Firebreak! A game of directable fire. With it’s origins in the burning years and needing to train children to handle PPE for smoke, it’s gradually evolved into a more playful mode. Over several days the competitors build quickwood structures and an artificial forest. The teams have “home trees” to protect and defend, and a limited supply of water to extinguish it. The central artificial forest is ignited and let spread before the teams can leave (leaf) their home trees. The sport supports a variable amount of teams. In some rural areas It’s also considered a coming of age ritual in forested areas, which imparts valuable lessons about life and rescue work.
It’s also considered a coming of age ritual in forested areas
- could also see this as instilling the difference between respecting fire and fearing fire
- as well as passing on knowledge of indigenous controlled burns
I like that!
This is a cool idea I wanted to save before it for lost in my Discord history.
The central forest also effectively being a kind of jungle gym for other games and play so that the kids get to see it burn and learn about transient vs lasting things, and prioritization on what you protect.
