Birthday Roda on Flickr.
Happy Capoeiristas Cinco
Contra Mestre Malandro, Mandinga de Escravos, Olha O Nego 2012
Malandro celebrates his birthday with some of his best buddies in capoeira, who also happen to be some of the best capoeiristas in the US (IMHO). If you check out the entire set, there were a lot of great moments with fancy movements. This photo, however, shows a happy guy, celebrating his birthday doing what he loves best.
2011 Capoeira Mandinga Batizado on Flickr.
Happy Capoeristas Quatro
Professor Recruta, United Capoeira Association Berkeley, Capoeira Mandinga 2011 Batizado
2011 EBC Phils Batizado Day 4 on Flickr.
Happy Capoeiristas Tres
Mestre Ousado, Capoeira Argola de Ouro Singapore, Escola Brasileira Capoeira Philippines 2011 Pre-Batizado Roda
Everytime I look at this photo, it cracks me up.
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2012 Sarau na Mandinga on Flickr.
Happy Capoeiristas Dois
Algodão, Sarãu na Mandinga 2012
When this photo was taken, she was about 9 weeks pregnant (I think). She’s been taking it easy but during this show, she did an au sem mao (cartwheel with no hands).
Again, notice the smiling faces in the background.
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—Jonathan Coulton, talking to John Scalzi. (via neil-gaiman)
(Source: tor.com, via neil-gaiman)
2012 UCA Roda-thon on Flickr.
Happy Capoeirista Um, Metralha (in blue shirt) and Formiguinha (in what I believe are Spidey undies)
Notice the smiling faces in the background, too.
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If you’ve seen capoeira, you know that is fascinating. As a first time viewer, the flips probably catch your eye. If you’ve trained it for a while, you notice the trickiness, the malandragem, the strategy. If you’re teaching it, it gives you joy to see the improvement of your students.
However, beneath all these, capoeira is fun to watch because the people playing it are HAPPY playing it. Sure you see people getting kicked, getting a black eye or bruised shin, or being taken down, but more often than not, a capoeirista takes all these with a smile.
For the next few posts, I will have photos that show the happiness that is ingrained in this art form. No fancy moves. Just happy capoeiristas.
These pictures remind me why I keep training this art. That even when I get lazy periods, I manage to get back into the roda.
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… you are capable of.
… you can stretch yourself.
… you can learn - about yourself, someone else, or life, and that learning is a never ending process.
… you are loved.
… you can love.
Even when sometimes it feels too much, at the end of the day…
… after all the frustrations have been vented
… after all the tears have been shed
… after all the sighs have been sighed
… and after the truth has been sieved through all the words that have been said
there is a reason to smile.
View from the Powell BART station stairs, San Francisco, CA 2010
For hi-res view, click here.
Thousand-Calorie-Bombs
It’s not really its name, but that’s what my friend Kage Gozun (who took this photo) calls it.
