I’ve been enjoying playing capoeira recently. I’m looking forward to the autumn Cordao de Ouro event in Nottingham this weekend. Hopefully, I’ll get some good pictures. In the meantime, check out this video from one of our regular training classes.
Edit: Molly said that I should mention that I’m in the video about half-way through.
We spent last weekend camping at a festival near Ashbourne, just into the southern end of the Peak District. Although it has dried up significantly from the previous weeks flooding, it had been raining fairly regularly last week and the festival was inundated with mud. Someone commented that you can tell how good a festival [...]
Capoeira can be described as a conversation or a dialogue between two people, asking questions and giving answers. Most of the time, like a good conversation, it flows back and forth in a complimentary way, but there is another important aspect known as malicia. Players often try to trick and outwit each other, [...]
I’ve spent much of the last weekend playing capoeira at the Cordao De Ouro batizado in Nottingham. It was a great experience; it was inspiring to watch the Mestres play and it was great to get a chance to play with so many new people.
The event started on Friday night, continued most of [...]
I got a berimbau at capoeira this week. The berimbau is a wooden bow, about 4 to 5 feet long, tightly strung with a steel string, which is traditionally pulled from the inside of an automobile tire. A dried, hollow, gourd is attached to the lower portion of the bow acting as a [...]
I found some videos of my capoeira instructor, Mascote, on youtube. He’s quite talented! I’ve really been enjoying capoeira recently. It’s a great combination of fun and challenge. I’ve been asking my body to do all sorts of things that I might suspect would be impossible.
We went to an open capoeira class last night. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and hope to go back again sometime. The kids and Molly thought it was alright, I think. I’m not sure I’ll be able to convince them to switch from Tae Kwon Do, though. If you’re not sure what [...]
