round usually lasting three minutes.
It is also one of the famous sports in the Philippines and brings honors and
dignity to the Filipino when our Boxing champion Manny Pacquiao become one of the
most popular and stand out in this kind of sports. There are also a lot of Filipino who
give pride in the Philippines like Pancho Villa, Flash Elorde, Ceferino Garcia, and a
lot more. For Filipino, their kind of boxing without a ring is called “suntukan” which
means fighting.
4. Football, also called association football or soccer, game in which two teams of 11 8. Badminton, court or lawn game played with lightweight rackets and a shuttlecock.
players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to maneuver Historically, the shuttlecock (also known as a “bird” or “birdie”) was a small cork
the ball into the opposing team’s goal. Only the goalkeeper is permitted to handle the hemisphere with 16 goose feathers attached and weighing about 0.17 ounce (5
ball and may do so only within the penalty area surrounding the goal. The team that grams).
scores more goals wins.
9. Sepak Takraw is a foot volleyball game where players touch as well as handle the
5. Billiards is a game played on a large table, in which you use a long stick called a
ball using only their feet, knee, chest and head. The rules and regulations of the
cue to hit balls against each other or into pockets around the sides of the table.
game are very much similar to that of volleyball. A very popular game around
In 2001, the Philippines won some prestigious sports awards in the International
Southeast Asia, the game is played using a rattan or synthetic ball. Since 1990,
Billiard Tournament and proves to other countries that Filipino Efren Bata Reyes is
Sepak takraw is also included in Asian games.
one of the best in billiard. He was called ” the Magician” in this kind of sport. He also
awarded as a Hall of Fame from the Billiard Congress of America being the first
10. Athletics, also called track-and-field sports or track and field, a variety of
Asian who win and still become simple and humble despite the victories he has.
competitions in running, walking, jumping, and throwing events.

6. Volleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the
11. Weightlifting, sport in which barbells are lifted competitively or as an exercise.
players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make
the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned.
12. Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise
To prevent this a player on the opposing team bats the ball up and toward a
with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements
teammate before it touches the court surface—that teammate may then volley it
of fitness (flexibility, muscular strength, and cardio-vascular fitness).
back across the net or bat it to a third teammate who volleys it across the net. A
team is allowed only three touches of the ball before it must be returned over the
13. A martial art is a style of combat, in many instances directed towards the self-
net.
defense. In the common usage, the word applies to the systems of combat
7. Baseball, game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine developed in all the world.
players each on a field with four white bases laid out in a diamond (i.e., a square
oriented so that its diagonal line is vertical). Teams alternate positions as batters Martial art, any of various fighting sports or skills, mainly of East Asian origin, such
as kung fu, judo, karate, and kendo.
(offense) and fielders (defense), exchanging places when three members of the
batting team are “put out.” As batters, players try to hit the ball out of the reach of
the fielding team and make a complete circuit around the bases for a “run.” The
team that scores the most runs in nine innings (times at bat) wins the game.