The Makahiki Games Festival

{Authentic Hawaiian Olympic Games…Team Challenge}

The Hawaiians have always been a highly competitive and skillful people. For hundreds of years they have played at physical, as well as mentally challenging games of skill. The “Makahiki Festival”, similar to our summer Olympics, drew thousands upon thousands of people from all of the neighbor islands. In order for the Hawaiians to reach the island where the “Festival of Games” was taking place, they had to paddle their outrigger canoes, with family on board, thru the dangerous ocean channels separating the Islands.

Many of these tribal members were warriors and the competitors in the games, but thousands came as spectators, preparing to cheer on their heroic island athletes.

So come and join us, as your teams of warrior athletes prepare to participate in the ancient “Makahiki Games Festival”

INCLUSIONS

Colorful and festive flags and event banner, games and challenge equipment, props, décor, costumes and body paints, uniformed H C G staff. {Referees, game facilators, scorekeepers and announcer, medical assistant}, multi-channel sound system, uplifting Hawaiian “Olympic” music and arena march in by tribe athletes. Olympic Awards presentation….customized gold silver and bronze Olympic medals, set up and strike/clean-up.

Our most popular, challenging and competitive

MAKAHIKI games are:

* “ ULUMAIKA” distance and accuracy stone rolling

“ LONO MAKA IHI” spear throwing accuracy

“ KILU” gourd and coconut spinning accuracy contest

“ POLOLU SLIDE” spear slide

“ COCONUT BOWLING”

“PINEAPPLE TOSS”

In addition to these games are tribal challenges!

Hula contest…Tribal leader’s beauty pageant, Conch shell blowing competition… Race of the tiger sharks… The Tongan tug of war… and tribal chant competition.

“ THE MAKAHIKI GAMES FESTIVAL”

** AUTHENTIC HAWAIIAN OLYMPIC GAMES!

 

GAMES DESCRIPTION

1- LONO MAKA IHE.... (SPEAR THROW) ..BAMBOO SPEARS ARE TO STICK INTO TARGETS PLACED ON BANANA TREE TRUNKS!

2- KILU ....(GOURD & COCONUT SPINNING ACCURACY CONTEST) GOURDS AND COCONUTS ARE SPLIT IN HALF, THEN SKILLFULLY SPUN ONTO A LARGE GRASS CLOTH MATT.. THE OBJECT IS TO HAVE YOURS STOP CLOSEST TO THE STRATEGICALLY PLACED UPRIGHT PEG OR CYLINDER.

3- ULUMAIKA ....(STONE ROLLING ACCURACY CONTEST) PERFECTLY HONED AND BALANCED FIVE-INCH STONES ARE ROLLED A DISTANCE OF THIRTY FEET. THE OBJECT IS TO HAVE YOUR STONE ACCURATELY PASS BETWEEN TWO PEGS PLACED ONE FOOT APART!

4-POLOLU SLIDE.... (SPEAR ACCURACY SLIDE).. THIS FORM OF COMBAT WAS PRACTICED BY HAWAIIAN WARRIORS WHILE PREPARING FOR BATTLE. LONG SPEARS, CALLED TRIPPING STICKS, WERE SLID FORCEFULLY ALONG THE GROUND. THE OBJECT WAS TO HAVE THE SPEARS STOP ACCURATELY BETWEEN FOUR COLORFUL BAMBOO PEGS. THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS PRACTICE WAS TO KNOCK THEIR COMBATIVE ADVERSARIES TO THE GROUND BY TRIPPING THEM, IN ORDER TO HAVE THEM AT THEIR MERCY.

5-COCONUT BOWLING.... COCONUTS, ACCURATELY ROLLED A DISTANCE OF THIRTY FEET MUST STRIKE STRATEGICALLY PLACED GOURDS, KNOCKING THEM OUT OF THEIR CIRCLE OF ROPE!

6-PINEAPPLE TOSS…PINEAPPLES TOSSED APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FEET, MUST LAND IN STRATEGICALLY PLACED BUSHELS.