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One of the traditional sports event is mipansa (finger wrestling); here two participants are set to mipansa.

Back in our hometown in Sabah, Kaamatan celebration includes traditional sports such as buffalo race (milumba karabau), arm wrestling (mipulos), knuckle and finger wrestling (mipansa), wrestling (migogol), blow pipe shooting (monopuk), stilts race (mamarampanau), tug of war (mitarik lukug), running (manangkus), bamboo rafting (mamangkar), single-bamboo pole rafting (manampatau) and so on.

Being a sport that doesnt require a large area or special equipment; mipansa is a quick, socially popular and competitive sport.

You have to be talented at it: it requires strength and stamina, as well as skill and knowing the right time to make full use of the energy to bring down the opponent. It is really a homeland sport of the Kadazandusun.