AMERICAN LEARNS THE HISTORY OF THE HAKA (NEW ZEALAND RUGBY 🏉) | Favour 

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Other countries do not “Let“ New Zealand perform the Hakka, quite the opposite really. A young guy like me growing up in the UK playing rugby, my dream was to be a player good enough to be in a team that would face the Hakka. I had a conversation with a friend once about what you would want to do before you died if you had a terminal illness. Top of the list is, and will always be, face up to a New Zealand Hakka

The All Blacks are the New Zealand national team so all players are native New Zealanders, or those who have obtained New Zealand citizenship. Trading only happens in club or league rugby. In International ruguy, you play for your national team.

Just so you know New Zealand is an island. It’s not part of Australia. And the Maori people which are indigenous to New Zealand have many tribes. New Zealand and Australia are neighbours and have a friendly rivalry and we get mildly offended when people say New Zealand is a part of Australia 😃

One reason I love rugby over other sports is the sense of respect teams have got the traditions of others

Americans struggle so hard to understand the concept of international sport competitions. You can't transfer your national team

The Haka is done from Schoolboy level: I've been in stadia when the Haka has been done - but to really feel the power, nothing compares with being in a small rugby club in NZ, and have the teams perform the haka to ach other. I was fortunate to have been in the Ories club in Wellington when Julian Savea was presented with his All Black shirt by his boyhood club. The entire place stood up and delivered a full-throated Haka to one of their own. The walls were bending...

OH NO IT'S NOT THE AUSTRALIAN TEAM!!!! You have just committed one of the greatest offences, confusing Australia and New Zealand!

New Zealand is the national team you cannot transfer to them without being a citizen of that nation

I respect the fact that you like to learn about the various cultures. Others simply react to videos and that is the end of it. Not you. You educate yourself. Nice to see.

A few years ago a teacher in a New Zealand school died and his students performed a haka in his memory. It was beautiful.

Other polynesian teams like Tonga have their own versions

You spoke about the mixture of ethnicities on the team, I think that as long as you're from New Zealand and representing the country you still take part. But don't take my word for it as I'm not from there

Have a look at the wedding Haka performed to the bride.

The all blacks is New Zealand’s National team. You won’t find players from other countries playing for them. Like all the national teams, all the players are from that country.

A comment from "The Greatest Haka ever?" video: "Imagine being some Christian European in the 1640’s, you just found this new island, and the locals come out and do this."

Check out the ‘Siva’ (Samoa) ‘Sipi Tau’ (Tonga) and Cibi (Fiji) too, most pacific island nations have their own ‘war dance’ before a game

The haka is used in many places, it can be used at a funeral to celebrate the life of the person who has died. It can be used at wedding as a congratulations there are many uses of the haka

I've watched the All Blacks perform the Haka for years and it's always special and has bought me to tears occasionally. It's a powerful and spiritual ceremony that adds to the game, wherever they play in the world.

there are different tribes in New Zealand I am from the tribe Ngati Porou

No, we do not trade people in Rugby. They can only go to that specific team if you have that heritage within. For example, if you wanted to go play for Samoa, and your Irish, it would most likely not happen unless you have some Samoan heritage in you.

They do the haka for all major events. Weddings funerals and even retire ment watch the high-school teacher retirement one a full gymnasium doing it

Wow I’m actually really surprised your pronunciation is quite amazing for someone who doesn’t speak the language, respect sista

I like the fact that if your not sure you do your research. That's how we learn and expand our horizons.

0:20 "The Australian team"... And I took that personally.

Did she really say Australia 😂😂😂

Hi, love your reaction to The All blacks, I'm from South Africa and our team is called the Springboks, The All blacks' greatest rivals. Couple of suggestions for you, in the video there's a guy called Dan Carter, he's like the Micheal Jordan of rugby in his position, magical player so react to Dan Carter and also the rivalry between The All blacks and The Springboks. Love your channel, keep it up!

Imagine 5000 Maori performing the Haka before British troops on the battlefield during the Maori Wars. Scary as shit! Many Polynesian teams have their own Haka. Tonga, Samoa etc. Cheers!

You have to live in New Zealand for about 8 years to be able to play for the all blacks

You should definitely react to Jason Mamoa’s Game of Thrones audition! He did the Haka and they were like you’re hired! Also they performed the haka during the premiere of Aquaman.

Day 2 of asking for the Māori all backs haka vs moana pasifika challenge

Imagine being able to honour your deep ancestry and traditions.. powerful..!

Favour, if international flights ever become normal again, I think you would LOVE New Zealand. Its a notoriously long flight, but its worth it. Have a great day

The All Blacks have a great rivalry with the Springboks . This rivalry has deep roots in shaping the cultural fabric of South Africa before and after Apartheid. Nelson Mandela used Rugby as a great unifier in South Africa's early democratic days. That NZ team was fantastic, and they were the Challenge the country needed to unite against.

When it comes to international sport you typicaly only play for your home nation. The exception is for someone who has perminantly migrated then they can play for their new nation but its always a big deal. For instance a Spanish player might transpher and play in a French team but unless unless he beomes a French citizen then if selected he would still play for Spain in international matches. As far as I am aware this is the case for all team sports.

Nga = nah ka= car mate = mah-tay his tattoos are tā moko. Tribal tattoos that are given depending on your role and your status, your mana (your power your prestige given to you by the ancestors) . Yes they have to learn if they want to play for us. Be in Aotearoa New Zealand be in our culture. Alot of the players are Pasifika and each culture has their own haka . It's fucking amazing . It's just as important if not more important than our national anthem.

Major League Rugby, the American club-level league, is all up on RU-vid. They give it a good crack, and are well worth watching. Also, the USA Rugby Sevens (7 player teams, as opposed to 15 player teams) are a force to be reckoned with. Watch, and enjoy!

Fun fact: The all black haka Kamate is not done on any Marae in the south island. Only in public venues. South Island Maori the Ngai Tahu have bad bloood with Te Raupraha. Think hatfield and Mcoy....

What a curious girl! Welldone,Flavour!

Always loved the Haka. It's powerful. I don't follow sport religiously but i enjoy rugby on the national level. I would say find the good Eng v NZ games but which ever you choose, i'd suggest just looking up the best matches of all time. P.S. Jonah Lomu was a beast of a man. Well worth checking out.

The All blacks are the most successful sports team in history. Over 120 years, they have a 77% winning record. There have been nine World Cup’s played in rugby. The all blacks were the first team to win three World Cup. So if they want to perform the haka, any challenger will have to just stand there and accept the challenge. When they return home to New Zealand, they are second-best only to the Black Ferns, the national women’s team, that has an 87% winning percentage. Of the eight World Cup’s in women’s rugby, The Black Ferns have won five. By the way, many black ferns are the younger sisters, daughters, and granddaughters, of all blacks.

Multi-ethnic...Got a friend in NZ who is descended from a guy who was Transported to Australia as a convict. He did his time and went to sea as a Whaler, eventually building his own business. He arrived in NZ and made a treaty with the local Maori tribe to use a local bay as his operating base for Whaling. One of his children married into that Maori tribe - they married the daughter of Te Rauparaha. She's a white girl with a Donegal Irish name - and one of her ancestor created this Haka...

Definitely learn more about New Zealand, it's a great place and the people are excellent as well. The only place other than Australia that I would ever want to live. They just always do things better. Great national anthem too.

they don't trade in international rugby if your born there have citizenship you're eligible to be picked by your national team if you play rugby and you are good at it.

As an Englishman I have often thought that the England team should answer the Haka with Morris Dancers, that would scare the hell out of anyone.

Regardless of what colour your skin is or what nationality you are, the New Zealanders are so respectful of their traditional landowners and the way they honour and respect the indigenous people to the land. You will find that in most schools they teach children of this history. The guys that you say look the same may also not be Maori, they may have a background of other Pacific Islands which may be Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Hawaii etc. Some Maori's also have a white complexion but would be mixed race, so the colour of the skin is not something to look at, as us Pacific Islanders know there is all shades from very light to dark.

The tattoos on the mans face is called a "Ta moko"

There are many Hakka and they get performed in many situations. I remember seeing a girls school performing one from the second world war. It dripped contempt.

One you should watch the recent Maori All Blacks vs Moana Pasifika game where they each did a Haka, it was incredible. And yes we have an All Blacks team & a Maori All Blacks team as well as a Women's Rugby team & a Jnr All Blacks team - all very successful teams - we are a rugby nation.

The All Blacks have two hakas they perform. Ka Mate, as the video says was composed by Te Rauparaha in the 1800s. The second one is quite new, it was composed for the All Blacks and initially finished with a throat cutting gesture. the namby pamby australians complained. Te Rauparaha is not a universally loved figure form NZ history, as he attacked many tribes in his efforts to ensure his tribes survival. The video glosses over how he wrote Ka Mate. He was actually fleeing from some warriors who had a Tohunga with them (spiritual leader) who wanted to kill him. He hid in a food storage hole and a woman sat on the hole to hide him from his pursuers. Te Rauparaha chats "Ka mate"- 'will i die?' "Ka Ora"-'or will I die?' to undermine the incantations of the Tohunga. The final line acknowledges his salvation thanks to the life giving power of woman that hid him. There are many Kapa Haka groups that perform hakas in NZ. There are a different set of movements for female performers- less aggressive, but still a statement of intent to go into battle.

Just quietly calling the All Blacks an Australian team would get you in trouble in most parts of New Zealand lol.

One of the typical moves in a Haka is for the males to stick their tongue out and bulge their eyes. It is both funny and scary to see, and the traditional meaning of the move is to say to the enemy “my mouth waters and I lick my lips for soon I will taste your flesh”.

Also it's very cool you're doing this 🙏🏽

It's really Great to see someone appreciate culture..👍💯

A few years ago there was a team that turned its back on the all blacks as they did the haka. It can't remember which team it was but it cause quite a stir and were heavily critisized for such a show of disrespect.

First vid I've watched, new sub.... your intelligence and your curiosity about other cultures immediately engaged me.

As a viking woman..I understand thw haka perfectly..

In my non-western cultures class they talked about polynesian cultures and they briefly mentioned the haka a little bit, they said that back in the day if you were a worthy opponent on the battlefield they would eat you to consume your mana (spiritual power), and the tongue thing is them telling you they're gonna eat you and take your mana into themselves.

The All Blacks are the new Zealand national rugby team. It's a national team so no trades or franchise etc

Haka formations are usually battle configurations. It highlights and consolidates the peoples resolve and unity. Ka Mate is about a man that lay down his life for his enemy. This epitomizes NZ.

Respect for watching this and learning about the haka. ✌️

There is no set formation to do the Haka, but there is a leader in the Haka who shouts the words to the whole team

The tongue out originally was a gesture to tell the enemy you were going to eat them.

The Maori are the indigenous people of NZ. Anyone who players for the NZ AB will join the haka performance before each match.

Its a traditional war cry the kiwis (new zealanders) used before battle.

You can find haka used in many situations - the first time I saw one it was being done to honour a teacher who died. It is a powerful ritual that is everything from a battle cry to a prayer.

The placement of players is usually the captain at the front and they just fall in behind...Recently they’ve used more of a V formation...I think the more senior members stand toward the front and the newer members fall in the back but I could be wrong on that

Awesome to see an American loving Ruby/haka... The All Blacks are awesome but as an English guy from London, what would you recommend we watch?

you can't trade players from intermational teams if you are born in a country (wales) and grow up there, you stay at that intrnational team bc its your nationality but if your born in a country (wales) and move to a different country (england) when you're like 5 and grow up there, you'll play for that national team (england) sorry if that dont make sense

Try looking at at a video of schoolboys doing a farewell Haka to a retiring teacher... it'll give goosebumps!!!

The All Blacks vs USA game at Chicago's Soldier's Field in 2014 would show the gap between New Zealand & the USA in rugby. For more equal games at the international level; 6 Nations and the Rugby Championship are the peak. At the professional club level; Super Rugby, the Japanese Rugby competition, and the top European competitions are best. The USA now has it's own pro rugby competition as well, see USA Rugby website.

watch the kapa o pango haka they did for maradona last week, then watch the highlights after

Australia doesn't do the Haka but it does haunt our dreams. We have an aboriginal war dance but we dont do it before games. Would love to see it though.

Watch the video of the funeral service of solders KIA in Afghanistan is powerful and very moving .

The Haka is one of the most moving things everyone must experience in life .

There's loads of haka stuff on RU-vid. It's quite fun to search out the different types. They have hakas at schools, funerals, weddings, etc.

You should react to when Tonga went head up with the New Zealand Haka it was crazy

hakka is ancestral dance which is meant to threaten their "enemy".

Haka is from the Maori people of New Zealand (Aotearoa). The rugby team "All Blacks" is also from New Zealand which is also special to kiwis. It is the most successful sporting team in any sport in the history of sports. Yes, the team loses a game or two here and there but most of the time wins. This has been the case for over 100 years.

The tradition of the haka in New Zealand is almost as common and known to do thing as your pledge to the flag. It is a war dance that doesn’t mean we challenge you but that we recognise you and respect you in this battlefield of sport we are about to go forth on. It is very common to see groups in the stand performing a counter haka at local games to show respect to the effort the players put in.

The haka is also performed at weddings and funerals. Check those out too.

Haka is universal in nz every tribe have their own haka every child learns kapahaka this haka is known nationally our culture and people have suffered greatly stolen land etc all the things that happen to any colonized land and today we as Maori still stand strong

Look at the history of the New Zealand treaty with the Maori, it's not been perfect and a lot of inequalities exist but Maori culture has been put into the New Zealand culture and their poetry is powerful. I love that an American is looking into this . XXX

From New Zealand; The All Blacks are THE most successful (win/loss ratio) in the History of Sport...globally!

I like your reactions and comments. Kia ora🙂

Chur, ask Kai Tahu about Te Rauparaha eh Ngati Toa 😂 no aroha there eh 😂

they don’t trade teams it’s a national team so you have to be from that country to play for that country

The Haka you react to is actually no the ka mate but the kapa o pango if I remember the name right, is a different haka more “aggressive” that they do to the teams with more rivalry like France (on the video you react) or South Africa and England

No one lets us do it . We do it

I can’t remember what game it was but they tried to ban the Haka but the opposition went against this new rule and gave the All Black the respect to do it. Great Britain don’t have a team, every U.K. country has there own teams on the national level and you can only move teams at that level if your of dual nationality i.e. Scottish/Kiwi

you have to watch the beats by dre haka doco

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There is not really any transfer of players. These are national teams that only form and play when there are national tournaments. The players normally play for regional teams across the world. i.e. some New Zealand players may play for a London team most of the time, and then play for their national team for one tournament every few years. The rules about who can play for a national team has been relaxed in recent years, but essentially you need some ancestry traditionally, or to have become a naturalised citizen.

You should do a reaction on the New Zealand schools! They will give you goosebumps too..

New Zealand it’s a National team like U.S soccer. So nobody from the English team could play for the All Blacks. The All Blacks are multinational like the Country ✌🏻❤️

Ngati Toa is not a large tribe in NZ There are millions of hakas still performed everyday. Ka mate is just one everyone knows.

thats the world cups when all there players play for their country

There's lots of Hakas. My son's high school has their own Haka

Guys she meant some players look native some clearly are not she is not saying that the white players are not citizens.

yES THEY do LEARN IT