Kabaddi

Kabaddi is a sport that is from India. Kabaddi is kind of like wrestling.

There is seven people in a team four people hold each others arm together and one person of the other team has to get one person from the other team. The raider gotta chase after the person who tagged a person. A person gotta try hold them down before they cross the line. A person also have to hold them down when the thirty seconds is up.

When you run to get a person on the other team you have to run and say Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi without breathing. You also run back while saying Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi Kabaddi without breathing. Kabaddi was developed 4000 years ago kabaddi is played on a rectangular field.

This game is similar to capture the flag, rugby and wrestling. The countrys that play Kabaddi are Punjabi, Canada, England, New Zealand, USA, Pakistan and Australia. The instructions that you need is just cones and heaps of people.

Ki-O-Rahi

Ki-O-Rahi is a sport played in new zealand. It’s played when there is a little thing in the middle called a taniwha. A person holds a ball and a defender trying to defend the middle.

So the person isn’t gonna get a score with the ball. Each person also has tags hanging by the sides. If a person pulls of both of the tags then the ball is the other teams ball

But the hardest part is when people are playing and the coach blows the whistle and he talks he talks in Maori and nobody understand what he’s saying.

There is seven teams in the whole game when a player gets a score in the middle they have to jump with the ball and try to get the middle. The little ball is called a Ki. Everyone works as a team.

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Robin Williams full name is Robin McLaurin Williams he was born in July the 21st 1951. He was also in a lot of movies August the 11th 2014 he passed away by hanging himself in his bedroom he cut his wrist with a pocket knife. Robin Williams was born in St luke's hospital in Chicago.

One of my favorite movies that he acted on is Mrs Doubtfire. He has also got 3 children he passed away at the age of 63. He is also from the United States when he was 39 of age he made his first movie. Robin Williams was also an American actor. He hung himself because he was depressed. In the late 1970’s and early 1980 Robin Williams had a addiction to cocaine.

Kahurangi dance group

Yesterday at 11:30 after morning tea we went to the hall to watch the Kahurangi kapahaka dance group. When we went to the hall we sat down on the ground waiting for the kapahaka people to come out. Kia ora Aroha shouted to all of the seniors sitting on the floor in the hall. They had powerful voices and powerful slaps. The other guys name was Lucky. There piupiu swung from side to side.

All the children was cheering and when they said kiaora we shouted kiaora back. The girls names are Hera and Zoe, we were all laughing because it was funny. They were choosing 3 people to try use a taiaha. 3 people got chosen they went up in front of everybody so we could see what kind of stuff they were doing.  When they finished they went and sat back down.

The kapahaka people started to perform again, Zoe and Hera was using the pois they were good a few minutes later they grabbed out four pois and used them at the same time. They were good they were doing heaps of tricks with them.

They had these little sticks called titi torea, they showed them to us they were throwing the titi torea to the other person. They were good when they finished the performance it was time for us to go. They said bye to us and we shouted bye back.

Diver balance

Diving

Jumping

Falling

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Springboard

Acrobatics

Internationally

For a diver to be balanced they need to know what position they are going to be in. Especially their feet it has to be on the edge of the diving-board, when they are going to dive they have to be in a angle position that is pointing straight down.

Thats when they have to really concentrate and have a sharp focus. Then they jumped off the diving board when they are almost in between the pool and diving board thats when they put the arms together like a seal and get back up in the water without touching the bottom.

They do a lot of tricks when they are in the water but the difficult part about it is that they are not allowed to touch the bottom of the pool or else they will be disqualified in a competition. A diver should enter the water straight without any angle, their feet balanced against the diving board, and they focused and concentrated very well.

All of their movements were cool before entering the water as they landed in the water with a minimal splash, controlling their bodies while they jumped of the diving board also they were all balancing of the edge of the diving board.