Some view the eyeballing routine as an unsporting attempt to intimidate the opposition before the match begins. It was New Zealand’s All Blacks rugby team who made it world famous, performing the traditional dance spectacle before matches. Taiaha (fighting staff) Patu (hand wield fighting club and many others. ![]() Samoa, Tonga Fiji all have one and when ever they compete in sport they perform these to each other its just the best to see that true Polynesian style!! no one does it better!! its an actual discipline that leads onto Healing practices and then Mamau (hand to hand combat) weaponry ie. The Haka “ Ka Mate Ka Mate” is a Maori war dance essentially from the Polynesian Maori culture, but no doubt we all have Haka within us all this is just how the Maori people express it. ![]() ![]() In New Zealand it’s become pretty common for most teams to do a pre-game Māori dance known as “ haka” to strike fear into the hearts of their opponents, ESPECIALLY in rugby! New Zealand’s war dance, the haka, was composed by the Maori tribe Ngati Toa’s warrior chief Te Rauparaha in the early 19th century to celebrate the fiery warrior’s escape from death in battle.
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