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Welcome ABoselli, maybe your definition of 'obscure' is different from what I know it to be, we both speak english but perhaps one of us does so with 'forked tongue'or to be kinder with warped perspectives?
This is an extract from a German site, are they more up with sports and their relationships with the society they inhabit? Do they perhaps care about what happens outside their borders? You will need to get this translated and you will then garnish a little better other world perspectives on our 'insignificant' part of the world:
"Der Poi-Dance hat eine lange und interessante Entwicklungsgeschichte. Der eigentliche Ursprung dieses Tanzes liegt in Neuseeland. Vor Jahrhunderten benutzten dort die Ureinwohner (die Maoris) eine Konstruktion, um große Moa-Eier zu transportieren...Steinen gefüllt und an einer bis zu 6 Meter langen Schnur befestigt...um Flexibilität, Koordination, Reaktionsfähigkeit und Schnelligkeit zu trainieren. Dieses Training wurde Poi-Toa genannt.
Der nächste Schritt in der Entwicklung war der, daß hieraus ein Spiel entstand, das Ki-o-rahi."
Other nations have made the connections quite openly and appreciably, we are after all a global community?
And lets keep the focus on at least the philosophy of sport as I'm sure your fellow countrypeople would appreciate, regards once again Taha Maori.
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