VIDEO: The history of the Tongan war dance, the Sipi Tau

Everyone knows about the famous New Zealand war dance, the Haka, but what about the Tongan Sipi Tau?

The Tongan team see the Sipi Tau as way to inspire young Tongan people around the world and change the perception of how the outside world sees Tonga.

Winger Siale Piutua explains that the war dance starts off with telling the world that God and Tonga is their inheritance, the motto Tonga was founded on.

Piutua talks about the emotions the war dance has and how it is a way of letting the opposition know that they are going to lay down their lives out on the pitch.