So the New Zealand All Blacks managed to keep the edge on South Africa in Saturday’s Tri Nations rugby union game at Carisbrook in Dunedin. The score: 31-27. Maybe a deciding factor was the new haka written for the All Blacks and performed for the first time. Usually the haka is led by a Maori member of the All Blacks. This time it was led by Tana Umaga, a Samoan New Zealander. It was just as impressive.
Performing a haka certainly stirs the spirit. As a university student I lived at Knox College, an all-male hostel at the time. When it came time for inter-hostel swimming carnival all 150 of us performed a haka beside the swimming pool. If my memory serves me right we didn’t win the carnival but we did make an impression.
The words for the new All Blacks haka here come from the All Blacks official page.
For more on the traditional haka see the NZ Folk Song website or Tu Strategies.
For the pronunciation of vowels:
a as in car
e as in where (1st e)
i as in me “hi” sounds like “he”
o as in awe
u as in put or foot
See the Maori Language site for more clues on dipthongs and consonants.
KIA WHAKAWHENUA AU I AHAU!
Let me become one with the land
HI AUE, HI!!
KO AOTEAROA E NGUNGURU NEI!
This is our land that rumbles
AU, AU, AUE HA!
And it’s my time! It’s my moment!
KO KAPA O PANGO E NGUNGURU NEI !
This defines us as the All Blacks
AU, AU, AUE HA!
It’s my time! It’s my moment!
I AHAHA!
KA TU TE IHIIHI
Our dominance
KA TU TE WANAWANA
Our supremacy will triumph
KI RUNGA KI TE RANGI E TU IHO NEI
TU IHO NEI, HI!
And will be placed on high
>PONGA RA!
Silver fern!
KAPA O PANGO, AUE HI!
All Blacks!
PONGA RA
Silver fern!
KAPA O PANGO, AUE HI, HA!
All Blacks!
it was awesome haka an well led by umanga i would like to see them at the begining give it heaps
umamga covered that up by his performance it was great
i really enjoyed the new haka . Ka mate was and is still cool but the new one really put some extra energy into the game boosted their performances and gave a new meaning to nz rugby, good on tana aswell growing up in the samoan heritage he adapted to leading the haka and got used to it aswell. although i would like to see a maori do it but its all good. the whole team performed well overall good luck for the rest of the season and future all black rugby.
I do believe it when they say the ALL BLACKS are the best team in the world i mean last year they had only lost two games in the tri nations one to australia and one to the springboks this year i believe so far they have only lost one game to the south africans at the beginning of the trinations. so far we are running low on flyhalves scrumhalves and fullbacks but we will get there….. GO ALL BLACKS!!!!!!!
I really enjoyed watching the new Haka being performed before this game, but I have to admit i was shocked to see it happen, when I was expecting the old one lol
I hadn’t bother finding out what the words meant, too lazy lol Awesome to read them here on your site.
Thanks 🙂
I really enjoy wathing the old haka,but the new haka is very exciting and i love to wach it….Here where i work i normly lead some of our rugby boys to do the fijian haka followed by the nz haka.
I love nz to do the new haka
thanks
o well!! as a kaivitee pwincess.. i think the haka is sooooooooo… just soooo… good! i think it’s the people doing it that makes it like… BAM! LOLZ! well… gud luck boys on your games…. wink,wink….. love the haka…. xoxoxoxoxo
very cool