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The haka.
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I know our neighbours over the ditch in Australia have seen the haka a few times before one of the rugby games between our teams, but I thought I'd give an idea of the significance of it..

Originally it started as something that was to do two things, one was to scare the people that were getting invaded, the second was to get the invaders 'psyched up' before the battle..

Different Iwi or tribes some times had differing haka, but the idea's behind them were the same, try and scare the opposition as much as possible and therefore hopefully win the battle they were about to have..

Some of the Iwi used to get a bit sneeky way back when someone came to invade them and started doing the haka, they'd get some of the young good looking wahine (women) to go and distract the invaders, this quite often gave enough time for them to sneak out from the marae or pa and and get the invaders from behind.. do some damage to the invaders before they attacked..

It worked on a number of occasions too, especially if the invading party had traveled a long distance, the men were of course quite pleased to see a few good looking young women coming out to meet them, lol..

I often remember watching the rugby when I was younger, the haka wasn't always done before every game then, so some times a good scarey haka with a few tough mean faces in it was enough to psych out the other team a bit and leave things a bit more in the All Blacks favour.. it was really only done when we knew we had a harder game to play, the British and Australians always gave the All Blacks a good run for their money, so it was a good idea to try and scare them a bit beforehand..

Anyway, as I say, the haka started out as more of a war dance and designed to try and scare the opposition as much as possible, and hopefully making it easier to win the upcoming battle...
Love many, trust few, paddle your own waka.
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