DAMPA GAME
The game is played with the use of rubber bands,
known as lastiko in the vernacular. Dampa is the
act of producing air to come out from a hollow
of dome-shaped palms when struck against the ground.
Objective: The player will aim to move the rubber band beyond
the service line through dampa.
Fitness Development: Arm strength
Play Skills Development: Control in producing an amount of air in dampa.
Emotional-Social Development:
Control during the exciting parts of the game, courage
to move the rubber bands beyond the line, waiting ones
turn, and courtesy regarding others mistakes.
Venue: Outdoors or indoors; smooth, flat surface
Players: Children; individual
Materials: Rubber bands
Lay-out of the Playing Area:
Mechanics:
2. Players will alternately dampa the piled rubber
bands on the ground. A player will win in the
game if the player is able to move an odd number
of rubber bands beyond the service line and take
rubber bands that go beyond the line. If an even
number of rubber bands goes beyond the line, the
opponent will take rubber band.
3. Players should not clip the rubber band when
doing the dampa so as not to forfeit the turn to
play.
4. If a player moves an odd number of lastiko
beyond the service line, he will continue the play.
The turn to dampa will change only if an even
number of rubber bands is displaced; then the
opponent will have the turn to play.