The game "patok catfish"

The game "patok catfish" is a very classic and famous children game in rantau Malay. It's just that, since the late 1990s, this game has been rarely played. Modern video games as well as electronic gaming facilities in the malls make this traditional game displaced.

According to some, the traditional game catfish statue originally came from the Kampar community (now part of Riau). But certainly, this game is known known throughout the Malay rantau.
This game is performed by teenagers as well as adults, whether male or female, but usually more dominantly performed by boys. This game is done to fill the spare time.
This game uses a simple material, which is two small pieces of wood that serve as the mother and child. Child patok catfish measuring about 10 cm from wood as wide as 3 cm. While the parent form of a long rod approximately 40 cm long and 3 cm wide.

How to play it is very simple (but quite difficult for those who have not been trained). The son of a catfish is inserted in a pit, then beaten the tip so that it crosses upwards, and then strikes as hard as possible forward.
Another version for beginners, children patched the catfish on two blocks and then gouged so thrown as far as possible. Another level, the child cat catfish and its mother held in one hand, then his son thrown up and hit.

The opposing party must catch the catfish that is thrown, otherwise it will be a point for the club beat. This part is the most difficult part, because not infrequently the children are injured exposed wooden balingan, or swollen.

Another risk, a child catfish can also hit the child's eyes. Because of this danger, many parents forbid their children to play catfish stakes.