Transcript Document 7876133

Content
• Traditional games and sports
• Types of games
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Congkak
Sepak Takraw
Gasing/Top Spinning
Wau
Traditional Games And Sports
• Traditional Malay games and sports
showed the gotong-royong (mutual help)
spirit of the community. Some, like the
congkak, tested intelligence and mental
abilities.
More popular among Malay children and women,
congkak is an indoor game played by two players
by taking turns to fill in the holes on the congkak
board (papan congkak) with congkak seeds (biji
congkak, made usually from saga or rubber seeds
or small marbles). Each player is entitled to eight
holes with the left-most one being his "home". The
player with the most number of seeds in his "home"
wins the game.
Congkak is a game of wit played by womenfolk in
ancient times that required no more than holes in
the earth and tamarind seeds. Today, it has been
refined to a board game. It consists of a wooden
board with two rows of five, seven, or nine holes
and two large holes at both ends called "home".
Congkak, played with shells, pebbles or tamarind
seeds, requires two players.
• Sepak Takraw is a word that comes from two different
languages. Sepak means, “kick” and it came from a
Malay word, whereas Takraw means “ball”, and it came
from a Thai word. This is a game that consists of six
players and the ball is made of plastic. Many countries
have begun to play this type of game like Japan, China,
Thailand and other interested countries.
• The players have to maintain the ball from touching the
ground by using their legs and head only. In the middle
of the Takraw court, there is a net that separates
competitors into two separate sides. The winning score
for this game is 15 points.
• Gasing (top) was a popular Malay game among
children and adults. It was played during festivals or
for leisure. Gasing competitions were often held in
kampongs and in most cases involved the whole
village community.
• Giant top spinning is no child's game! Each gasing
or top weighs approximately 5kg. It calls for
strength, coordination, and skill. The gasing, if
expertly hurled, can spin for as long as 2 hours. Top
spinning competitions are an annual feature in the
east coast of Peninsular Malaysia especially
Kelantan and Terengganu.
• In Malaysia, top spinning is widely practiced in Malay
culture. Tops are very popular and are one of the
necessary games that Malay will perform whenever
there is a cultural performance. A top is as big as a
bowling ball and sometimes it can weigh up to ten
pounds. It is made of wood and tin. To play a game of
top spinning requires players to have skillful spinning
style, and patience in order to wind a string around the
bottom of the top. When every competitor is ready,
players will begin to use their special skills to make their
tops spin on the ground. The player with the longest top
spin time will win the prize.
• Nobody really knows exactly the time when top
spinning was discovered, but the age of the game is
at least 2000 years. A curious child, who was first
using a nut or acorn to spin, discovered it. A child’s
curiosity has turned top spinning into a game that is
practiced worldwide. In China, they call it “TSA LIN”
or “KO-EN-GEN,” in Japan, they call it “Koma
Asobi,” in Europe they call it “Diabolo” and many
other countries in the world also play the game.
• Wau means “kite;” it came from a Malay word.
Wau has a long history; its existence goes back
hundreds of years, when farmers used kites to
keep birds from eating their crops in the fields
and some even used kites as a way to make
their children sleep. The hum of the kite as it is
blown by the wind makes the children. Wau is
made of bamboo. For quality purposes, the
bamboo is split and dried under the sun for two
weeks, as this will prevents weevil attacks and
also makes it more flexible. A wau can reach a
height of more than 450 meters in the sky.
• It is a very popular game that is still practiced in
Malaysia; the two most popular states are Kelantan
and Terengganu. This game is played especially
during harvest time. The most popular waus are
Wau Bulan (Crescent Kite), Wau, Kuching and also
Wau Sobek. Kite flying is the only game that has no
specific rules and every kite-player is free to play as
they wish
Done by : Candy Chen (2)
Bernadine Chia (6)
Devien Law (11)
Tsui Yuqi (25)