I finally got the capoeira pictures up. Some were from our last day training in the academy, some were from the last roda, and some were from a roda we had in San Jose. All good stuff. The last roda was very cool because everyone came out. It makes it feel like a family reunion. Looking over the pictures, however, it's becoming more obvious to me that I need a new camera. These were taken with my point and shoot, pocket camera, which is fine for most stuff, but can't do fast action in low light. That said, fast action in low light isn't a good shooting condition for any camera, but I'm sure I can find better. I'll have to do some research in the coming months and see what I want. Really, I wanted to avoid having to carry a big bulky camera around places, but I guess in some instances I'll just have to deal.
As an aside, we did a workshop with Silencio of Capoeira Mandinga on Saturday. It was freaking crazy. There was a good sized class for it, and he had us all pretty much feeling like total capoeira noobs. Mandinga has a different style from us, and Silencio in particular uses a ton of bridges and back bends. Every time he started a sequence and I'm thinking "hey, I can do that," he would throw a bridge in just for fun. Soooo.... hard.... but in a good way. Check out a video of the capoeira mandinga guys having a roda. Silencio is the short dark haired guy. Pretty bad ass, no?
Oh, bonus! I learned how to drive stick this weekend. I was helping a friend put a new intake into his speed3. Afterwards I asked him to show me how to drize stick. So, honestly, I stalled the car a few time, mainly when I was on an incline rolling back, but overall, I got the hang of it. *sigh* I want a manual car to drive. Maybe I'll just have to settle for buying a gixer. We'll see how that goes, ne?
