Mau Rākau Stances / Ahai - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Kia ora e te iwi,
Welcome back to our channel. For those that are new here, we Caleb and Jackie run a small Māori pakihi (business) here in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) New Zealand. We create handmade taonga that is unique to our culture here in Aotearoa.
We listened to your feedback regarding new mau rākau content, so here it is. This is the first part of a four part series where Caleb will be teaching you different ahai or stances. A little disclaimer, everything that Caleb teaches is purely the stances or ahai that he has adpoted and practices frequently. If you visit different wānanga, these may be called different names or be a new stance all together. These videos are simply from our experience and help to give you a good foundation for your mau rākau journey.
The ahai you will learn today:
Tū whakatā - resting stance
Noa - on guard stance
Toropaepae - karakia stance
Hawaiki Tū - paying homeage stance
Have a go e te iwi and let us know in the comments what you think!! If you try this at home, please tag us on Instagram @calebtekotiri. We love seeing your content and it reallhy inspires us to keep going.
Ngā mihi,
Caleb & Jackie
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Ngaa mihi Caleb and whanau. We have started this with our 5 year moko i a ata. He is also doing the karakia and is almost all there with the short karakia. His name is the same as his koro Noa. So we take all with a grain of salt we love it. We started part 2 this week and he/ we are up to "te tohu a tu".
He panui taku. We practice with each of us leafing and change up the order, pai teeraa? Heoi anoo he nui te aroha mo to mahi mo tooku whaanau,
Hello I am a boy of 12 years,I am from Springsteen in europe but Il like the clan maoria and all of them of aotearoa
Kia ora e hoa! Kia pai mai hoki! I'm so happy you're showing how to do those ahai. I've been practicing but I've been using videos where the guys don't give you any explanations so it's difficult to reproduce and there are probably lots of mistakes. I'll be practicing with your videos now. I hope you'll make more of them. Maybe you can teach us more mau rākau stuff. There's not enough on the internet. Kia pai tō rā 🙏 If you're in Auckland, stay safe! I hope it'll stop raining!
Tēnā koe e hoa, mō taku hē (apologies) for the late response to your comment. Wow, thank you so much for the beautiful feedback, we really appreciate it. Completely agree, there’s definitely not enough of this content out there. We will absolutely share more videos and excited to see what comes next. We hope you enjoy and please feel free to tag us on Instagram at @calebtekotiri if you try our ahai at home! Ngā mihi! 😊
🌿Awesome Kapai Chur.. love it Bro 🌬️❤️🔥🍃
Ngā mihi e hoa!! We really appreciate your tattoo! Ngā mihi!!
Kia my bro love all these videos! was wondering if you could do the same series instead with with te patu rakau/ mere pounamu
Kia ora bro, thank you for your tautoko! I would love to do a series using patu rākau but unfortunately I don't pertain those skills as of yet. I was taught in order to move on to mere pounamu, I need to be a master of the rākau and I still have a long ways to go in this space. Maybe one day though I'll be able to e hoa... it's a lifelong journey! We'll make sure to record this content and my journey for you all.
Hope that helps! Mauri ora 🍃
Kia ora,ko Tina taku ingoa,love your mahi
We really appreciate your tautoko!!
Thank you for passing on your knowledge bro
Always my bro! Ngā mihi for your tautoko on our channel.
Perfect , Waiting for new videos
Thanks so much!!
Love this content
Thanks so much!!
Big respect 🙌. Enjoying the Maui Rakau 💪💪🙏
Yay that’s so awesome, glad you enjoyed it!! Please feel free to tag us on Instagram e hoa if you managed to do this at home @calebtekotiri 🤙🏾 Ngā mihi for your comment!!
Thank you for sharing
No worries at all! How did you find our channel e hoa?
@@Tekotiri Good old search for "Mau Rakau". A channel I follow for Scottish Broadswords has started featuring it. Love the recognition. I don't feel I was exposed to enough while growing up in NZ. Getting better access in Scotland!
Wow that's amazing!!! Please let us know the name of the channel you mentioned and we'll subscribe and support them too! Ngā mihi!
Kia ora from Sydney! Are you fella’s still online? Love you’re mahi
Kia ora!!! Thank you for your message. Yup we are still online e hoa. We haven't had a chance to create Mau Rākau content in awhile, however have been doing a couple of vlogs. We appreciate your kind words!!
Kiaora e hoa, Ko Maria Whakapono Kawiti tenei, No Ruapekapeka, Waiomio, Kawakawa!!!
Good information and creative video🔥🔥
Thanks so much!!
Kia Ora! I'm so excited to come across your page! I am a primary kaiako, would it be okay for me to teach/share them with my students these stances or kao only from men?
Tēnā koe e hoa, mō taku hē (apologies) for the late response to your comment. Āe, of course you are more than welcome to share with your students both tāne and wāhine. We feel that if your mahi is done with good intent, then kei te pai. Please also explain this is from Caleb’s experience and teachings. It may differ for other rohe around the motu. Hope that answers your pātai. Ngā mihi, Jackie.
Thanks , Love it❤
Thanks so much!!
Tino ataahua ngamihi nui kia koe mauriora😛😎♥️
Hi there from Massachusetts, U.S. I've always been so enamored with the dance like steps of Mau Rakau (thank goodness I now know the name lol), how they can be so precise . My local area in the eastern woodlands of North America have a history of some really amazing traditions from iroquois affiliated tribes and other algonquian speaking folks, and their choice of club designs really illustrated where they fought. Being in thick old growth forests back then, weapons were intentionally short to keep up with the typical close quarters demands (would you believe there were actually little to no spear cultures here?). The reason I bring this up is because I'm wondering if New Zealand's environment inspired the different styles of Mau Rakau to incorporate certain movements like that traditional step (eg. there could be tall grass or ground cover and you want to stay clear of any unstable footing), kind of how the folks who used to live here where I live came up with certain ways to deal with conflict in their environment? Sounds a bit of a left field thought but I dunno it just cropped up in my head lol.
Tēnā koe e mara, mō taku hē (apologies) for the very late response to your comment. We really do appreciate your time and being able to share your whakaaro (thoughts). To answer your question, aē (yes) for tribes that lived more in land such as Tuhoe, they would (along with all other tribes) cater their fighting and weapon styles to their environment similarly to those tribes you speak about in the U.S. A traditional weapon / taonga such as a Taiaha would be made shorter as they would be fighting in areas with lots of bush and terrain.
Whereas if you were based on the coastal regions of Aotearoa, your weapons would be made longer to compensate for the distance where you would be fighting in more of an open terrain.
Definitely not a left-field thought and super relevant!!! Ngā mihi (thank you) again for taking the time to comment and follow our journey!
All you sell is just for 0-5 year olds
Thank you for sharing
No worries at all e hoa, thank you for your comment and tautoko!