About 20 youth rugby players attended the Haka Rugby Global Elite Camp, Thursday and Friday at the Vermillion Park Kin Field.

New Zealander Regan Sue, was the instructor along with Caleb Stick, who is also from New Zealand now living in Winnipeg.

Sue said they host up to 80 camps a year in 50 countries around the world.

“The difference between our camps and other camps is we also hav a real strong cultural content to it,” he said. “So we share our multiculture, as well as teaching rugby.”

Athletes are taught one of the 450 hakas in New Zealand. A haka is a ceremonial Māori war dance or challenge made famous by the All Blacks, New Zealand’s national rugby union team.

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