“Our responsibility is to win the world sevens series.”

This is according to All Blacks 7s team captain DJ Forbes ahead of this weekend's Tokyo Sevens, the seventh round of the World Series.

Forbes said he thinks some other countries target certain tournaments, but for them the onus to win the Series is always the same.

He said a big key for them is consistency and a lot of that is down to their coach Gordon Tietjens and when they can get their Cup wins it is exciting, but the ultimate goal for them is to keep or extend their lead in the Series.

New Zealand sit top of the series standings on 113 points 25 points ahead of last week's champions Fiji in second place, and a further four ahead of Samoa who are third.

Meanwhile, Fiji will play South Africa at 1.44pm tomorrow in its first pool match of the Japan 7's.

Story by: Filipe Naikaso