Kadang-Kadang (Bamboo Stilt)
Kadang-kadang which also means “simple play” is an outdoor game that is played using a bamboo stilt. To play the kadang-kadang, you need a pair of bamboo poles with equal lengths and a stepladder of foot size to serve as the platform for the player’s feet. The bamboo has a height of 10 feet from the ground. But in the present era, Filipinos modified the height of the bamboos making it higher.
The participants’ race using a wooden (usually made of bamboo) stilt with footrests from a starting line to the finish line. The usual distance of the race is 50 meters.
Play Area:
Play field or gymnasium with a distant of more than 100 meters. Draw two parallel lines with a distance of 100 meters. One line will serve as the starting line while the other will serve as a finish line. Mark every 25th meter on the ground from the starting line up to the finish line.
Formation:
Divide players into teams of four players each. There should be a minimum of two and a maximum of four teams per race. Scatter the players of each team by requesting the first player of each team to stand behind the starting line, the second player behind the 25th meter mark, the third player behind the 50th meter mark and the last player behind the 75th meter mark.
Material needed:
Two bamboo poles (per team) of equal length are used with a foot size tongue to serve as platform for player’s feet which are placed over the bamboo’s meridian, one foot from the ground.
1. On signal, all first players ride on their stilts walk to the 25th mark, gives the bamboo stilts to the second player in the team who repeats the action of the first player.
2. The same pattern is repeated until all players have experienced the bamboo stilt race.
3. The first team to reach the finish line without falling from the stilts wins.
Disqualification:
* A Player walks for more than two steps after a fall
* A player falls twice from the bamboo stilts.
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