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REVIEWER IN HOPE 4
Lesson 1: Traditional games in the
Philippines as Recreational
Activities.
Laro ng Lahi - Was coined and
popularized by the Samahang
Makasining (Artist Club), Inc.
(commonly known "Makasining") with
the help of National Commission for
Culture and the Arts and being used by
the other Philippine Local Government
Units, other organizations and
institutions. Imparting these Filipino
games to young Filipinos is one of the
organization's main activities.
Laro ng Lahi
➢These are Filipino indigenous games
that are commonly played by
children, usually using native
materials or instruments.
➢These are social games or team-
building activities.
Usually played outdoors and involve
much physical activity.
Types of Activity:
Indoor Activity - when the activity is
within the premises of your comfort
zone at home or inside a building.
Outdoor Activity - When the activity is
undertaken in a natural, rural, or open
space outside the con nes of
buildings, usually large land area that is
close to nature.
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Categories of Recreation:
Active Recreation - Refers to
recreational activities that require
physical exertion that will contribute to
one’s tness and well-being.
Passive Recreation - Refers to the
recreational activities that are
commonly unorganized and
non-competitive which relatively
involve inactive or less energetic
pursuits.
Common Terms Used in Larong Lahi:
1. Laro - Filipino generic term
pertaining to all forms of
recreational games.
2. Palaro - These are the games that
take place during wakes, festivals,
and town estas.
3. Labanan - Filipino term for
competitive games.
Components of Philippine Games:
1. Players - Provide an idea of who
and what kind of players generally
engage in a game
2. Setting - When and where each
game is commonly played.
3. Props - Short term for ‘properties’
a borrowed word from the drama
term ‘stage properties’ to apply to
the animals and objects used by
the players in the Philippine
Games.
4. Movement - Actions or movements
in every game are presented in a
skeletal pattern showing the
sequential interplay of the
contending players or groups of
players. Examples: running,
walking, jumping, etc.
5. Pre-game - The term “pre-game”
is short for “preparations for a
game” or “preliminaries to game”.
This includes all preliminary
activities prior to the start of the
competitive action in a game.
Examples of Pre-Game:
1. Selecting Leaders - Special
qualities are generally needed in
persons who are to be the leaders
(liders) or captains (kapten). A leader
may be a person who is stronger, taller,
or older.
2. Choosing Sides - In team
competitions, the players are divided
into two or more opposing teams or
groups. A group or leader is rst
elected or chosen and then each
choses his own players.
3. Who will be the “it”? - There are
games that require one player to take
on a role di erent from the rest. Such
players is called “taya” by the
Tagalogs, “bunsao” by the Tausugs,
and is commonly known in various
regions of the Philippines by the
English borrowed term “it”.
Ways to Determine the “IT”:
• Counting rhymes
• Bunutan ng patpat
• Tao o ibon (Head or tails)
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• Tihaya o Taob
• Gansal o Pares
• Jack En Poy
Module 2: Orienteering as an
Recreational Activities:
ORIENTEERING AS RECREATIONAL
ACTIVITY
Orienteering is the sport of navigation,
using a highly detailed map. Whether
you’re an experienced hiker,
competitive runner, or just a family or
group out for an activity in a park, this
sport helps you improve your
navigation each time. Orienteering can
gradually build your map-reading skills
from exploring a local city park full of
obvious structures to navigating
remote terrain with few, if any, man-
made features. A person who engages
in orienteering is called an orienteer.
Orienteering events are timed. If you’re
a runner, running against the clock is a
familiar experience, but orienteering
provides added challenges of a
staggered start and deciding where
your own course goes as you are
running. And if you’re a non-runner,
automatic timing from control to
control provides a way to measure your
navigational e ectiveness across
routes and compare later with others
who made di erent choices. Good
route choice often beats raw speed.
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TYPES OF ORIENTEERING EVENTS
1. CROSS-COUNTRY
ORIENTEERING
Every competitor must visit the same
controls in the same order, therefore it
is a direct challenge in route choosing
and sheer stamina. Usually there are
between six and twenty controls
situated in varying degrees of di culty
and over courses of di erent lengths,
depending on the level of the
competition. Each control is ringed in
red ink on the master map and the
order in which it is to be visited is also
clearly marked. Sometimes the nish is
at the same place as the start, but this
is not essential. All the controls must
be clearly described on the description
sheet.
2. SCORE ORIENTEERING
The area chosen for this type of
competition is dotted with a large
number of control points, care being
taken to ensure that there are more
controls sites that can be possibly
visited by any one person or team in
the allotted time. The near controls
carry a low point value (for example,
ve points) while those at a greater
distance and more di cult to nd carry
corresponding higher point values.
Other types of orienteering events
include:
3. LINE ORIENTEERING
This form of orienteering is staged in
much the same way as cross-country
orienteering in terms of master map,
starting intervals, but there is one major
di erence: No controls are marked on
the map, only the route. The
competitor transcribes this line on his
map then seeks to follow it as carefully
as possible over the terrain. At various
points along this line, hidden controls
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are sites, the location of which is

known only the organizer. The
competitor will only nd a control by
following the line.
4. ROUTE ORIENTEERING
It is similar to line orienteering, only the
route is marked by streamers in the
woods. The competitor will mark on
their map the location of each control.
A penalty is given for distance from the
correct locations.
5. RELAY ORIENTEERING
This is the most popular team
competition. The number of legs in the
relay depends on the number of
persons on a team.
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