Polynesian traditional sports

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Innterview Enoch Laughlin
Traditional Sports, fingers « tuaro maohi », were practiced to’yesteryear only during heiva, during Tiurai, and since 126 years, since the Tiurai are, These sports are part of the festivities. This year, we started the heiva tuaro maohi a regatta canoes sailing, held at the Pointe Venus Mahina (Tahiti), and I think it took place in a beautiful setting with good wind and nice pictures, and also the beautiful races that gave excellent performances and I think canoe Sailing has a bright future. The Museum of Tahiti and the Islands, it was the javelin.

The principle was, for these athletes, the number of 80, to reach a coconut that was located 9 meters ; and according to the sting of the javelin, were assigned points. You should know that the nut is divided into several sectors, and there are areas that more points than others. As part of the museum is really ideal I think for the javelin. We also had the sunrises stone, practice comes from the Southern. The principle was thus removed as quickly as a stone ; The stopwatch starts when the stone left the ground, and stopped when the stone was stabilized on the shoulder of the athlete.
And so the athletes were classified according to the best time.

At the climb coconut, it is a discipline that really wants to give current since it is in practice Peaceful, by many South Pacific countries and our goal is to, at one time or another, to meet these athletes in the South Pacific. It has also planned husking coconut, discipline was practiced as of yesterday and we wanted to update because it is spectacular. Each athlete had a number of coconuts clogs, the principle of this test was to remove the coconut husk and the clock once again the best were classified according to the time that they were to remove the coconut husk.

Then, there was activity copra. The principle is to break the coconut with an ax and two to remove the nut and the ranking was determined by the team or individual the fastest to remove the coconut pulp, to pick up everything that came in its environment and put it in bags. Races carrying fruits, it is a burden that goes 15 kg for vahine, de 20 kg for young people 16 to 19 years, and it was the category « Sanctuary » » which is a category for men and women but in general it was that men, de 30 kg, and finally we have a load of Altothe50 kg.kg
At the start of the race, we take the weight of loads, and arrival,the weight of the loads are weighed again and depending on the loss, penalties are given.

On the whole, « heiva tuaro maohi « , 2008 went very well as there was a very large attendance of the public who came to support and enjoy the traditional sports. I think what is important is to live the traditional sports, live this culture, and that through it all we can express the joy of living, the joy of meeting, through these activities that are traditional activities that come of the past and we want to re live very long.

Type : Series of mini documentary Theme : Polynesian history and traditions Title : Polynesian history and traditions Synopsis : since the 80, la culture ancestrale polynésienne, violated the arrival of the first Europeans and Christianity, seems to be reborn. « Polynesian history and tradition» is a series made on the basis of interviews with anthropologists, historians, Archaeologists, botanists, recognized. The magazine recounts all the important events of history and culture of French Polynesia. Duration unit : 5 minutes Episodes: 10 Language : French Formats : 4/3 and 16 9th

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