Hantam bola

[LITTLEREDDOT]

Do the kids play this game nowadays? It was one of the most fun games from the past. Provides a good workout too with all that running. (Hardly any kids who play this game end up being obese.) And one of the cheapest game too. Cost less than a dollar to buy a ball and all one needs is an open area to run around.

 

[erection2015]

no...dont see any kids play this game at all. Nowadays they do paintball.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

We actually played this with our form teacher in sec school and she's a female.

 

[whoami]

Yes. Those days we had Malays, Chinese and Indians playing such game in school fields.

Nowadays??

 

[Baimi]

I played from primary to secondary
Primary teachers no hue.
Secondary at St. Pat, this Mrs. Chew
saw us, confiscate the ball and throw into
the canal.

 

[Kuailan]

I was very good at hantam bola in my younger days, catch tennis ball with left hand and
whack anyone in front with the right hand. However one big problem my left hand catching the
ball with such impact that my 3 left finger became distorted, the centre joint looks like
pregnant, can't wear gold ring! This happened during our youth, age around 11-12 years old!!

 

[Lizzert]

no...dont see any kids play this game at all. Nowadays they do paintball.

Used to play it when younger, but as grow older changed to playing hantam batang..same theory but this time hit girls with with your love-stick although
the girls would sometimes revert to old game and continue to play with your bola(s)

 

[Charlie99]

For sure, we played hantam bola, marbles (big ones, and the coloured ones), fly kites, catch spiders, etc.

 

[laksaboy]

Kids these days just don't play traditional games anymore. Marbles, chateh, hopscotch, sepak takraw.

All of them are besotted with their smartphone games.

 

[kingrant]

There were a few of us who could run away from the ball thrower and yet turn around while running and catch the thrown ball and then reverse and throw it back!

You must have a fast eye and a quick hand.

 

[Froggy]

Two types of balls we used

1. A brown rubber ball with some pattern on it, this one is soft but kenna whack on the face sure red for whole day of course kenna hit on the head everyone will shout "tao-pio-ah"

2. Tennis ball this is harder but funny thing not as painful

 

[Charlie99]

Two types of balls we used

1. A brown rubber ball with some pattern on it, this one is soft but kenna whack on the face sure red for whole day of course kenna hit on the head everyone will shout "tao-pio-ah"

2. Tennis ball this is harder but funny thing not as painful

As a boy, it is easier to throw the rubber ball.

 

[erection2015]

thats the natural progression bro....imagine growing older and still playing the kiddies type hantam bola.

Used to play it when younger, but as grow older changed to playing hantam batang..same theory but this time hit girls with with your love-stick although
the girls would sometimes revert to old game and continue to play with your bola(s)

 

[Tuayapeh]

Tennis ball esp those pampchek used ones that the tennis players discard are the best.......

 

[halsey02]

For sure, we played hantam bola, marbles (big ones, and the coloured ones), fly kites, catch spiders, etc.

I usually have fresh tennis balls from home, for family used to play tennis on a regular basis. Usually end up home with tennis ball marks on pants, shirt & everybody gets their share too, especially after a downpour, that includes messy socks & shoes & hairs. That is why we have wimpy kids these days.

Marbles, used to have buckets of them colored ones at home & kept for years, until it went to the fish aquarium & years later, dumped them out, when they became old. The other marbles, buy the hard ones & get a good ones, hamtam the day lights of the opponents. There were times I cheated, painted the ball bearing with paint, almost exactly the same color as the original... ha ha ha

Climb fences, climb slopes..climb..whatever to get that 'tok gong' male spider to fight & be the champion...keeping them in matchbox or those lozenges or jujubes steel boxes... sometimes, you get played out, you get a male that is somewhere in between, that's when we learn the word, 'ah qua'... ha ha ha ha

Fly kites...& carry bamboo poles waiting for those who fall out of the skies...chasing them across the roads, over the whatever, never minding the traffic or whatever..& fighting with the other boys for the kites, with the bamboo stick..eventually breaking the kite... heh heh heh
Pound glasses, boil glue, the ones we could buy back them, before people started sniffing them, "ow pei go"...& dip strings in them, so that I have glass strings for kite fighting..

Water pistols use to find the best from the stores...& what else, 'cuti, cutii' by the boxes, picture cards by the stacks...rubber bands, paper pellets, catapult...sure misses all the fun, when young...what does the young ones these days..huddle over the smartphone...playing games.

How not for them to get all sort of health problems or dieases?? none, run free in the fields..& there not many fields too. Not to mention, bicycle riding without the helmets, pads etc..you fall, you fall. The same with the roller skates..the steel ones of the past..then we have basketball, ping pong game, badminton, tennis...hide & seek...

Those were the days...kids these days are wimps! no wonder get paid for $500 can cower...:p

 

[scroobal]

I recall there were seasons for these games for some reason. Till today I have no idea why? Rounders for couple of weeks, then kite fighting probably because of the winds, then badminton, then marbles etc. I remember Hamtam Bola, spiders, tadpoles hide and seek were filler sports and not driven by seasons.

Used to do a lot of exploring as well, walking a little further without parents knowledge (testing the boundaries).

I usually have fresh tennis balls from home, for family used to play tennis on a regular basis. Usually end up home with tennis ball marks on pants, shirt & everybody gets their share too, especially after a downpour, that includes messy socks & shoes & hairs. That is why we have wimpy kids these days.

..:p

 

[kingrant]

Especially when the tennis ball landed in the wet drain with stinky stuff in it, you can be sure you dont wanna be the guy who got first imprint of that on your T-shirt or singlet (yea, those days, we hang around in singlets).

Two types of balls we used

1. A brown rubber ball with some pattern on it, this one is soft but kenna whack on the face sure red for whole day of course kenna hit on the head everyone will shout "tao-pio-ah"

2. Tennis ball this is harder but funny thing not as painful

 

[kingrant]

Yeah, and kite flying is nothing without the "soh gulat" rigmarole. You get a couple of pieces of ox bones, boil them into glue, pound glass from broken light bulb, mix them all up and throw in a bobbin of cotton thread, and wind the whole 9 yards ( of cos it's much longer) around some badminton posts, and wait for it to dry. Reel them back up on an Ovaltine can and you are ready for kite fighting!!

Not to mention chasing after loser kites after the string got cut, and you run in and out of cars on the road. You shout 'Dapat!" when you got it first, whether by the tail of the trailing string or hand on the paper. Sometimes, you had to fight for it, and the kite got torn to pieces if neither party wants to give up control. Such a riot!

I recall there were seasons for these games for some reason. Till today I have no idea why? Rounders for couple of weeks, then kite fighting probably because of the winds, then badminton, then marbles etc. I remember Hamtam Bola, spiders, tadpoles hide and seek were filler sports and not driven by seasons.

Used to do a lot of exploring as well, walking a little further without parents knowledge (testing the boundaries).

 

[Charlie99]

We used the rubber from golf balls (picked up from Keppel or Warren Golf Course), boiled or melted it, then mixed with ground or pounded glass to apply it to string (or was it thread?).
Yes, I recall that we wind the string or thread around the net posts on a badminton court.
Abundance of fruits - mangoes, guava, rambutan