How to play the amazing game called Ki o rahi?

How to play an amazing game called Ki o Rahi?

Hello! the last week, we've been playing the real game of Ki o Rahi. My post last week was about the game Ki o Rahi as well but it was just kinda "Like" the game.

But today I'll be Explaining how to play the real game. But before we start, Ki o Rahi is a traditional game of Maori. So there are some Maori vocabulary words of what we call those things.

What you'll need:

- 7 Pou's (Poles)

- 1 Tupu (Centre target bin)

- 1 Ki (A ball called Ki) 

-Field markings

-14 people to play (7 People each team)

Rules:

There are two teams that are gonna be playing. Each team have a main Job to do. One team has to be either Kioma or Taniwha.

Kioma - What Kioma does is they collect points by touching the Ki (The ball) to the Pou's (Poles).  They can touch Pou's as many they want. They can redeem the points by touching the Pawero (The white part) of the field.

 But at the same time, they have to avoid to get touch by the other teams. If the other team touch you, you can still carry on but when they touch you like 3 times with different people, It's a hand over that means the other teams get the Ki (The ball). 

The Kioma has also at least 2 Kaitiaki players inside to protect the Tupu (The centre target bin) from the other teams of getting score by hitting the Tupu. If the 2 Kaitiaki want to get out of the Te Wairua (Which is the place where they are on before) well they can, They just have to go to Te Ara (The path where they can go in and out).

Taniwha - What Taniwha does is that they get points by hitting the Ki to the Tupu, But they also need to look out from Kioma players because they might get touched and the same thing as Kioma when the Taniwha players get touched by the Kioma players 3 times in different people then they need to hand the ball.

 But when they touch the player but the player already passed it to somebody in their team then that doesn't count. The Taniwha players can stand at Te Roto to hit the Ki to the Tupu. But they need to remember that the 2 Kaitiaki players can touch them if they are too close.

Te Ao - It's what you call it the place surrounds the 7 Pou's.

Here's what the field looks like:
The Ki o Rahi game has a unique circular field.

Here's a clip of when we played it in the great field:

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I hope you now know how to play the cool Ki o Rahi game now.

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