As we moved closer to the our regional competition and we'd had six months of fitness sessions Corey organised for the kapa to do a session at Les Mills. We had a great turn-out with most of the kapa turning up to do the session. We ended up all doing a bike session with Kiringāua, Arwen and Cherie doing a different group session. Afterwards some of the kapa had a go on some of the machines, but all in all it was a really enjoyable morning and a great way to round up our fitness work prior to the regionals.
Here is a brief breakdown of the fitness work that we had completed during the year.
HIIT Training
Building on previous years and with more experience in running fitness programmes we stepped up our fitness sessions. We wanted to gauge the current level of fitness of our participants as well as set personal goals for improving those. Our baseline test consisted of:
1. The beep test, which we did over 18m rather than 20m because of the amount of people and the space we had. 18m was the maximum distance we were able to manage.
2. As many sit-ups as you can do in 1 minute
3. As many push ups as you can do in 1 minute
4. As many burpees as you can do in 2 minutes
We tallied their scores from each test to get an overall score. Most people pushed themselves to their limit with some impressive scores in the beep test (12.1) and push ups (56), both of which ended up being the highest in each of those disciplines across both the testing days.
It is not as easy to show that the improvements were shared across the whole cohort. But when we look at the top over all scores from both testing days we see that at the top level from day one, 142.1 for the boys and 127.1 for the girls and the top scores for final testing day, 165.3 for boys and 140.5 for girls shows that there has been significant movement of 23.2 and 13.4 respectively. But the figures that show the real movement are at the other end. The bottom scores of 34.6 from day one, totally eclipsed by 59.3 on final day, a difference of 24.7. This shows that the whole cohort has improved their level of fitness.
Māori Movement
Tūmai Cassidy is certified as a Level 2 Māori Movement trainer. Monique and Abby have both been through the Māori Movement training. We use this form of movement to teach coordination, timing, and movement as one in a group. It is an important aspect of all the work we do and helps to lay the physical foundation for movement in the group.
Mau Rākau, Mau Patu
We were fortunate this year to have Kiliona (Pou 5) and Waiariki (Pou 3) take mau rākau sessions. These sessions alongside the choreography that Kiliona, Tūmai, Abby and Monique put together, and their increased fitness levels and coordination helped immensely with the group’s confidence in performance.
Physical fitness, knowledge and use of rākau and patu are key to performing at the highest level. This is a 30 minute very physical programme that incorporates haka, waiata, rākau, patu and poi into an intricately choreographed programme that highlights different types of waiata and Māori Movement all on a foundation of traditional stories. Knowing the stories and understanding the waiata and haka is also important in order to perform them to the best of their ability. We were fortunate enough to be named the top kapa in the region, qualifying again for the National competition.
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