{"id":1815,"date":"2019-03-27T21:39:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T04:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veloxrugby.org\/vv\/?page_id=1815"},"modified":"2019-03-28T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T23:44:58","slug":"velox-totem-pole","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/history\/velox-totem-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Westshore Velox RFC Totem Pole-Hapu Manu"},"content":{"rendered":"

The History of the\u00a0Westshore Velox RFC Totem Pole; by Jon Hume\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon Hume played from 1972 -1993, Team Captain from1979-1981.\u00a0 Coaching and Managing numerous teams over the last 20+ years.<\/p>\n

“The pole comes by way of the south pacific and his name Hapo Manu was\u00a0a worrier god the natives pray to , to protect them from injury when\u00a0they go into battle . Hapo Manu was carved and given to the club at\u00a0the grand opening by my brother Tim Hume. He spent some time in the\u00a0south pacific and brought the legend home and engrained it with west\u00a0coast first nation culture in the carving of the pole. It is believed\u00a0that striking Hapo Manu with an open palm before going onto the field\u00a0of battle his sprit will protect you from harm.\u00a0 The bottom character of\u00a0the pole is a bear and represents the forwards with the strength to\u00a0carry the whole team on his back the top figure is the fox and\u00a0represents the backs ears up, alert, agility, ready to attack the small\u00a0faces in-between the bear and fox represents the opposition and when\u00a0the forwards and backs come together they are crushed between the two.\u00a0 Tradition is the game ball is held in Hapo Manu’s feet, from which\u00a0the team\u00a0captain comes out the tunnel strikes Hapo Manu with his open palm\u00a0and retrieves the match ball from his feet followed by the team, who\u00a0all in\u00a0turn ask Hapo Manu with their open palm to protect them in their\u00a0upcoming battle.”<\/p>\n

The club started with the original Velox family- The Hume family, as the totem used to sit on what was once Hume family land at the old location at Gordon Head Rd.\u00a0 It has made the transition to Westshore when the club moved in 2015 and was re-mounted outside of our home teams changing room.\u00a0 And so the tradition continues, all players are reminded before every game in the huddle to slap Hapu Manu for good luck upon running out of the changing room onto the field for battle…<\/p>\n

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Hapu Manu in original position at Velox on Gordon Head Rd, corner of clubhouse<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hapu Manu in original position at Velox on Gordon Head Rd, Over seeing the pitch.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hapu Manu new location in Westshore.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hapu Manu in new location, Over seeing the pitch.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The History of the\u00a0Westshore Velox RFC Totem Pole; by Jon Hume\u00a0 Jon Hume played from 1972 -1993, Team Captain from1979-1981.\u00a0 Coaching and Managing numerous teams over the last 20+ years. “The pole comes by way of the south pacific and his name Hapo Manu was\u00a0a worrier god the natives pray to , to protect them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":2061,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6637,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1815\/revisions\/6637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westshorerfc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}