i do this all the time when i was elementary. friends gave me a title "Spider Doctor" cuz i get to nurse back defeated spiders to be healthy again and would be able to fight matches
I dont know about healing them, cause here in the the city i live part of iloilo our spiders fights always fight to the death... Which made me sad of my little "darth harrowing" being bitten to death and wrapped in a web coffin
this brings back childhood memories. those are different types of orb weaver spiders. when i was young we used to hunt them at night with just a flashlight. we keep them on individual matchbox and feed them flies and other insects. they don't really bite you if you are gentle with them.
My goodness i remember catching spider around 5 to 7 in the evening and 5 to 7 in the morning then put in a box of matches. Then let fight in the morning. That's 90's kids thing lol cuz i grew up in 90's. i dunno what spider either to get we just exclude the house spider cuz they just run away. Usually we take those who build web in trees or in tall grasses cuz they're good in web and they are not venomous I guess? I've been bitten by it but I dunno still alive. Lol i miss my childhood.
This is a pastime of every Filipinos it is a part of our culture like cock fighting. When i was a kid we go to the bush to find a spider mostly hiding in a leaves of a fruit trees when the sun goes down the spiders started to get out to make their webs in a tree branches.. its the best time to catch a spiders. I feel the excitement when the spider is started to wrapped the other spiders.
Yeah i used to love this when I was in elementary and the kid from 5th grade killed my spider. So that night I grab the house spider and put it on a small shoe box and presented to him like a gift 🎁 scared the shit out of him and beat me up then we become friends afterwards.
The nostalgia man i used to do this when i was 7 - 9 it was really fun but the sad part is when you find your spider dead because of ants.. Sometimes i would burry the best spider of mine who died because my friends told me to. Honestly i was scared to put my spider on a 1v1 battle because its hard to find a good spider. I would bet 20 Pesos and i would just lose.
I'm also play Spider Fight when I was in Grade school and that's my favorite past time long time ago .. I have spiders inside my matchbox and keep it on my pocket .. The memorable part of my childhood here in Tarlac City, Philippines 🇵🇭
I love spiders finding one it’s like finding gold 😅 one time I was feeding my spider and accidentally dropped it and I didn’t know that chicken love it too, so I cooked that chicken for dinner 😡
I can relate to this. When I was young my male classmates were always doing spider fighting, it was fun to watch because boys and girls were into it. In the evening with a flashlight, they were looking for spiders in the places where there are a lot of trees and shrubs.
This was my childhood. Instead of playing dolls and Barbies, I was hunting and breeding spiders. It wasn't until we migrated to Australia that I nearly died thinking redback spiders was harmless until I was bitten.
Soo this is from the philippines, to find this type of spiders they must go to a forest at night. Because at night the spiders go out and make a weeb its more easy to find. It usually sells about $0.10 in small towns but when they sell it in the city would cost around $1 to $2. All varieties of spider are allowed to fight as long as their in the same species.. House spider with the same varieties are not good at fighting like this so forest spider is the best to find - sorry for my bad english.
I will not forget when I was in highschool 3 years ago spider-fighting got infamous in our school. It was not allowed. But our school principal one day jokingly announced to have a spider-fighting tournament in our campus. She said it to encourage the students to go to school (because absenteeism was worse at the time). Many students brought spiders in the very next day and were so f ecstatic when they challenged each other and proved themselves who have the best spider. The news grew quicker inside and outside the campus and we relayed the message. Others (especially the absentees) also can't believe quickly if it was really true. It was just so funny. But later days spiders got banned in our school. But still many other students continued making secret matches hahah.
I remember this! Once when I was still at elementary and I was like 6 or 7 we use to catch spiders but we need a case for them to stay in and we sometimes we try to catch flies, we use walis to catch them and feed them to our spiders. Btw I was the only girl in our boy group. I was part of the group. Feeding the spiders are really not that hard. We just pick up a spider we randomly found and just let them fight not knowing their breeds or gender. We pay the winner atleast 20 pesos. But there's a catch, if one of our spiders dies, the other owner of that spider will need to pay us 30 pesos or give us one of their spider to replace the dead one. If this is different from other spider fighting here in the Philippines then okay... We have our own rules. We also trades spiders, if you wanna trade a spider but you don't have any to trade then you will need to give them 20 pesos. Para sa baon nila o I save nila sa kanilang garapon. Back when I was still in the group I earned 13,000 pesos o mas higit pa.
I used to look for spiders during nighttime in the sugarcane or corn plantation. That is the time they go out. During morning they hide on dead leaves.
Pastime enjoyment for the kids.... Even I when I was just a kid I used to play with it. We also used matched boxes as their home. This spiders, they don't bite, the kids knows whose who is the fighter.
@@zyn0064 Mate, they do bite. As someone who's been bitten multiple times, i can assure you they do. Its mostly times where i take their meal to keep them starving.
Playing with spiders is very common to us Filipino during our childhood, we even go to the mountains to search for spiders that we use for spider fightings.
This has brought back memories. I can vividly remember, at sunset, my friends and I would raid the cornfields to find spiders. We were so engrossed at finding them that we forget the time. And when I get home, my mom would be waiting by the door with walis ting ting (broomstick) and I then get a good spanking for staying out late. But no regret coz at least I got a matchbox full of big spiders for the following days tournament. T'was wonderful back then.. 😄
The spiders that they used aren't the kind of spiders you see lurking inside your house. House spiders doesnt fight and they just run away in battle. These are forest spiders. When I was young I hunt these spiders at night during summer in the forest with flashlights. You tend to do it at night since you can see them clearly in their spider web. These spiders are starved so that they will get aggressive in order for them to fight. When you just caught a spider the spider won't fight and just ran away trying to escape.
this is from the Philippines, the peso bills are Philippines'. i used to have spiders also, back when i am still at the province, for your spider to become brave, you must regulate the feeding, you may even starve them a bit, for them to crave for food, even spiders.
Some thoughts. The spiders most commonly used in these fights are your typical house-dwelling or tree-dwelling orb weavers, which are not known to be venomous or otherwise dangerous -- unless you have an allergy or you get an insane amount dropping into your dinner plate and you still ate it. There is an existing trade in these animals, and people in the countryside go out at night into the fields and forests to hunt spiders for fighting or selling. Many are sold online. The matches we had in the 90s went on until a spider died. If it became clear that a spider lost and the other one started to net them, they were not rescued by the owner. Or if a spider kept running away from the match, we killed them ourselves. We didn't release them back into the wild because we didn't want to be out hunting and catching the same wimpy spider all over again. It's becoming more popular now for fights not to go on to the death, as you have seen in that video. Or if a spider refuses to fight or loses a leg in a match, they are considered to have lost, the fight is over and the spider is released back into the wild. If you're going to get into this hobby, this is the more humane thing to do. There are plenty of reasons why a spider might not be in the best shape to fight another one. By the way, spider hunts, trades, matches, and especially betting matches are ILLEGAL in the Philippines under at least one existing law: RA 9147, Conservation of Wildlife Resources and Habitats. For some reason the authorities look the other way, but spiders are still considered wildlife just like the rare bird or pangolin in the forest. Bug experts express concern that some species of spider are becoming vulnerable even before we can fully study their impact upon the ecosystem. Their call is for the trade to stop, or at the very least for fights not to go on to the death and for spiders to be released eventually after a certain number of fights.
Note: These spiders (breed) are male and female and all territorial. They don't have to mate to lay eggs and become slings (baby spiders). Unlike tarantulas most of the species requires to mate.
We used to catch spiders when we were kids.. Spiders in the Philippines are not that venomous compared to others in foreign countries. They bite if you mishandled them or felt threatened. A trick in handling spiders is just blow on them and they would just stop and crouch. Spiders will fight each other if they meet in one another in the same string or path without any area to maneuver themselves. Spiders are being taken care of just like a prize fighter, giving them a good place to stay as well as food. The language is Visayan and yes, its in the Philippines.
Spiders are solitary and territorial. So, when two spiders cross paths they fight to the death or until one spider deliberately falls tethered to its silk or rappels to safety. There are species of spiders that show better skill and intensity in fighting compared to the regular house spiders, which are used as "sparring partners" or food.
the type of spiders that are used for fighting are of 3 species and not all are qualified due to size, movement, length of legs and shape of abdomen. These 3 types are of the same sizes in legs, abdomen and movement, not all are qualified on the fight arena because their movement are not good and fast on the stick. Other types are good only on flat surfaces, some are slow moving and some with just a slight vibration the surface are afraid to fight.
Hi, guys. When I was still before my teenage years I go out and collect spiders. I keep them on separate match boxes. The game is to the death when one spider wraps the opposing spider with his web. Traditionally, the fight ring would be a palm reed. Brought me back to childhood. cockfighting or "sa-bong" in tagalog is still popular here in the Philippines. We even have a TV channel for it. Fun fact. Texan cocks are prized birds for sa-bong-eh-ros. They are expensive breeds.
Here in the philippines we like spiders even children are not afraid of spiders. The spiders they use in the Spiders battle they get that every night where there are a lot of leaves and you really need to open your eye's so you can see a good and biger spider. But for the children, they just take it on their roof. The spider doesn't bite so it's safe, if you know how to hold. 🇵🇭
I'm 53 now,in our time this is one of very famous game spider fighting.We search bushes, climbing trees looking for tough spider,one of my bet is the red one.
Spider is one of the seasonal filipino street games...its around october if i remember correctly,comes before kite season(november)... You have to stay out a bit late to hunt for spiders... Spiders only expose them selves after sun down..Cant afford a torch\flash light?... No problem... Just get an empty tin can,put a wire handle.. put a candle inside.... Cheap DIY torch...i always got in trouble with my mom for staying out late...... Sad for the filipino chiildren today, playing out side is being forgotten..
It's part of youthful games of the Filipinos. Kids going to the backyard with much tree collecting spider and put to the matchbox and fighting it with other kids. Simple but feel happiness. It's Part of our culture to be happy in a simple way.
Did this a few years back. Won about ₱2,000 and as a kid that amount was huge. The trick is to stop feeding your spider for about a day or two so that its gonna be hungry and be more aggressive.
Orb weaving spiders are used for spider fighting (around 2-3 cm. in size). If you handle one incorrectly while keeping it inside your fist, they could bite. Most of these spiders, including the small jumping spiders, are harmless, so you shouldn't freak out on them. Although some say the carpenter spiders are also harmless, they freak me out because they're large (10+ cm.) and they run fast.
Love u guys, u guys took big interest of my cultures, and thats usually done in the philippines back then, and im not sure if its done to other places too, but we used to do that back then, cuz u know how the philippines is in the 3rd world country, and many cant afford leisures, this is 1 of the thing kids do to enjoy lives, like playing tag or hide and seek and many things
It will definitely bite if you don't hold'em properly, some of it are venomous & you can recognize by it's color, but it's not really fatal - some of it are painful & can cause swell. I remember back home, it's not only about fighting..The experience of hunting them & catching them are very fun & excited. The most effective time to catch spiders are during night time , maybe because they are active hunting food..so their webs reflect with the torch/flashlights: I found them mostly in trees like, mango, plum, also banana & corn leaves &, the most challenging is the spiders who lived in rocks (you might don't catch spiders but rather snakes lol). It's really fun, one of the best experience. I miss my old friend back home. We'll definitely so this soon when I come back. Thanks guys for this \m/
Yes… they keep their spiders they feed them with milk & other nutrients. They usually get it from the corn fields. This is probably in the VISAYAS & MINDANAO area coz they speak CEBUANO. Spider fighting is fun!!!!
this is our pastime in gradeschool.. we search for them in bushes and place them in matchbox. we love the spiders that live in chilli plants, we believed that they are braver and stronger..
Spiders in the Philippibes attack their own spicies for food, and they fight to the death in their natural habitat and they breed by hundreds, house or tree spiders have the same nature for survival and hunger for food (insects or any small critter will be a food for them. so of those spiders meet on the same branch or sticks they will definitly attack each other without second thought, they just fight as their instinct suggest and start to wrap their enemy with their web until the opponent is dead or will not able to escape.
I didn't try Spider derby but I tried to catch some spiders for derby. Good derby spiders can be seen during fullmoon in the heart of forest zone. Spider derby is fun, however, there were some gimmick to make spiders go powerful. They make their spiders drink dextrose or coconut juice. Mainly those things are not illegal and derby spiders can bite you if you mishandled them.
because of the Philippines is a tropical country we have a lot of spider breed we only do catch those small breeds for that kind of pass time we also have large breed but most of them are venomous spiders like we also got local breeds of tarantula and black widow here
They should have shown how kids hunts them. I used to go to the bush at dusk because that's the time Spiders starts webbing. I even take my spiders in school and have a fight during recess time. But you have to feed them some insects too. It's part of our childhood but only in the rural areas in the Philippines.😇
those are mountain tree spiders....the secret of winning spider fight is to starve it before the fight day...or if it has eggs, burn the eggs to make it more angry....
Spiders that aren't venomous to humans are actually helpful because they eat the insects that would have bitten you. They're just part of the food web.
We can have fun on everything around. We are even having fun with flooding and typhoon. And we can even have some fun with our problems. It is more fun in Philippines.
No need to provoke spiders to fight they pretty territorial, so if they met they automatically fight except the house type spider or the smaller one they run away. You can find spider in bushes every night.
sometimes, i feel like the only filipino/filipina with arachnophobia (i hope i spelt that right) because literally everyone here I see isn't afraid to touch a spider, i mean, i did use to do this and bring spiders at school but the last time i did that was when a spider almost went in my eye until my mom slapped it off
Matchups are measured through the length of legs ,it doesn't matter if its male or female they are territorial thats why they fight the only spider they dont use is the house spider they dont fight
There are many breed of them. But they are same family with the orb spider. What they do is that they will not feed the spider for days before the fight to make them aggressive
It's what kids and guys are doing at some parts of the year (spider season) but I don't like my nephews roaming around bushes until late at night, my goodness it's scary.
Yep Kaka or Spiderfighting is an old Filipino past times...but recently the Dept of Environmental & natural resources DENR and DeptofAgriculture DA forbids this kind of activity since gathering of spiders fron their habitat disrupts the balance of ecosystem. Regarding the money betting it ranges from 20pesos to thousands Pesos..
It's a common thing here in the Philippines, young ones even girls catches and plays with spiders, and used matchsticks box as their home and to do "ihip2" 😂to make them move inside.
This is our equivalent to catching Pokemon back in the early 2000's. Kids back then would bring boxes full of spiders to school and organize matches during lunchbreak.
Hey guys I just watched your video. I’m from Philippines originally and used to hunt and fight spiders. There are specific spiders we use that live in different fruit and vegetable plants. Watermelon spiders and bitter Mellon spiders are the best. None bite. The way we make them fight is to starve them for a few days. Just feed them your spit every day. Philippines also fight horses,
These are not the same spiders you find in your balconies. "Balcony spiders" are food. The "fighter spiders" are not all the same species. There are rare ones and can cost hundreds of dollars each.
I remember catching spiders and selling them to my quite rich(not really, they're like a middle family) but lazy friends lol. I miss those days where I can earn money and have fun at the same time.....
they belong to a family, orb-weaver spiders but different species. I don't know how do they select which ones are the best ones but different species has its own characteristics definitely
Those are the spider who web their house at night and distroyed it in the morning then hide somewhere. Yes they fight to the death if they grab it's other.
I had this when i was a kid. This was very popular during the 1990s when computers werent yet the thing. We considered these fighting spiders as our pet. We fed them with small insects. Not all spiders can be put into a fight. Like house spiders. They are not as aggresive as spiders from the trees. They easily lose fights
In the Philippines, dog-fighting is already completely illegal; Cock-fighting is legal and regulated; Spider-fighting is just a hobby/past-time mostly for kids. It is the gambling/betting that makes it illegal.
ha ha ha ha...dammmm my childhood..... I used to have a collection of those fighting spiders..... Gagambang samon, pitik, hari,tala, kuryente, black widow...... Friday night I won't be feeding them as Saturday morning is fight day..... lolz.....
Its common in the philippines spider fighting...when i was a kid thats may favorite past time...evry spider has a unique charactiristic and color..you know who your spider and your opponents spider by its color and size..
the spider bites, but most Pilipino can handle it. when I was little, we catch spiders either at night or early in the morning, some are for sale and the others are for fighting.
My brothers was doing it... fighting Spider in a stick of coconut husk. I even tried it but afraid that the insect bite me haha. The box of a match they have divisions as the spider house. It was only a game no money involved during our time.
Im From the Phillipinnes we used to fight with spiders.Im gonna tell you 3 Breeds of Spiders | \/ 1.Tigbalayon- lives in houses and canals 2. 1 2 3- Walks 3 steps 3. Maisan- Strong And will bite you Found in Rice Fields.
lol.. we used to play with spiders when I was 6 until 12 with my friends. i was beaten several times.it is like a sting but it goes away in few hours. It’s wasn’t poisonous. i spoke the dialect. It is Visayan or Cebuano spoken mosly in central and southern part of the philippines. It is now illegal to catch these spiders due to ecological issues and gambling also is illegal.
i was not very familiar with spider fighting even if im filipino but i was fascinated because my dad and my cousin both hunted small spiders in someones garden and lept them in a tiny box and let them fight and my cousin... he decided to keep a box of five spiders and even kept a frog he found in the kitchen while it rained and i am terrified
Most of the time you'll see kids do this in summer between March to May ( no class). The serious one would search for their spiders by night and would make little cages (from matchsticks boxes). But rarely see this in the city. Probably in the provincial area (suburb). That's my childhood..😅
they do keep those spiders and feed them with small insects, sometimes they put leaves on their small made-up cages so the spider thinks it's still leaving on a plant... those spiders are kept until they die on a fight or releases them if they can't fight anymore
For your questions Sirs, Yes, it's a fight to death, but still depends, sometimes spider gives up (as shown in the vid). Inhumane? But they're not human!.. Seriously though they're frowned upon and even maybe illegal, especially catching and selling that many spiders (esp certain species that may be rare).. Now it's almost become a tradition, most Filipino boys (and girls) at one point participated in such 'sport'. Many children did and still do the spider fighting but just for the fun of it, and the adventure of finding spiders on the wild (as home spiders won't do). But it's normally done without the betting, just children having fun.. I'm even surprised to find out adults also do that, and what more, with money involved!..
one day we were looking for a (mais-maisan) spiders found in corn fields. they are sought after because they are big and strong. but instead of spider, we found a snake and almost bit one of my friends lol. after that we only go for (pulahan) common red spiders.
Way back my childhood days, every morning 4-5am we have to go on fields etc just to find spiders. It’s very popular in Philippines especially in provinces.
Those spiders dont have the usaul beatiful web that you see everywhere,what i know when i was a kid we look for one long web and at the end theres a folded leaf thats where they stay.
Puntok one, gloves, sungay3 are my favorite fighting spider Some spiders bite We still play this in mindanao In some banana trees,mango trees and even people sell spider like 5-20pesos
Ahhh this was the original gacha back in the days, when you thought the gagamba is a SSR type but you got a gagambang bahay which is the common rarity. And it's also one of the reason why i became an arachnophobic person, shits bitten me and made me feverish.
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Even a girl like me experienced catching spiders lol, together with my boy-friends, we participated in the fights or sell the spiders we caught 😅😅
Same
Me too back then i used to bring some to school and then fight and sell them but the teachers would confiscate them
Going out in the middle of the night to catch spider😂...
Good old days it was good until 2020 came like hell
Same. My favorite one was the red colored spider she's pretty aggressive but good record in fighting. 😁
i do this all the time when i was elementary. friends gave me a title "Spider Doctor" cuz i get to nurse back defeated spiders to be healthy again and would be able to fight matches
Treating them with pounded Moringa leaves?!?!? Love childhood 😁
I dont know about healing them, cause here in the the city i live part of iloilo our spiders fights always fight to the death... Which made me sad of my little "darth harrowing" being bitten to death and wrapped in a web coffin
pagtalonan na binabalik ko na lang sa wild kasi parang meron na silang phobia kahit maka recover pa.
Ahhh memories.....i always lose andd my opponent always take my defeated spider, buuut i occasionally win...well only once XD
NA miss ko mag laban Laban ng gagamba pero samin kasi kapag lalaban do or die kasi so wala talaga mamatay talaga isa dahil gagawin pagkain yung patay
this brings back childhood memories. those are different types of orb weaver spiders. when i was young we used to hunt them at night with just a flashlight. we keep them on individual matchbox and feed them flies and other insects. they don't really bite you if you are gentle with them.
My goodness i remember catching spider around 5 to 7 in the evening and 5 to 7 in the morning then put in a box of matches. Then let fight in the morning. That's 90's kids thing lol cuz i grew up in 90's. i dunno what spider either to get we just exclude the house spider cuz they just run away. Usually we take those who build web in trees or in tall grasses cuz they're good in web and they are not venomous I guess? I've been bitten by it but I dunno still alive. Lol i miss my childhood.
This is a pastime of every Filipinos it is a part of our culture like cock fighting. When i was a kid we go to the bush to find a spider mostly hiding in a leaves of a fruit trees when the sun goes down the spiders started to get out to make their webs in a tree branches.. its the best time to catch a spiders. I feel the excitement when the spider is started to wrapped the other spiders.
Same im a girl but i like to play boys games
Lol same, im also a girl, but playing with the boys is fun, pogs is my favorite
im a boy but i dont like spider fighting cuz i suck at finding one and it makes me mad, if i find one its either "gagambang bahay" or "tulisan"
Yeah i used to love this when I was in elementary and the kid from 5th grade killed my spider. So that night I grab the house spider and put it on a small shoe box and presented to him like a gift 🎁 scared the shit out of him and beat me up then we become friends afterwards.
@@xooonepieceoox1917 bruhhh duwag yung lalaking binigyan mo ng gagamba lmao
The nostalgia man i used to do this when i was 7 - 9 it was really fun but the sad part is when you find your spider dead because of ants.. Sometimes i would burry the best spider of mine who died because my friends told me to.
Honestly i was scared to put my spider on a 1v1 battle because its hard to find a good spider.
I would bet 20 Pesos and i would just lose.
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I'm also play Spider Fight when I was in Grade school and that's my favorite past time long time ago .. I have spiders inside my matchbox and keep it on my pocket .. The memorable part of my childhood here in Tarlac City, Philippines 🇵🇭
I love spiders finding one it’s like finding gold 😅 one time I was feeding my spider and accidentally dropped it and I didn’t know that chicken love it too, so I cooked that chicken for dinner 😡
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I can relate to this. When I was young my male classmates were always doing spider fighting, it was fun to watch because boys and girls were into it. In the evening with a flashlight, they were looking for spiders in the places where there are a lot of trees and shrubs.
This was my childhood. Instead of playing dolls and Barbies, I was hunting and breeding spiders. It wasn't until we migrated to Australia that I nearly died thinking redback spiders was harmless until I was bitten.
ah. my childhood, minus the betting.
Soo this is from the philippines, to find this type of spiders they must go to a forest at night. Because at night the spiders go out and make a weeb its more easy to find. It usually sells about $0.10 in small towns but when they sell it in the city would cost around $1 to $2.
All varieties of spider are allowed to fight as long as their in the same species.. House spider with the same varieties are not good at fighting like this so forest spider is the best to find
- sorry for my bad english.
I will not forget when I was in highschool 3 years ago spider-fighting got infamous in our school. It was not allowed. But our school principal one day jokingly announced to have a spider-fighting tournament in our campus. She said it to encourage the students to go to school (because absenteeism was worse at the time). Many students brought spiders in the very next day and were so f ecstatic when they challenged each other and proved themselves who have the best spider. The news grew quicker inside and outside the campus and we relayed the message. Others (especially the absentees) also can't believe quickly if it was really true. It was just so funny. But later days spiders got banned in our school. But still many other students continued making secret matches hahah.
I remember this! Once when I was still at elementary and I was like 6 or 7 we use to catch spiders but we need a case for them to stay in and we sometimes we try to catch flies, we use walis to catch them and feed them to our spiders. Btw I was the only girl in our boy group. I was part of the group. Feeding the spiders are really not that hard. We just pick up a spider we randomly found and just let them fight not knowing their breeds or gender. We pay the winner atleast 20 pesos. But there's a catch, if one of our spiders dies, the other owner of that spider will need to pay us 30 pesos or give us one of their spider to replace the dead one. If this is different from other spider fighting here in the Philippines then okay... We have our own rules. We also trades spiders, if you wanna trade a spider but you don't have any to trade then you will need to give them 20 pesos. Para sa baon nila o I save nila sa kanilang garapon. Back when I was still in the group I earned 13,000 pesos o mas higit pa.
It reminded me of our younger years in the Phil. Thanks! You two are great .
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This is Philippines..they speak cebuano or visaya dialect
I used to look for spiders during nighttime in the sugarcane or corn plantation. That is the time they go out. During morning they hide on dead leaves.
Pastime enjoyment for the kids.... Even I when I was just a kid I used to play with it.
We also used matched boxes as their home.
This spiders, they don't bite, the kids knows whose who is the fighter.
They dont bite.
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@@Uhgothopt yep they don't and I have seen a spider as big as coin or adult thumb finger and my favourite is color red spider
@@zyn0064 Mate, they do bite. As someone who's been bitten multiple times, i can assure you they do. Its mostly times where i take their meal to keep them starving.
@@Uhgothopt wow but never happened to me
Playing with spiders is very common to us Filipino during our childhood, we even go to the mountains to search for spiders that we use for spider fightings.
This has brought back memories. I can vividly remember, at sunset, my friends and I would raid the cornfields to find spiders. We were so engrossed at finding them that we forget the time. And when I get home, my mom would be waiting by the door with walis ting ting (broomstick) and I then get a good spanking for staying out late. But no regret coz at least I got a matchbox full of big spiders for the following days tournament. T'was wonderful back then.. 😄
The spiders that they used aren't the kind of spiders you see lurking inside your house. House spiders doesnt fight and they just run away in battle.
These are forest spiders. When I was young I hunt these spiders at night during summer in the forest with flashlights. You tend to do it at night since you can see them clearly in their spider web. These spiders are starved so that they will get aggressive in order for them to fight. When you just caught a spider the spider won't fight and just ran away trying to escape.
I love the way how you guys identified the Philippines by them wearing basketball jersey🤣😅
this is from the Philippines, the peso bills are Philippines'. i used to have spiders also, back when i am still at the province, for your spider to become brave, you must regulate the feeding, you may even starve them a bit, for them to crave for food, even spiders.
Some thoughts.
The spiders most commonly used in these fights are your typical house-dwelling or tree-dwelling orb weavers, which are not known to be venomous or otherwise dangerous -- unless you have an allergy or you get an insane amount dropping into your dinner plate and you still ate it.
There is an existing trade in these animals, and people in the countryside go out at night into the fields and forests to hunt spiders for fighting or selling. Many are sold online.
The matches we had in the 90s went on until a spider died. If it became clear that a spider lost and the other one started to net them, they were not rescued by the owner. Or if a spider kept running away from the match, we killed them ourselves. We didn't release them back into the wild because we didn't want to be out hunting and catching the same wimpy spider all over again.
It's becoming more popular now for fights not to go on to the death, as you have seen in that video. Or if a spider refuses to fight or loses a leg in a match, they are considered to have lost, the fight is over and the spider is released back into the wild. If you're going to get into this hobby, this is the more humane thing to do. There are plenty of reasons why a spider might not be in the best shape to fight another one.
By the way, spider hunts, trades, matches, and especially betting matches are ILLEGAL in the Philippines under at least one existing law: RA 9147, Conservation of Wildlife Resources and Habitats. For some reason the authorities look the other way, but spiders are still considered wildlife just like the rare bird or pangolin in the forest. Bug experts express concern that some species of spider are becoming vulnerable even before we can fully study their impact upon the ecosystem. Their call is for the trade to stop, or at the very least for fights not to go on to the death and for spiders to be released eventually after a certain number of fights.
Note: These spiders (breed) are male and female and all territorial. They don't have to mate to lay eggs and become slings (baby spiders). Unlike tarantulas most of the species requires to mate.
We used to catch spiders when we were kids.. Spiders in the Philippines are not that venomous compared to others in foreign countries. They bite if you mishandled them or felt threatened. A trick in handling spiders is just blow on them and they would just stop and crouch. Spiders will fight each other if they meet in one another in the same string or path without any area to maneuver themselves. Spiders are being taken care of just like a prize fighter, giving them a good place to stay as well as food. The language is Visayan and yes, its in the Philippines.
Spiders are solitary and territorial. So, when two spiders cross paths they fight to the death or until one spider deliberately falls tethered to its silk or rappels to safety. There are species of spiders that show better skill and intensity in fighting compared to the regular house spiders, which are used as "sparring partners" or food.
the type of spiders that are used for fighting are of 3 species and not all are qualified due to size, movement, length of legs and shape of abdomen. These 3 types are of the same sizes in legs, abdomen and movement, not all are qualified on the fight arena because their movement are not good and fast on the stick. Other types are good only on flat surfaces, some are slow moving and some with just a slight vibration the surface are afraid to fight.
Hi, guys. When I was still before my teenage years I go out and collect spiders. I keep them on separate match boxes. The game is to the death when one spider wraps the opposing spider with his web. Traditionally, the fight ring would be a palm reed. Brought me back to childhood.
cockfighting or "sa-bong" in tagalog is still popular here in the Philippines. We even have a TV channel for it. Fun fact. Texan cocks are prized birds for sa-bong-eh-ros. They are expensive breeds.
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Here in the philippines we like spiders even children are not afraid of spiders. The spiders they use in the Spiders battle they get that every night where there are a lot of leaves and you really need to open your eye's so you can see a good and biger spider. But for the children, they just take it on their roof. The spider doesn't bite so it's safe, if you know how to hold. 🇵🇭
I'm 53 now,in our time this is one of very famous game spider fighting.We search bushes, climbing trees looking for tough spider,one of my bet is the red one.
Spider is one of the seasonal filipino street games...its around october if i remember correctly,comes before kite season(november)... You have to stay out a bit late to hunt for spiders... Spiders only expose them selves after sun down..Cant afford a torch\flash light?... No problem... Just get an empty tin can,put a wire handle.. put a candle inside.... Cheap DIY torch...i always got in trouble with my mom for staying out late...... Sad for the filipino chiildren today, playing out side is being forgotten..
It's part of youthful games of the Filipinos. Kids going to the backyard with much tree collecting spider and put to the matchbox and fighting it with other kids. Simple but feel happiness. It's Part of our culture to be happy in a simple way.
Did this a few years back. Won about ₱2,000 and as a kid that amount was huge. The trick is to stop feeding your spider for about a day or two so that its gonna be hungry and be more aggressive.
Orb weaving spiders are used for spider fighting (around 2-3 cm. in size). If you handle one incorrectly while keeping it inside your fist, they could bite. Most of these spiders, including the small jumping spiders, are harmless, so you shouldn't freak out on them. Although some say the carpenter spiders are also harmless, they freak me out because they're large (10+ cm.) and they run fast.
Love u guys, u guys took big interest of my cultures, and thats usually done in the philippines back then, and im not sure if its done to other places too, but we used to do that back then, cuz u know how the philippines is in the 3rd world country, and many cant afford leisures, this is 1 of the thing kids do to enjoy lives, like playing tag or hide and seek and many things
It will definitely bite if you don't hold'em properly, some of it are venomous & you can recognize by it's color, but it's not really fatal - some of it are painful & can cause swell.
I remember back home, it's not only about fighting..The experience of hunting them & catching them are very fun & excited.
The most effective time to catch spiders are during night time , maybe because they are active hunting food..so their webs reflect with the torch/flashlights:
I found them mostly in trees like, mango, plum, also banana & corn leaves &, the most challenging is the spiders who lived in rocks (you might don't catch spiders but rather snakes lol).
It's really fun, one of the best experience. I miss my old friend back home. We'll definitely so this soon when I come back. Thanks guys for this \m/
Yes… they keep their spiders they feed them with milk & other nutrients. They usually get it from the corn fields. This is probably in the VISAYAS & MINDANAO area coz they speak CEBUANO. Spider fighting is fun!!!!
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Sometimes you put colored nail polish on the spider to differentiate them.
It's actually a small house spider. You can see them around the house or in the backyard.
this is our pastime in gradeschool.. we search for them in bushes and place them in matchbox. we love the spiders that live in chilli plants, we believed that they are braver and stronger..
Spiders in the Philippibes attack their own spicies for food, and they fight to the death in their natural habitat and they breed by hundreds, house or tree spiders have the same nature for survival and hunger for food (insects or any small critter will be a food for them. so of those spiders meet on the same branch or sticks they will definitly attack each other without second thought, they just fight as their instinct suggest and start to wrap their enemy with their web until the opponent is dead or will not able to escape.
I didn't try Spider derby but I tried to catch some spiders for derby. Good derby spiders can be seen during fullmoon in the heart of forest zone. Spider derby is fun, however, there were some gimmick to make spiders go powerful. They make their spiders drink dextrose or coconut juice. Mainly those things are not illegal and derby spiders can bite you if you mishandled them.
because of the Philippines is a tropical country we have a lot of spider breed we only do catch those small breeds for that kind of pass time we also have large breed but most of them are venomous spiders like we also got local breeds of tarantula and black widow here
They should have shown how kids hunts them. I used to go to the bush at dusk because that's the time Spiders starts webbing. I even take my spiders in school and have a fight during recess time. But you have to feed them some insects too. It's part of our childhood but only in the rural areas in the Philippines.😇
those are mountain tree spiders....the secret of winning spider fight is to starve it before the fight day...or if it has eggs, burn the eggs to make it more angry....
Spiders that aren't venomous to humans are actually helpful because they eat the insects that would have bitten you. They're just part of the food web.
We can have fun on everything around. We are even having fun with flooding and typhoon. And we can even have some fun with our problems. It is more fun in Philippines.
No need to provoke spiders to fight they pretty territorial, so if they met they automatically fight except the house type spider or the smaller one they run away. You can find spider in bushes every night.
sometimes, i feel like the only filipino/filipina with arachnophobia (i hope i spelt that right) because literally everyone here I see isn't afraid to touch a spider, i mean, i did use to do this and bring spiders at school but the last time i did that was when a spider almost went in my eye until my mom slapped it off
Look at the local joyful Filipino folks living simple life,, they treat foreigners as like as local also.
Matchups are measured through the length of legs ,it doesn't matter if its male or female they are territorial thats why they fight the only spider they dont use is the house spider they dont fight
The Korean are enjoying with pinoys..that's a testament were friendly kind people..
That kind of spider is common also here in Bush's of NY they are noctural orb weaver spiders...
I don't understand the local language being spoken (we have 170+ languages in the islands) but the paper money used are Philippine Pesos.
There are many breed of them. But they are same family with the orb spider. What they do is that they will not feed the spider for days before the fight to make them aggressive
It's what kids and guys are doing at some parts of the year (spider season) but I don't like my nephews roaming around bushes until late at night, my goodness it's scary.
Yep Kaka or Spiderfighting is an old Filipino past times...but recently the Dept of Environmental & natural resources DENR and DeptofAgriculture DA forbids this kind of activity since gathering of spiders fron their habitat disrupts the balance of ecosystem. Regarding the money betting it ranges from 20pesos to thousands Pesos..
It's a common thing here in the Philippines, young ones even girls catches and plays with spiders, and used matchsticks box as their home and to do "ihip2" 😂to make them move inside.
They use different types of orbweavers also called garden spiders and yeah they dont have enough venom to kill a human
majority of all the spiders caught are common orb-weavers that are found everywhere.
This is our equivalent to catching Pokemon back in the early 2000's. Kids back then would bring boxes full of spiders to school and organize matches during lunchbreak.
Hey guys I just watched your video. I’m from Philippines originally and used to hunt and fight spiders. There are specific spiders we use that live in different fruit and vegetable plants. Watermelon spiders and bitter Mellon spiders are the best. None bite. The way we make them fight is to starve them for a few days. Just feed them your spit every day. Philippines also fight horses,
These are not the same spiders you find in your balconies. "Balcony spiders" are food. The "fighter spiders" are not all the same species. There are rare ones and can cost hundreds of dollars each.
I remember catching spiders and selling them to my quite rich(not really, they're like a middle family) but lazy friends lol. I miss those days where I can earn money and have fun at the same time.....
they belong to a family, orb-weaver spiders but different species. I don't know how do they select which ones are the best ones but different species has its own characteristics definitely
Those are the spider who web their house at night and distroyed it in the morning then hide somewhere. Yes they fight to the death if they grab it's other.
Those spider are common they got mostly on the farmland and bush all those people are living in the province and transported to cities to sell it
I had this when i was a kid. This was very popular during the 1990s when computers werent yet the thing. We considered these fighting spiders as our pet. We fed them with small insects. Not all spiders can be put into a fight. Like house spiders. They are not as aggresive as spiders from the trees. They easily lose fights
In the Philippines, dog-fighting is already completely illegal; Cock-fighting is legal and regulated; Spider-fighting is just a hobby/past-time mostly for kids. It is the gambling/betting that makes it illegal.
Part of my childhood games...most of the spiders in the ph are harmless to humans..so we can catch them with our barehands
ha ha ha ha...dammmm my childhood..... I used to have a collection of those fighting spiders..... Gagambang samon, pitik, hari,tala, kuryente, black widow...... Friday night I won't be feeding them as Saturday morning is fight day..... lolz.....
Those are not baby spiders. They are mature just small. Most of the spider species here (Orb weaving spiders) are small.
Its common in the philippines spider fighting...when i was a kid thats may favorite past time...evry spider has a unique charactiristic and color..you know who your spider and your opponents spider by its color and size..
Basically the spiders fight to the death and whoever loses the spider would die and some spiders a deadly basically from the philippines to 🇵🇭
the spider bites, but most Pilipino can handle it. when I was little, we catch spiders either at night or early in the morning, some are for sale and the others are for fighting.
That's more fun in Philippines 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭👍👍👍
in my time i used the star spiders they are like crabs that has a hard shell and pointy edges which is hard to beat.
My brothers was doing it... fighting Spider in a stick of coconut husk. I even tried it but afraid that the insect bite me haha. The box of a match they have divisions as the spider house. It was only a game no money involved during our time.
Im From the Phillipinnes we used to fight with spiders.Im gonna tell you 3
Breeds of Spiders
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1.Tigbalayon- lives in houses and canals
2. 1 2 3- Walks 3 steps
3. Maisan- Strong And will bite you
Found in Rice Fields.
lol.. we used to play with spiders when I was 6 until 12 with my friends. i was beaten several times.it is like a sting but it goes away in few hours. It’s wasn’t poisonous. i spoke the dialect. It is Visayan or Cebuano spoken mosly in central and southern part of the philippines. It is now illegal to catch these spiders due to ecological issues and gambling also is illegal.
the gov't is really killjoy, don't you think?
i was not very familiar with spider fighting even if im filipino but i was fascinated because my dad and my cousin both hunted small spiders in someones garden and lept them in a tiny box and let them fight
and my cousin... he decided to keep a box of five spiders and even kept a frog he found in the kitchen while it rained and i am terrified
Yep' when I was a kid back in PI I used to do this its a past time especially around summer when kids are out of school.
I have many experiences when finding spider at night and even in the daylight,,, sometime it was terrifying to see
Most of the time you'll see kids do this in summer between March to May ( no class). The serious one would search for their spiders by night and would make little cages (from matchsticks boxes). But rarely see this in the city. Probably in the provincial area (suburb). That's my childhood..😅
they do keep those spiders and feed them with small insects, sometimes they put leaves on their small made-up cages so the spider thinks it's still leaving on a plant... those spiders are kept until they die on a fight or releases them if they can't fight anymore
For your questions Sirs, Yes, it's a fight to death, but still depends, sometimes spider gives up (as shown in the vid). Inhumane? But they're not human!.. Seriously though they're frowned upon and even maybe illegal, especially catching and selling that many spiders (esp certain species that may be rare).. Now it's almost become a tradition, most Filipino boys (and girls) at one point participated in such 'sport'. Many children did and still do the spider fighting but just for the fun of it, and the adventure of finding spiders on the wild (as home spiders won't do). But it's normally done without the betting, just children having fun.. I'm even surprised to find out adults also do that, and what more, with money involved!..
Pretty sure it is from a Visayan-speaking province in the Philippine while content maker's a Korean.
Filipinos are good at entertaining themselves using stuff from nature.
one day we were looking for a (mais-maisan) spiders found in corn fields. they are sought after because they are big and strong. but instead of spider, we found a snake and almost bit one of my friends lol. after that we only go for (pulahan) common red spiders.
Way back my childhood days, every morning 4-5am we have to go on fields etc just to find spiders. It’s very popular in Philippines especially in provinces.
one of the reasons me and my friends collect matchboxes, and wait for the matchbox beside the stove or the altar to run out XD
I remember having those spiders and I didn't let it fight. I had them as pets instead. They were so cute.
Those spiders dont have the usaul beatiful web that you see everywhere,what i know when i was a kid we look for one long web and at the end theres a folded leaf thats where they stay.
Go Spider-Man lol. Poor spiders, they're tired from fighting lol
Puntok one, gloves, sungay3 are my favorite fighting spider
Some spiders bite
We still play this in mindanao
In some banana trees,mango trees and even people sell spider like 5-20pesos
Ahhh this was the original gacha back in the days, when you thought the gagamba is a SSR type but you got a gagambang bahay which is the common rarity. And it's also one of the reason why i became an arachnophobic person, shits bitten me and made me feverish.