Friday, 23 December 2011

Challenging The All Blacks Haka

The all blacks Haka is a war dance done by the New Zealand rugby team, its terrifying and magnificent at the same time, it derives back to the Maori's who did the Haka before going into battle.
The Haka is done as a sort of challenge to the opposing team and throughout the history of the game there has been times where the opposing team has accepted the challenge by challenging them in return.
For me the challenging of the Haka is an epic sporting moment but sadly the IRB disprove of it; the most recent  occurrence of the challenging of the Haka was in the rugby world cup final between France and New Zealand where France came forward in an arrow shape.

The IRB fined France 10000 dollars for getting closer than 10m to the Haka as its 'disrespectful' but the All blacks and I think the rest of the nation respectively disagree with them.

Other occasions of the Haka challenges:



Both Ireland's and France's challenges were incredible but by far my favourite challenge comes from Richard Cockerill in 1997, watch this its legendary-



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