Aug
I may be a kiwi, and live in New Zealand, but I can’t say I’m a fan or Rugby, or Rugby League. I’m always glad to hear that the All Blacks won, or that the Warriors kicked ass (it’s national pride, see. Although I hear the Warriors had a pretty pathetic season . . .) but overall I couldn’t name more than a handful of players, have no idea who the coaches are, or know anything about the last few games that I didn’t watch.
In saying that, I AM pretty proud that before every game, the All Blacks do The Haka. That they man up, get their cultural pride on and put up a challenge to their opposition. Deva wrote a post the other day about the etiquette around The Haka. I won’t get into it, but she made a really fantastic point about the RESPONSES to The Haka.
In short, you don’t do what Wales did:
Epic fail, Wales. Epic Epic Fail. The AB’s just did the HAKA, they aren’t standing down.
Instead, you man up like Tonga:
Fucking, AWESOME! As Deva said, “That’s how you tell the All Blacks you ain’t singin’, you bringin’.” And I totally agree with her 100%. Hell Fucking Yes. :)
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Yay. I love the internet. This is something I know zero about (all I know about rugby is it’s kind of like American football but without padding and all I know about American football are that there are touchtowns and sometimes people get tackled). These are videos I never would have otherwise seen, but now I know something new: the Haka is awesome. Thanks Elly.
@JJ – The Haka is TOTALLY awesome. And also kind of scary. At my best friends wedding her cousins did one to the bridal table to honour her, and it was just AWESOME, in the true sense of the word. It was intimidating, and I actually almost cried in awe of the honour they gave the newly-weds by doing one. It was pretty amazing. And it’s moments like that one that totally make me proud to be Maori. I’m pretty glad that New Zealand has taken one of it’s cultural traditions and brought it to the world stage. And yay for the internet! :)
Haha, oh I don’t know why they’re hating on Neemia Tialata in the first video you posted. NEEMIA RULES!
Great post, love your work :D