Capoeira madness!!
Hey people! Uni for me has started again and I gotta seriously kick myself into study mode...ugh!
Well, yesterday I did a capoeira performance in uni with the Bond Uni capoeira society. Also present were a few people from the Zambiacongo team: Mestre Luizinho, Instructor Adam and Formado James. It was heaps of fun and from the compliments we received from the crowd after the show, and the number of sign-ups, the classes may get much bigger this semester :) *Happiness* I actually caught a video of the performance using my camera, but its 140MB...apparently Youtube can only hold up to 100MB. Sigh...Neway, here are a few pics, although the video shows us pulling off some pretty crazy moves...
That's me, Ash, and Rungano...Ash and Rungano are med students that just started doing capoeira :)
Me vs Instructor Adam
Yasmin vs Anna (Yasmin is also a med student, and has been doing capoeira for about 2 years)
Formado James vs Anna (James teaches the capoeira classes at Bond Uni...his acrobatics is pretty good)
Anyway, recently whilst I was back in Sydney, I had a chance to catch up with the Usyd capoeira club, and boy, have they improved!!
The class, with Instructora Gaivota trying to strangle me!
Tony and Dave (a.k.a Gung Fu -the angmoh that is more asian than most asians). If u can't figure out what's happening, well, they are hanging horizontally just using their arms! Insane rite?!?
Sarah doing a version of queda de rins (standing on kidneys)
Andrew Meyes (a.k.a. Envergado) doing mortal (back sommersault)
Gung Fu again!
And that's moi (a.k.a. curumim)!
And whilst I was in GC, this happened!! 0_0 That's winnie and Gung Fu...I've known them both for years!! but I'm so happy for them :)
Hey Hey!! wah! u're seriously into capoeira man!! gd on ya!
so nice, have pics to see! looks like u're the master at it already :) and ur friends, this happened = they got tgh? haha
Posted by: YueLi | September 17, 2006 05:56 AM
ive always liked watching ppl doing capoerira and.. to actually know someone who knows how to do it ... its so cool! u look great drew... :) one day must show me k?? :)
p/s the horizontal 'hanging' is just crazy! *in awe*
Posted by: Angeline | September 25, 2006 06:13 AM
keke...thanks for commenting!
To ashley: yea, i do love capoeira. and no la...im no where near master level. not yet... ;) keke...
To angeline: you've seen capoeira done in real life? yes...i'll show off when i see u next. for sure! :)
Posted by: Andrew | October 13, 2006 08:04 PM