![]() Palo sebo is just one of the games that are part of fiestas and celebrations. ![]() Other boys tie small towels to their hands and feet. Some boys smear their palms and soles with ashes. The cleverest boys play as a team and stand on each other’s shoulders, sometimes four at a time, to hoist the topmost boy to the prize. A hitch and another slide, up and then down, a climber hopes to make it all the way to the top. Others say that the climber should take his time. Some people say that it is best to go very fast. There are only a few ways to climb a slippery bamboo pole, and none of them is easy. It is always a race who gets to the top first - if at all. ![]() But there may be as many as ten in a row. In some fiestas, there is just one greased pole. Its sides are shiny and slippery with coconut oil, rubbed on just before the bamboo is set up.Īt its very tip, where a bright banner teases, is the prize. A tall stout bamboo pole, festooned at the top, towers over the plaza. Ito ay uri ng laro na inaakyat ng kalahok ang tagdang kawayan na madulas dahil kinulapulan ng mantika at may nakalaang gantimpala sa tuktok.Ī fiesta is all the more a fiesta when there is a game of palo sebo.
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