This study aims to find out the meaning of physical activity of indigenous people about the process of implementing traditionals rituals that provide references to physical education, social and cultural impacts, as well as positive impacts for daily life in the survival of baduy people. Researchers have explored the physical activity of local wisdom in Baduy indigenous people as a viewpoint or way of life of the past that can be applied to its values in the present. This research uses interactive qualitative method that is ethnographic by doing description and analysis of a community based on field research. Research informants are traditional leaders of the Baduy indigenous people and youth in Kanekes Village, Leuwidamar District, Lebak Regency, Banten Province. Data collection in this study used interview, observation, and documentation techniques. The results of this study, get the meaning of physical activity in farming culture by grouping based on the stages of farming activities of the Baduy people such as Narawas, Nyacar, Nukuh, Ngaduruk, Ngaseuk, Ngirab Sawan, Mipit, Made, Ngunjal, Ngayaran, Ngawalu, and Seba. This pattern of farming activities is not just a job but a religious obligation. Therefore, the youth of the Baduy community have good body resistance (fit), the formation of attitudes (character), and various motor activities, so that they can be a reference in physical education and community fitness.
FOOD AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: an ethnographic study