> would have gone to see her but clashed with the rugby, gotta get your priorities right
Here in Auckland, moving pianos is one of the ways Samoan Lads train for The Rugby. The legendary Peter Fatialofa has a piano moving company, and they are considered the best in the business. We have used his team a few times now: four moves in fourteen years and not one scratch on the grand piano.
‘Tis poetry in motion to watch them go at it.
When I lived in California, a friend of mine enjoyed martial arts competition. He was very skilled, often fighting well above his weight class. He said that the times when he saw that his competition was a Samoan fighter, he knew he was in trouble. He claimed that besides being built like grizzlies, they seemed to be impervious to pain.