May 02, 2022
Haka terror for Kronfield
Former All Black great Josh Kronfield says his biggest fear in his first years in the team was doing the haka.
He told Radio Waatea’s sports show host, Ray Bishop, he didn’t watch rugby growing up, and his own Hastings Boy’s High School only had a haka written for it in his final year there.
When he made his debut against Canada in 1995 he was not only carrying an injury but he’s only been shown the haka the night before.
“When you’re meant to be thinking about rugby, all I was thinking about was not stuffing up the haka. For the first maybe year or two years, that as my biggest worry, not doing the haka right,” he says.
Josh Kronfield says it wasn’t until the All Blacks brought in Inia Maxwell to teach the team the meaning of the haka and how to do it right that his fear went away.