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68Nga Taonga Takaro
Nga Taonga Takaro Maori sports and exercises are encapsulated within the Realm of Nga Taonga Takaro (NTT). This realm includes all the cultural and natural world influences on the participants of sports & games before, during and after...
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74NZ Rugby Morally Bereft
The NZ rugby fraternity have negatively influenced NZ society for over a century. Their influences have leached into every aspect of the NZ psyche and therefore NZ society. Paying players, arranging cushy jobs, accomodation, food and cars was...
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67Call for Ki-o-Rahi tolerance
As the Maori handball game, Ki-o-Rahi, continues to gain in popularity in New Zealand, and the dominant NZ sporting organisation, the New Zealand Rugby Football Union, continues to subvert the revival of...
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72Maori ball sports
Ki-o-Rahi korero Each tribe has its own history. Some of these ball playing histories have been amalgamated into the game known since the return of the Maori Battalion (post-WW2) as Ki-o-Rahi. Previously...
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67Ki-o-Rahi Dieppe Organisation (KDO)
The first officially incorporated European ki-o-rahi association has been formed by a group of Dieppe, France, players, lead by their President Bruno Veron and his wife Helene. See...
71Ki-o-Rahi whakapapa
Ki-o-Rahi Games and sports of Maori do not really feature in our mainstream NZ historical accounts. The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King does not mention, even one sentence, on any specific Maori sport! Maori dictionaries,...
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65Dynamic Ki-o-Rahi rules copied by rugby union again!
Its back again! The rugby union are trying to enhance their game again by copying ki-o-rahi rules. Allowing hands in the ruck, when two or more players are contesting the ball on the ground, has been a part of ki-o-rahi for centuries. Now the rugby...
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68The Legend of Rahi
The Legend of Rahi-Tutaka-hina How Ki-o-Rahi, the game of Rahi-Tutaka-hina, came into being.... Rahi-Tutaka-hina had a beautiful wife named Ti Arakura-pake-wai. One day a Patupaiarehe raiding party from a...
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61Touch Ki-o-Rahi
Touch Ki-o-Rahi is a very fast, action packed game where there are minimal stoppages. Its perpetual motion has immense attraction to sportspeople. Touch is very popular in the provinces of Otago and Manawatu,...
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