Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I reckon it was like a jolt of lightning down your body. Yeah, and I knew straight away it was no good. I was looking up and I can't move. Yeah, it was pretty scary not being able to feel anything.
The doctor said post that surgery you probably won't walk again.
Yeah, he said I'll probably have to rely on others to live life. Yeah, I was just one of the unlucky ones. I don't know, for some reason I thought everything was okay. I was just near myself that everything was going to be sweet.
How long were you in a wheelchair for?
I was a good two and a bit.
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Chapter 2: What was the moment that changed Seti Tafua's life forever?
Two and a bit, yes.
When we got that first little movement in the leg, it was a pretty cool feeling. Just went from there, bro. I just wanted more. Stay positive too, as hard as it is. Life doesn't stop after a massive injury like that. Things can always be worse. You just got to instill that into your mind.
Chapter 3: How did Seti respond to the doctors' grim prognosis?
Well, lad, well, today I'm joined by an inspiring unsung legend of our game. What started as a promising rugby career was quickly turned upside down after horrific neck injury, where doctors have said he was lucky to be alive. He was then diagnosed as a paraplegic, needing a miracle to have any movement from his waist below.
However, with sheer determination and that miracle, he is now walking again and not just getting by, but he is thriving in his new career in the game he still loves as a key member of the Hurricanes analysis team for the past decade. He's the most positive man that you could ever meet, no matter what the situation. It is, of course, the massive lad himself, great Seti Tauwhua. Welcome, brother.
The intro again. The intro.
The intro. I love the intro.
Big fan of the intros. Oh, well, it's a pleasure to do an intro for you because like I said in the intro, you are probably the most positive man I've ever met. No matter the situation, always glass half full, never heard you complain. Have you always been like that?
yes as I have but I think I'm fortunate that I was brought up that way and I think mum and dad instilled that in me and yeah just make most of whatever situation I'm put in and I think I'm just always grateful brother yeah that's why you get a step positive man yeah I think I've been fortunate to be brought up that way
How did it sort of come to that?
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Chapter 4: What was Seti's experience like during his rehabilitation?
Because one thing I'd love to teach my kids is to be more grateful for things that they get. How did your parents teach you? What was your upbringing like?
My mum and dad were fortunate that my mum and dad came over from Samoa and they'd come over and try and give us the best here. But we didn't have
like heaps growing up you know like we made most most like you know made the most of everything we got and mum and dad gave us heaps especially mum um and like you know it wasn't like the best stuff but you know yeah at the time yeah um and I think that that helps big time you know that helped big time growing up um what else I guess like
Yeah, I think that's probably what it goes down to, is just growing up with not much.
Yeah.
Did you have siblings? Yes, one and one, so one brother, a younger brother, and an older sister. Oh, yeah. And, yeah, they helped that too as well. Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What mindset helped Seti stay positive during recovery?
Keep it positive, because they're a lot of different. One can get, they just tell it as it is, but I always try and say, oh, guys, we're good. Yeah. They're, um, yeah, they're, they're, they're a bit more, uh, ruthless.
And your sport, like, um, you're obviously a bit of a gun on the footy field growing up. Was it just footy or was it all sports?
uh i think like back at school you know you always try everything so scott's college hey you and victor running a mac i was the other guy but yeah bro we did all the sports there like as much as he could like athletics um what else uh I only like just tried anything and everything. When you're young, and especially at squats, they're just like, oh, you get this, you get this. You're like, okay.
And now, I was young and a lot of these sports I didn't know existed. I didn't go to squats straight away. I went there from like, I think I was nine or ten. Oh yeah. Yeah, going from private school when you're young. But yeah, I tried all sports and I liked just rugby because it's number one in NZ. I just stayed at it.
And because family members will play, like dad and my uncles, and they made sure that we stayed in the game. Yeah.
Yeah. How did you get into Scots College? You obviously mentioned you didn't have a lot of money, but it's a private school, not an easy one to get into.
We were lucky, man. Like, at the time, there was this thing called the TIE scheme. It was like a scholarship. It was a government-funded one. Oh, yeah? And Victor was on it. And then I think my mum, because our mothers knew each other. They were early childhood friends. Oh, yeah. Teachers? Yeah. So they worked at preschools together. And so mum asked her, oh, how did you get them in there?
So like, yeah, so I think she applied. And I think you can only do one kid, so it was just me. My brother and my sister. Yeah, so she did that.
Did you have to be good at sport or anything?
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Chapter 6: What role did the rugby community play in Seti's recovery?
I haven't been back there in a while, but I've heard they've got girls now, man.
Chapter 7: How did Seti's injury impact his family and friends?
Oh, do they? Yeah, a lot of change, a lot of change. And they're way better at sports than me. I didn't go because of sports, but we went and they made sure that you're doing your schoolwork.
Yeah. It was cool. And your pathway out of school? Like, what was your plan when you left Scott?
And I was lucky at Scott's. Like, I wasn't too sure what I was up to. And so they were just like, oh, why don't you just go overseas and have a cappy? And so, like, there were these cool opportunities that I probably wouldn't have got anywhere else. So they sent me to a school called Robert Gordon's in Scotland.
Oh yeah.
It was cool, man. But it was for a year. And because our school year is different. So I went in our year, our school year.
Yeah.
For them, it was the second half of the school year. Oh, true. And then they had the big break in the summer. Yeah. So I caught that. I was freezing, man. I was cold. It was in Aberdeen in Scotland. I was freezing. I remember getting there and I wanted to get myself into it. But it was awesome. Loved the place. People friendly. They put us up in this flat right in town.
And our day consisted of going there to the school. And the kids just, in the afternoon, they do rugby or any sport. And our Like what we did was we just went up to the fields in the afternoons and just coached kids for the afternoon. And I was like, I think I was 17 at the time. And I was like, cool, man, this is awesome. And that was fun, man.
For the year, but obviously in the summer when there's no footy, we did the athletics. And sometimes they'd chuck us into the random classroom to relieve. I hate it. It's interesting. 17 and you're like reading this role now yeah bro that was awesome I loved it I loved my time up there and that they gave me some time to think yeah to do later on and then um I came back and I still wasn't sure.
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Chapter 8: How did Seti transition from player to Hurricanes Analyst?
And he just goes to me, bro, I liked it.
there's this competition over at Oz to shoot a shield it's like the NPC you should go give it a go man give it a crack you know like it's a dream yeah but nah it didn't sound like like it was awesome man I was just like at the time when we first discussed I was like hey sweet but then it wasn't until like later on then we started talking about it serious and I was like hey maybe it's pretty cool go over give it a crack was it paid?
Well, I didn't know it was going to be paid. Yeah. But, yeah, they paid you, like, came. Oh, true. Yeah. Um, and they sorted your comma.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, like, I. Oh, so you head made it. No.
Wait. I got to, um. I got to Oz and there were three clubs that I could choose. Oh, yeah. I'm not choose, but like three clubs that he'd be like, he was like, three clubs are interested. And then I was just like, oh, hey, cool. And I think that I chose Norse. Oh, no, I did. The only reason I chose Norse was because they were red and black, like Poneke. I did my research on the other clubs.
I didn't know what the others would offer. But I was happy that I chose Norse, man. Great club, great people. Just like Poneke, another family club.
Yeah, same colours. Same colours. Makes it easy.
Yeah, bro. That's what's funny. I always tell people that and they're just like, of course you did.
Yeah.
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