Brother.. as a NZer.. I am humbled by your words! Man.. my first ever dream was to play for the All Blacks.. Shoulda woulda coulda lol. There's a book a writer wrote based on his time he spent with the All Blacks - LEGACY .. it's worth reading. edit A suggestion pop up suggested The Haka 360° ? 👌🏼👌🏼
Think about it this way, and this is a real eye opener (disclaimer: I'm a native American who spent time in New Zealand). The Maori are indigenous, just like we have the Navajo, Apache, Cherokee, Sioux, or my tribe, Choctaw. Each tribe has their own native language. Wash/rinse/repeat here for the Maori. The big difference here is that not only have they learned to respect, honor, and pay tribute to their indigenous people, but they have accepted them as equals in their culture, whereas some here in the US still regard we natives as inferior and treat them with disdain or mockery (for example, the Washington NFL team, the tomahawk chop, etc.). What we in the US need to do is take what the New Zealanders are doing with their natives and echo that sentiment up here. I was rather honored to learn Ka Mate, and the meaning of the composition behind it. What I would like to do is compose similar: a Haka, but using my tribe's language. Oh.. If you want to think abut it this way, think of a Haka like a school's fight song. Each school down there has their own Haka. Some their national sports teams have their own Haka as well: The Tall Blacks (NZ's national basketball team) has their own Haka; in fact, they went viral when they performed it against Team USA. The Maori All Blacks (rugby team, but is made up of those who are only of Maori descent) have their own Haka. The All Whites (NZ's Soccer team) has their own Haka. Some from NZ can correct me on this, but the men's teams for various sports can also perform Ka Mate or their own Haka, while the Maori All Blacks normally perform the Timatanga. In the NZ All Black's case, they either perform Ka Mate, or Kapa o Pango. Kapa o Pango is unique to the All Blacks, as they were instrumental in composing that Haka. Their women's teams have their own Haka as well. And more than that, there are Hakas that aren't even relative to sports, as some, like the Tika Tonu are performed at weddings.
Win or die trying. As a caucasian Kiwi female, I knew the Haka from 5 yrs old. I spent 10 yrs across the US & can say categorically, The Haka is to Kiwi's what the Star-Spangled Banner & Flag combined are to Americans. It brings everyone together. Please watch the Haka for Jonah Lomu's funeral, NZ cried together that day.
I'm Australian. About 15 years ago I went on a 3-day live-aboard SCUBA diving trip on the outer Great Barrier Reef in northern Australia (About 50 miles or 80 kilometres off the coast) Among the paying guests on board the boat were 6 Australian, 2 French guys, 3 American couples and a German girl. All the five crew members were Kiwis. There was the Captain, Dive-master, Dive instructor the deck-hand and the cook. When the trip was finished, we went back to the mainland to Cairns and that evening we had a farewell dinner and drinks in a bar in Cairns. Late in the evening, the five Kiwi crew members went and asked permission from the bar owner to do a Haka. We were pretty much the only people in the bar at that time (maybe another 4 or 5 people who weren't part of our dive group) Actually, I had a feeling that they knew the bar owner and I think he was also a Kiwi. There was a HUGE table, made out of a giant slab of wood from a tree. . the Kiwi guys all stripped down to shorts (no shoes or socks - it was in the tropics, of course) and got up on the table They started the Haka. . . All the Europeans and Americans were a bit puzzled and bemused for the first few seconds, but as the intensity of the Haka built up, many of them looked downright TERRIFIED, because they had *NO IDEA* what they were witnessing! We Aussies reassured the foreigners that it was all OK and that this was a Kiwi 'thing'. Well - By the end of the Haka, the three American women were crying and all the others were dumbstruck! They had never experienced something so POWERFUL and amazing in all their lives. It's one thing to watch a Haka on a screen, but to see it UP CLOSE it is *TOTALLY OVERWHELMING*
As an Aussie I hate it when we lose a rugby match, AB's are the only team that routinely flogs the Wallabies! And I understand that, they are peerless!
I a NZer (despite my QLD cover photo) but love Rugby and as a Rugby Fan, I sincerely hope the Wallabys return to it's former glory tbh.. for the good of Rugby, Southern Hemisphere Rugby lol .. BOKKE fan too lol
@@BLew657 This is recent, like last few years. over the last 50 years the ABs have been the best at flogging us. We have a reasonable record against all others. Cheers!
Awesome reaction mate and glad you liked the history and how it all come together... Yes the Intense Haka between the All Blacks and Tonga is so good well watching a couple of times. Tonga even smaller nation than NZ put up a good show...!
Like New Zealand, Rugby in Wales is near to being a religion, these two countries are roughly the same population but I bet they both have twice the number of men and women that play rugby regularly compared to the USA. The USA may be a big country, but it’s a small rugby country by comparison. Talking about the Haka that are performed at the start of an All Black’s game, I was told by a New Zealander I worked with, the sticking out of the tongue during the Haka means I will soon taste your flesh and blood. Also the Ka mate which may or may not be banned at this time, is seen by many as being not needed in international rugby. The ka mate is the drawing of the thumb across the throat in a throat cutting motion. The gesture is said to mean the breathing in of spirit and building energy, but some All Black players stick out their tongues while drawing the thumb across the throat, which changes the meaning and spirit the ka mate gesture. Also, If you have Amazon Prime tv, you should be able to see all the Autumn Internationals being shown from the 6/11/21 or 11/06/21 if your from the US.
Just a heads up from a kiwi here, "Kapa O Pango" is the name of the haka itself, the throat slitting gesture is the motion in the haka that has been changed to a motion across the chest (though I've noticed the odd player still does the throat one sometimes). Big respect to Welsh Rugby btw!
@@williamgilbert6621 Thanks for pointing that out.. I’ve researched it again and found that, Ka mate is the gesture of slitting the throat and kapa o Pango is the Haka in which the ka mate is the final gesture. I’m from the original ( probably not the best) Canterbury in England, I have a NZ mate that moved from Canterbury NZ to Canterbury Eng, he went to uni here, while working in a bar( as per the stereotype) had a few year of partying after uni then move from Canterbury Eng back to Canterbury NZ.
Buddy I am Maori, so I will tell you what it means. Ka mate is the name of one of the haka performed by the all blacks, and it simply means death. It is death, I am dead, I die - it means all of those things all at once. The slit cutting motion is not called ka mate - although it can be symbolized to mean "ka mate". It is a gesture that can mean anything from "I have taken your life force" to "I defeated the odds against me" to "death do us part". This motion is used in hundreds of different haka within Maori Culture, and most of the time it doesnt symbolize anything to do with ka mate. The protruding of the tongue is called a pukana. And while it useto mean "I will eat you" in the literal sense, it is now used as a symbol to proclaim triumph over adversity.
Can watch the video of the 100 years between all blacks and south africa on the all blacks official channel it really shows why its the greatest rivalry in rugby and it shows what it means to both teams it is called looking back on a 100 years of all black and south african rugby
You said before you wanted a full match to watch. I can highly recommend France v Argentina from today (I should have said before I knew it would be good) It was shown on Amazon Prime in the UK and will be available there to re watch in full. Not sure if you can get that in the USA... vpn? but this game is one you really want to watch in full and not just highlights. Maybe will get uploaded on youtube.
Dan Carter comment about 'preforming the haka before the game no matter what nothings gonna stop us.' I cant remember the team, (it was on a northern hemisphere tour) but for some reason they didn't want it preformed on the ground cause of time restriction or something, so they held play up by preforming in the changing room before entry the field which took up more time.
You should watch our rugby league team, The Kiwi’s, hakas. Often they are even better than the All Blacks haka’s. They aren’t anywhere near as dominant a team though
I'm curious to hear your opinion on the American commentating (The USA vs NZ 2014 match) vs. the other matches' commentating that you've seen. I felt like the AmerIcan commentators was a bit more bias, also calling out mistakes like forwards, which a normal commentator in rugby wouldn't do, until the referee calls it out first. And of course, aaaall the stats they can gather, player sizes, heights, history ect. I'm guessing they were probably Amercan Football commentators asked to commentate on the rugby match.
Honestly didn't even think about it because that's how American commentators usually are lol. Throughout a football game you get all sorts of random info and insight of what the teams are doing right or wrong
i mean i have to do this so 4:00 russian and baltic languages (latvian, lithuanian) are not simillar russian is slavic like belarusian, ukrainian, czech, polish and so on estonia is in baltic but language is uralic like finnish or hungarian fun fact lithuanian is ancient like older than greek it has similarities to sanscrit thjat was found in india
Brother.. as a NZer.. I am humbled by your words! Man.. my first ever dream was to play for the All Blacks.. Shoulda woulda coulda lol. There's a book a writer wrote based on his time he spent with the All Blacks - LEGACY .. it's worth reading.
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A suggestion pop up suggested The Haka 360° ? 👌🏼👌🏼
well hope the man see's this, its pronounced (kah-mah-te) im from hawaii born and raised, and boy do we need to do a haka for may day king and queen
Think about it this way, and this is a real eye opener (disclaimer: I'm a native American who spent time in New Zealand). The Maori are indigenous, just like we have the Navajo, Apache, Cherokee, Sioux, or my tribe, Choctaw. Each tribe has their own native language. Wash/rinse/repeat here for the Maori. The big difference here is that not only have they learned to respect, honor, and pay tribute to their indigenous people, but they have accepted them as equals in their culture, whereas some here in the US still regard we natives as inferior and treat them with disdain or mockery (for example, the Washington NFL team, the tomahawk chop, etc.).
What we in the US need to do is take what the New Zealanders are doing with their natives and echo that sentiment up here. I was rather honored to learn Ka Mate, and the meaning of the composition behind it. What I would like to do is compose similar: a Haka, but using my tribe's language.
Oh.. If you want to think abut it this way, think of a Haka like a school's fight song. Each school down there has their own Haka. Some their national sports teams have their own Haka as well:
The Tall Blacks (NZ's national basketball team) has their own Haka; in fact, they went viral when they performed it against Team USA.
The Maori All Blacks (rugby team, but is made up of those who are only of Maori descent) have their own Haka.
The All Whites (NZ's Soccer team) has their own Haka.
Some from NZ can correct me on this, but the men's teams for various sports can also perform Ka Mate or their own Haka, while the Maori All Blacks normally perform the Timatanga. In the NZ All Black's case, they either perform Ka Mate, or Kapa o Pango. Kapa o Pango is unique to the All Blacks, as they were instrumental in composing that Haka.
Their women's teams have their own Haka as well.
And more than that, there are Hakas that aren't even relative to sports, as some, like the Tika Tonu are performed at weddings.
Win or die trying. As a caucasian Kiwi female, I knew the Haka from 5 yrs old. I spent 10 yrs across the US & can say categorically, The Haka is to Kiwi's what the Star-Spangled Banner & Flag combined are to Americans. It brings everyone together. Please watch the Haka for Jonah Lomu's funeral, NZ cried together that day.
The actor who played Jengo Fett in Star Wars 'Temuera Morrison' is a Maori and yes he did play professional Rugby.
I'm Australian.
About 15 years ago I went on a 3-day live-aboard SCUBA diving trip on the outer Great Barrier Reef in northern Australia (About 50 miles or 80 kilometres off the coast)
Among the paying guests on board the boat were 6 Australian, 2 French guys, 3 American couples and a German girl.
All the five crew members were Kiwis. There was the Captain, Dive-master, Dive instructor the deck-hand and the cook.
When the trip was finished, we went back to the mainland to Cairns and that evening we had a farewell dinner and drinks in a bar in Cairns.
Late in the evening, the five Kiwi crew members went and asked permission from the bar owner to do a Haka. We were pretty much the only people in the bar at that time (maybe another 4 or 5 people who weren't part of our dive group) Actually, I had a feeling that they knew the bar owner and I think he was also a Kiwi.
There was a HUGE table, made out of a giant slab of wood from a tree. . the Kiwi guys all stripped down to shorts (no shoes or socks - it was in the tropics, of course) and got up on the table
They started the Haka. . . All the Europeans and Americans were a bit puzzled and bemused for the first few seconds, but as the intensity of the Haka built up, many of them looked downright TERRIFIED, because they had *NO IDEA* what they were witnessing!
We Aussies reassured the foreigners that it was all OK and that this was a Kiwi 'thing'.
Well - By the end of the Haka, the three American women were crying and all the others were dumbstruck!
They had never experienced something so POWERFUL and amazing in all their lives.
It's one thing to watch a Haka on a screen, but to see it UP CLOSE it is *TOTALLY OVERWHELMING*
As an Aussie I hate it when we lose a rugby match, AB's are the only team that routinely flogs the Wallabies! And I understand that, they are peerless!
I a NZer (despite my QLD cover photo) but love Rugby and as a Rugby Fan, I sincerely hope the Wallabys return to it's former glory tbh.. for the good of Rugby, Southern Hemisphere Rugby lol .. BOKKE fan too lol
Everyone routinely flogs the Aussies...what u on about ))
@@dundadunda552 Whatever!
South Africa routinely flog the wallabies too. And they are current world champs 🏆
@@BLew657 This is recent, like last few years. over the last 50 years the ABs have been the best at flogging us. We have a reasonable record against all others.
Cheers!
Most intense haka ever is definitely, The Kiwis vs Tonga rugby league. It's on TH-cam, you'll never see any other haka like it.
Awesome reaction mate and glad you liked the history and how it all come together... Yes the Intense Haka between the All Blacks and Tonga is so good well watching a couple of times. Tonga even smaller nation than NZ put up a good show...!
The hakas they do after someone’s passing always hit me in the heart strings
There's alot of greatness with achievements from our people in little ol New Zealand bro
Our Soldiers in WW2 performed the Haka and frightened the teko out of the enemy. 😆
the kiwi league team have some pretty good haka's as well. and the other island nations perform their own challenge and is well worth a watch
I think Maori sounds like its from another time...like an ancient language! Thanku for showing respect for my culture :)
Of course! Thank you for tuning in!
Like New Zealand, Rugby in Wales is near to being a religion, these two countries are roughly the same population but I bet they both have twice the number of men and women that play rugby regularly compared to the USA. The USA may be a big country, but it’s a small rugby country by comparison.
Talking about the Haka that are performed at the start of an All Black’s game, I was told by a New Zealander I worked with, the sticking out of the tongue during the Haka means I will soon taste your flesh and blood. Also the Ka mate which may or may not be banned at this time, is seen by many as being not needed in international rugby. The ka mate is the drawing of the thumb across the throat in a throat cutting motion. The gesture is said to mean the breathing in of spirit and building energy, but some All Black players stick out their tongues while drawing the thumb across the throat, which changes the meaning and spirit the ka mate gesture.
Also, If you have Amazon Prime tv, you should be able to see all the Autumn Internationals being shown from the 6/11/21 or 11/06/21 if your from the US.
Just a heads up from a kiwi here, "Kapa O Pango" is the name of the haka itself, the throat slitting gesture is the motion in the haka that has been changed to a motion across the chest (though I've noticed the odd player still does the throat one sometimes).
Big respect to Welsh Rugby btw!
@@williamgilbert6621 Thanks for pointing that out..
I’ve researched it again and found that, Ka mate is the gesture of slitting the throat and kapa o Pango is the Haka in which the ka mate is the final gesture. I’m from the original ( probably not the best) Canterbury in England, I have a NZ mate that moved from Canterbury NZ to Canterbury Eng, he went to uni here, while working in a bar( as per the stereotype) had a few year of partying after uni then move from Canterbury Eng back to Canterbury NZ.
Buddy I am Maori, so I will tell you what it means.
Ka mate is the name of one of the haka performed by the all blacks, and it simply means death. It is death, I am dead, I die - it means all of those things all at once.
The slit cutting motion is not called ka mate - although it can be symbolized to mean "ka mate". It is a gesture that can mean anything from "I have taken your life force" to "I defeated the odds against me" to "death do us part". This motion is used in hundreds of different haka within Maori Culture, and most of the time it doesnt symbolize anything to do with ka mate.
The protruding of the tongue is called a pukana. And while it useto mean "I will eat you" in the literal sense, it is now used as a symbol to proclaim triumph over adversity.
@@mrtnite9780 Beautifully said, and thanks for taking the time to explain, kia ora
I find alot of smaller youtuber get alot of subs for watching stuff that countries are proud of. Like new zealand and the haka paired with rugby
Can watch the video of the 100 years between all blacks and south africa on the all blacks official channel it really shows why its the greatest rivalry in rugby and it shows what it means to both teams it is called looking back on a 100 years of all black and south african rugby
I got a copyright strike the last time I reacted to that channel
@@BlakeHC ok but I still recommend you should watch it in your spare time I believe you would enjoy it
You said before you wanted a full match to watch. I can highly recommend France v Argentina from today (I should have said before I knew it would be good) It was shown on Amazon Prime in the UK and will be available there to re watch in full. Not sure if you can get that in the USA... vpn? but this game is one you really want to watch in full and not just highlights. Maybe will get uploaded on youtube.
Hey Blake
Love the content man and keep up the good work, I would like you to react to the most brutal knock out tackles of rugby.
During WW2 the Maori Battalion were the fiercest Battalion and are credited with giving Hitler his first defeat.
Thank you for saying that, we're very proud of our AB's, they're fantastic Ambassadors for our small 3 Island Nation.
Dan Carter comment about 'preforming the haka before the game no matter what nothings gonna stop us.' I cant remember the team, (it was on a northern hemisphere tour) but for some reason they didn't want it preformed on the ground cause of time restriction or something, so they held play up by preforming in the changing room before entry the field which took up more time.
New Zealand isn't actually THAT small! Not if you think the United Kingdom is small. In fact New Zealand is a little larger than the UK.
Nice video cuz
New sub from NZ great reaction
You should watch our rugby league team, The Kiwi’s, hakas. Often they are even better than the All Blacks haka’s. They aren’t anywhere near as dominant a team though
When that Haka was created the Māori wore tattoos covering their faces . It must have been a fearsome sight.
Blake from what I learned from this kamate kamate kaora kaora means will I live or will I die
I also recommend watching all blacks on the haka you will like it
Maori language is a Polynesian dialectic maori are Polynesian
Cool reaction bro
Wales vs All Blacks 2021 weekend gone
Fun Fact: The Jawas in Star Wars speak Xhosa (South African language)
The US does Sport like no-one else in our World, it's epic the US is embracing Rugby. Thank you!
I'm curious to hear your opinion on the American commentating (The USA vs NZ 2014 match) vs. the other matches' commentating that you've seen. I felt like the AmerIcan commentators was a bit more bias, also calling out mistakes like forwards, which a normal commentator in rugby wouldn't do, until the referee calls it out first. And of course, aaaall the stats they can gather, player sizes, heights, history ect. I'm guessing they were probably Amercan Football commentators asked to commentate on the rugby match.
Honestly didn't even think about it because that's how American commentators usually are lol. Throughout a football game you get all sorts of random info and insight of what the teams are doing right or wrong
Nice bro
The All Blacks only do 2 Hakas, depending on who they're playing.
if you think Maori sounds strange listen to the South African Xhosa language, try Miriam Makeba song "Qonggothwane"
Watch the beats by dre haka
Our Kiwi league team do the haka as well before every test same as the All Blacks
Maori and japanese language have similarities. They both write their sentences backwards.
React to Eben Etzebeth and Faf de Klerk from South Africa please man i like your videos!!
How did you like the haka history
really interesting
So if you like star wars, then you must know the actor who plays jango fett is maori...
Best haka on TH-cam,
Te Waka huia tamaki haka!!
Lol austronesian language which maori is a member of, is the fourth largest language group in the world
Te rau paraha napoleon of the pacific
i mean i have to do this so 4:00 russian and baltic languages (latvian, lithuanian) are not simillar russian is slavic like belarusian, ukrainian, czech, polish and so on estonia is in baltic but language is uralic like finnish or hungarian fun fact lithuanian is ancient like older than greek it has similarities to sanscrit thjat was found in india
The Haka language and war cry was born out of a Woman with long hair protecting a hunted Maori Warrior.
Lol our country is full up now 5million is enough