Additional Notes

Galah Panjang is balanced heavily in favour to skinny, lanky
people: they have long reach as "blockers", and little surface
grope-area as "runners". People with a high amount of surface area would naturally be highly disadvantageous. Also,
since this game (like all rakyat games) is not regulated by any
national or international governing body, changing the rules
to suit your situation and context is highly encouraged. 
Both teams are allowed to use whatever means of trickery
and deceit to achieve its goals, as long as the following conditions are met:

• "Blockers" stay within their designated lines

• "Runners" stay within the grid

• All player keep out of the sides of the grid

Rules & Regulation

Hi! on this fourth entry, I am going to explain about the rules and regulation of Galah Panjang. All right, the rules are quite simple as it only contained three main rules. The rules are

1. If the courts can touch the guardian of the child, the child will "die" or end of his turn to play and are required to exit the field.
2. If the defending team touching the chief, then all members of the attacker will expire and will swap the turn between attacker and defender.
3. The attacking team will be considered as the winner when one of the players can pass all the lines to return to the starting line. One point is given to the team and the game will run again.

Galah Panjang: The Demo

Hi! On this 3rd entry, i will show you guys how to play Galah Panjang. This is the video of me playing Galah Panjang with my friends. Enjoy!

How To Play This Game?

Galah panjang is not as difficult as any other traditional games, but it can test the intelligence, efficiency and pace of each player.

• Before the game can begin, use the chalk to mark the game area. Click here to download the sample diagram you’ll need to draw.

• The objective of the “running” team is to get to the other end of the Galah Panjang court. Players will have to do this by avoiding and cleverly manouvering past the “tagging” team.

• Divide the players into 2 equal groups. For each group, appoint a team leader.

• Decide with the team leaders which team will be the runners and taggers. One way to do this is by playing Scissors, Paper & Stone!

• The “running” team will have to take their places in area 1, behind first the horizontal line (refer to the downloaded PDF).

• The “tagging” team will then take their respective places on the assigned lines. It’s usually a good idea to spread out the “tagging” team on the Galah Panjang court to increase the chances of capturing the opposing team!

• Start the game Players from the “tagging” team are not allowed to run away from the lines they have been assigned to. Meaning, players from the “running” team who are making their way to Area 5, can stop in any each area to ‘rest’ or ‘pause’ during the game.

• Each time a player from the “running” team makes it to Area 5, the team gets a point. However, should a “running” player get caught, the point then is awarded to the “tagging” team.

• To win, the players from the “running” team would have to come out with a strategy to get past the players from the “tagging” team. If one or many of the runners succeed to get into the same area, it would be easy to defeat the taggers and finally run back to area I.

• The game continues until one team obtains the highest points.

Lets Try!

Galah Panjang

Hi! welcome to my blog! this blog is created to give info about our Malay traditional sports that nearly forgotten by the youngsters. Okay for the first traditional sport, i decided to choose Galah Panjang. What is Galah Panjang? Galah Panjang is a traditional games played outside the house. This game not only played by children, but as a show at the cultural festivals is sometimes shown to tourists by the adults. This game is not played as individuals, but the two groups. This game is Consists of the attacker and the defending team. Each team has a player is not less than a total of four people and usually consists of ten players.

One of the members of that group will be appointed as the head and the other is for crew only. Duties as head of the group are to monitor each of the attackers entering and leaving the arena, which is along the lines beginning, the middle line and the line around the field. While the crew take care of only horizontal lines on the court. Before the game started a vote by “wan tu som” conducted by both the team leader. The winning side will be the attacking team. Setting the switch turns the calculation will be determined in advance, if only to nudge the body to catch the player or players.