Rugby teams doing traditional war dances at one another is very intense

Most people who have participated in sports have used or experienced some form of pre-game ritual. For me, it was eating orange slices before Little League.

For these two professional rugby teams, however, pre-game rituals work a bit differently.

This clip shows the two teams, New Zealand’s All Blacks and Manu Samoa, performing their traditional pre-match war dances, known as the Manu Siva Tau (Samoa) and the Haka (New Zealand). After the historic match — New Zealand’s first on the Pacific Island nation — the teams got together for a happy picture.

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