Republic of the Philippines

President Ramon Magsaysay State University

(Formerly Ramon Magsaysay Technological University)
Iba, Zambales, Philippines
Tel/Fax No.: (047) 811-1683

College/Department Department of Physical Education

Course Code PEN 1
Course Title Physical fitness and outdoor recreational activities
Place of the Course General Education
in the Program
Semester & First Semester, AY 2020 - 2021
Academic Year

MODULE V
RECREATIONAL OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

INTRODUCTION

Recreation is about human participation in enjoyable activities. It has become

as part and parcel of modern lifestyle. Due to the increasing workload and
pressure in daily routines, people now take part in diversity of recreation
experiences as a mechanism to release their psychological stresses. Recreation
has been known to provide humans with a way to refresh their mind, so that
they are more ready, creative, and innovative when they return to their daily
routine.

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

 Enumerate & explain the different definitions of Recreation
 Value the importance of time as to Recreation
 Perform different Recreational Activities

DISCUSSION

Introduction to Recreation

The word Recreation came from a Latin word “recreare” which carries the
meaning “refresh” or “restore”. According to the Oxford Dictionary (2007), it is
defined as the action of recreating (oneself or another), or the fact of being
recreated, by some pleasant occupation, pastime or amusement. Webster
Dictionary (1971) defines recreation as refreshment of strength and spirits after
toil. Yukie (1970) defined recreation as activity of leisure being discretionary
time.
 Recreation is best described as any voluntarily participation in activities
during leisure time with the conscious objective to achieve benefit upon the
participation.

Recreation is an inseparable part of our day to day life. There is no

happiness without adequate recreation. Among all forms of recreation, outdoor
recreational activities are very popular and these types of activities are also very
effective to keep ourselves healthy. When our recreational activity engages in
excitement, physical challenge, or risk, such as in mountain biking or rock
climbing, it is sometimes called to adventure recreation.

Outdoor or adventure recreational activities are pre-eminently physical,

though, at times they may also be mentally satisfying and spiritually rewarding.
So, these activities are always physically demanding and want us to be in
excellent physical form. Most outdoor activities require various technical skills
that may not be so easy for most of the people to acquire and the sense of
achievement encourages us to get full control over those skills.

People generally like to engage in recreational activities in during their free

time. Unlike any leisure activities, recreation is socially rewarded and sometimes
it has moral value. So, we feel proud to get a chance to participate in this type of
activities. Examples of recreational activities are boundless including sports,
music, games, travel, reading, arts, crafts, and even dance. We can also call
recreation as a social instrument because of its contribution to the development
of our society.

Different Definitions of Recreation

Recreation contributes to vibrant and engaged individuals and
communities, fostering personal, social, economic and environmental well-being.
It touches on many aspects of our lives nourishing people and building strong
families and communities.

RECREATION involves leisure-time activities in which people choose to

participate. It can be active (e.g. walking the dog, playing soccer) or passive (e.g.
reading a book, enjoying a concert). Recreation can include physical activity,
sport, arts, cultural activities and community events.

COMMUNITY RECREATION is about the informal leaders (parents, youth,

coaches, teachers and other volunteers) who make recreation happen and about
meaningful and accessible activities that the community creates for its own
benefit.

LEISURE includes the activities, pursuits or actions people enjoy and therefore
choose to do in their time away from work and other responsibilities.
SPORT is a type of physical activity with rules and is often a contest to determine
a winner. In recreational sport, the emphasis is more on participation and the
development of fundamental movement and sport skills.

ACTIVE LIVING, or active, healthy living, indicates the connection between an

active lifestyle and a healthy lifestyle. Active living means we value and integrate
physical activity into our daily routines. Active living is one component of a
healthy lifestyle.

PARKS are associated with recreation, particularly in the context of public or

municipal recreation. They are outdoor environments developed for our
enjoyment and include playgrounds, developed and natural green-space, land
and water trails, and government-designated parks.

OUTDOOR SPACES refers to our outdoor environments where people choose to

recreate and include parks, playgrounds, community gardens, skating rinks,
streets, schoolyards and fields, trails, waterways, campgrounds, green-space,
and “the Bush”.

RECREATION PLACES refers to facilities and community infrastructure providing

opportunities to participate in recreation. These places include community halls,
recreation complexes, arenas and pools, libraries, schools, museums, art
galleries, private gyms, etc. that are the indoor spaces people usually use for
recreation.

ARTS reflect culture and are a way of communicating through a medium that
can be shared with others. Arts may be categorized as visual (e.g. drawing,
painting, photography, architecture), literary (e.g. writing, comics, blogging),
performing (e.g. music, theatre, dance), culinary, etc.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES within a recreation context, reflect local heritage, social

traditions and popular trends. Participation may involve traditional games and
celebrations (e.g. stick gambling, drumming), special events and festivals (e.g.
Dawson City Music Festival, Sourdough Rendezvous), visits to facilities (e.g.
museums, art galleries, historic sites), reading (e.g. books, newspapers), listening
to music (e.g. radio, iPod, concerts), etc

Outdoor Recreation Activities

Outdoor recreation activities defined as those activities that:

 are undertaken outside the confines of buildings (ie, in the outdoors); and
 can be undertaken without the existence of any built facility or
infrastructure; and
 may require large areas of land, water and/or air; and
  may require outdoor areas of predominantly unmodified natural
landscape.

Outdoor Recreational Activities

Recreational areas offer an assortment of outdoor recreational activities.

The national parks, forests and other public lands offering the activity
you're interested in, including:

• Biking
• Boating
• Camping
• Climbing
• Fishing
• Hiking
• Horseback Riding
• Hunting
• Recreational Sports

Common Outdoor Recreational Activities and Sports in the Philippines

There are some superb wilderness areas in the Philippines and dozens of
volcanoes and mountains to be climbed, from the tallest in the country, Mount
Apo (2954m), to more manageable peaks close to Manila in Batangas and Rizal
provinces, some of which can be tackled in a day-trip. The country also offers
opportunities for caving, white water rafting, surfing and sailing. When it comes
to sport, basketball and boxing are among the biggest passions in the
Philippines.

But for a sizeable proportion of the tourists who visit the Philippines every
year, the main attraction is the scuba diving.

The abundance of exceptional dive sites and the high standard of diving
instruction available have made the archipelago one of the world’s foremost
diving destinations.

Scuba Diving

Diving is one of the most popular activities in the Philippines and

one of the best dive sites in the world. It’s possible year-round here, with
surface water temperatures in the 25–28°C range, the warmest conditions
being from February to June. On deeper dives temperatures can drop to
22°C due to the upwelling of deeper, cooler water, so a wet suit is essential.
During the typhoon season from June to November, be prepared for your
plans to be disrupted if a major storm hits and dive boats are unable to
venture out. Visibility depends on water temperature, the strength of the
current and wind direction, but generally lies in 10–30m range, as good as
anywhere in the world. Popular locations include the coast around
Palawan, the wrecks around Coron Town, Puerto Galera, Padre Burgos,
Anilao and the more remote but scintillating reefs at Tubbataha and Apo.

Trekking and climbing

The Philippines offer plenty of opportunities to explore pristine

wilderness areas. Luzon, for example, has the Sierra Madre and the
Balbalasang-Balbalan National Park in Kalinga, both rarely visited by
tourists and offering exhilarating trekking through dense rainforest and
across dizzying peaks. In Bicol there are some terrific volcano climbs
(Mount Mayon and Mount Isarog, for instance), while Mindoro, Palawan 47
and the Visayas between them have dozens of national parks, heritage
areas, wildlife sanctuaries and volcanoes. Mount Kanlaon, an active
volcano in Negros, is one of the country’s more risky climbs, while the
nearby Northern Negros Forest Reserve is a raw, mesmerizing landscape
of peaks, waterfalls and fumaroles, typical of wilderness areas throughout
the archipelago.

The country actually has more than sixty national parks and
protected areas, but because funds for their management are scarce, you
won’t find the kind of infrastructure that exists in national parks in the
West. While the most popular climbs – Mount Apo in Mindanao
and Mount Pulag in Mountain province, for example – have trails that
are relatively easy to find and follow, it’s important to realize that trails are
generally poorly maintained and hardly marked, if they’re marked at all.
There are seldom more than a few badly paid wardens or rangers
responsible for huge tracts of land. Where accommodation exists, it will
be extremely basic. Some national parks have administrative buildings
where you might be able to get a bed in a dorm for the night, or where you
can roll out a mattress or sleeping bag on the floor. They may also have
basic cooking facilities, but the closest you’ll get to a shower is filling a
bucket and washing outside. Deep within park territory, the best you can
hope for is a wooden shack to shelter in for the night.

Caving

It’s hardly surprising that caving – spelunking – is a growth

industry, as there are huge caves to explore throughout the country. The
largest cave systems are in northern Luzon – in Sagada and in Cagayan
province near Tuguegarao, where the Peñablanca Protected Area has three
hundred caves, many deep, dangerous and not yet fully explored. The
other exciting caving area is the Sohoton Natural Bridge National Park in
Samar.

Surfing

Surfing is also becoming popular, with good waves in eastern Bicol,

Catanduanes, eastern Mindanao (especially Siargao Island and Tandag),
and around San Fernando in La Union. There are also any number of
hard-to-reach areas in the archipelago that are visited only by a handful
of die-hard surfers, such as Baler in northern Luzon, or around Borongan
in eastern Samar.

Basketball

The Filipinos embraced basketball as they did everything else

American, from pizza to popcorn. Every barrio and town has a basketball
court, even if all it consists of are a couple of makeshift baskets nailed to
wooden poles in the church plaza. The major league – the equivalent of the
NBA – is the Philippine Basketball Association, founded in 1975. Ten
teams compete for honors, all of them sponsored by a major corporation
and taking their sponsors’ name. You might find yourself watching
Meralco Bolts play Powerade Tigers, or San Miguel Beermen take on Talk
’N Text Tropang Texters. PBA games are all played in Manila for details.
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The San Miguel Beermen is the most successful team, while the
Barangay Ginebra Kings is the most popular. The players are household
names to most Filipinos; James Yap (with the Derby Ace Llamados), Jayjay
Helterbrand (Barangay Ginebra Kings), Kelly Williams (Talk ’N Text), Willie
Miller (Barangay Ginebra Kings) and Dondon Hontiveros (San Miguel
Beermen) command huge attention.

Boxing

Boxing has been big business in the Philippines since the Americans
introduced the sport in the early twentieth century. In recent years, one
name stands out in particular: Manny “the Pacman” Pacquiao, the poor
boy from Mindanao who became world champion. Though you are
unlikely to see the great man himself, fights are held almost every week,
with major venues in Caloocan (Manila), Cebu City, Mandaluyong (Manila),
Tagaytay City, Victoria (Negros) and Taytay in the Luzon province of
Rizal. Tickets are cheap and often sell out; whenever there’s a bout of any
significance Filipinos gather around every available television set. You can
check schedules for fights.

In addition to Manny Pacquiao, at the time of writing the Philippines

could boast another four world champions: Nonito “The Filipino Flash”
Donaire, Gerry Peñalosa, Donnie “Ahas” Nietes and Brian “Hawaiian
Punch” Viloria.

Pool

Every town and city in the country has some sort of billiards hall,
even if it’s just a few old tables on the pavement, where games are played
by kerosene lamps, between locals, for the price of a few San Miguels. The
sport has always been popular – it’s cheap and reasonably accessible – but
has boomed over the past decade because of the success of Efren
Reyes and Francisco Bustamante. Reyes, sometimes called “The
Magician”, is one of the pool world’s great characters; a diminutive fellow
with a toothy grin, he picked up the nickname “Bata” (“The Kid”) while
helping out in his uncle’s pool halls in Manila as a child. He was born in
Pampanga province, to the north of Manila, and can still occasionally be
found on a Friday or Saturday night shooting pool in his hometown bars
around Clark, good-naturedly scalping unsuspecting tourists’ drinks. In
2006, Reyes and Francisco “Django” Bustamante represented their
country as Team Philippines and won the inaugural World Cup of Pool by
defeating Team USA – a victory of major significance for a country with few
global sporting heroes. They repeated the feat in 2009.

Cockfighting

Cockfighting is the Filipino passion few Westerners get to see or

understand, for obvious reasons. It’s a brutal blood sport where fighting
cocks literally peck and jab each other to death as onlookers make bets on
the outcome. The fight begins when the two roosters are presented to each
other in the pit. Both have a razor-sharp curved blade three inches long
strapped to their leg. The fight is over in a burst of feathers in no more
than a few minutes, when one rooster is too bloodied and wounded, or
simply too dead, to peck back at its opponent when provoked. To make the
evening last, most major cockfights feature seven contests. Anyone who
likes animals should definitely stay well away.

If you do attend a cockfight (sabong in Tagalog), you’ll be

experiencing Filipino culture at its rawest – at the very least it might make
you think again about how much “American influence” dominates the
culture. It’s best to start at one of the major cockpits in Manila, or ask
your hotel for the nearest place to see one. Entrance fees are minimal, but
you’ll rarely see women attending – the cockpit is the exclusive preserve
of men, who see it as an egalitarian refuge from the world’s woes, a place
where class differences are temporarily put to one side and everyone wears
flip-flops and vests. In Manila foreign females should be OK at the main
venues, but in the provinces you’ll probably feel more comfortable with a
male companion.
 Based on Jensen (1995), objective of outdoor recreation are follows:

 Appreciation of nature
Outdoor recreation is to develop the learning process of
understanding the ecosystem of nature in which helps to cultivate
environmental awareness. From the affective domain, the learning
outcome is for a person to value and support nature.
 Personal enjoyment and satisfaction
Outdoor recreation provides an enjoyable platform for a
person to achieve his/her satisfaction on the activities.
 Physical fitness
Outdoor recreation offers a broad spectrum of physical
engagement. It ranges from passive activities with little effort such
as bird watching to active activities which involve vigorous
participation such as mountaineering.
 Positive behavior patterns
Outdoor recreation encourages teamwork spirit, respect for
others, understanding of other people’s capabilities and sincerity.
 Stewardship
Outdoor recreation is to inculcate the awareness and
attitude for sustainable use of the natural environment.

ACTIVITY:

“Family Recreational Outdoor Camping”

Instruction:
A. Where to camp: Home backyard camping or in any place you
and your whole family decided to camp.
B. What to prepare: Programs and Games for the whole family to
bond and have fun.
C. When: Choose a date to have the family camping from January
6 to 31 (only overnight camping 6pm to 2pm).
D. How: Make a checklist of what to bring, Make a program of the
flow of your overnight camping including what time you will
have your dinner, breakfast and lunch and what to eat and all
the different games and or recreational activities that you will
be having or performing during the camp (include all the time
starting 6pm to 2pm)
E. Take a pictures of the checklist and program you make, also of
the different activities etc. and also, take a video of it. Reflect on
the Family Bonding you have experience.
F. Deadline of all the necessary compilations (pics, videos &
reflections) will be on February 2, 2021 at 11pm on edmodo
classroom and or PM @ my FB account.