Kapa Haka

Kia Ora Bloggers, for the past few weeks our Paihia School Kapa Haka Roopu have been practicing for the Kawakawa Cultural Festival. 

Our Roopu have been learning a new bracket and we also have been learning to use the rakau in the Haka and our Entrie. 

We have to practice being on time, make sure our volume is good, stay on key and most important of all is to focus and stay disciplined. We practice mainly every lunchtime, as part of our warm up we have been learning how to warm up our vocal cords. Sometimes we sing with the guitar and without. 

I enjoy doing kapa haka with my friends and I like the discipline because when we don’t listen to Matua Pep aka my dad he will make us either do press ups or go for a run then when we finish every body is tired and does want to listen to Matua Pep My Dad is a very good kapa haka teacher and I also like that he is may dad.