No Component Game – Slap Game

Catalog

1. Personal Aims
2. Main Content
3. Critical Reflections

Personal Aims

1. Rules are easy to understand;
2. Depends on a combination of strength and skill;

Main Content

这是一个传统打手游戏的变化版本，一共为两名玩家参加。

规则如下：

①两位玩家初始状态为双手放于体前，手掌相对，合在一起，指尖朝前。且两位玩家站立姿态分别为左脚在前，右脚的脚尖接触着左脚脚后跟站立。以两位玩家各自在前的那只脚的脚尖相抵的状态站立。

②两位玩家轮流进攻，当一名玩家进攻时，另一名玩家则防守。玩家进攻时可以用任意一只手扇击对方的手，如击中手背，则进攻成功；防守的玩家可以将双手上下错开以躲避攻击，若以进攻方对侧的手掌接住了对方的扇击则算防守成功。

③每一回合中进攻成功的玩家撤回在前的那只脚，并移到后侧脚的后面，即后退了一步，同时另一位玩家需要保持后侧脚不动，前脚向前伸以抵住对方的脚尖，并保持站立（类似于劈叉）；防守成功了同理。

④两位玩家需要在游戏过程中保持不出声音，发出声音或是失衡、放弃了则判负。

This is a variation of the traditional slap game for two players.

Here are the rules:

① The initial state of the two players is hands in front of the body, palms facing each other, together, fingertips facing forward. The two players stand with their left foot in front of them and the tip of their right foot touching the heel of their left foot.

The tips of the two players’ front feet touch each other.

② Two players take turns attacking, while one player attacks, the other defends. When attacking, players can fan each other’s hands with any one hand, such as hitting the back of the hand, it is a “successful attack”;

A defending player can stagger his hands up and down to avoid an attack, and if he catches the attack with the opposite palm of the attacker’s hand, it is a “successful defense”.

③ In each turn, the successful attack‘s player pulls back on his front foot and moves behind his back foot (taking a step backwards), while the other player keeps his back foot still and puts his front foot forward to touch his opponent’s toe, and remains standing (similar to a split). The same goes for successful defense.

④ The two players need to keep silent during the game.

If anyone make a sound or lose balance, he/she lose.

Critical Reflections

1. If the player is resilient, then theoretically he can split more, which means he can afford to lose more times.

By the same token, if the player has strong arms, there should be a higher chance that the attack will succeed and throw the opponent off balance.

If the player does not have a physical advantage, he can use the opposite hand’s palm to catch the opponent’s attack to win, but this also requires considerable reflexes to execute.

2. The traditional hand slap game doesn’t include “splits”, which puts those players who are not that physically strong at a huge disadvantage, most notably for women, which cause a phenomenon that most of women don’t want to play this game.

But with the addition of the “splits”, it gives women, who are more resilient per capita, a way to compete with sheer strength.

3. In addition, the “try not to make any noise” rule makes the game itself more witty, less “hardcore” and serious, and adds a new challenge to the physical pain of hand slaps.