I finally set foot in my own home today at 2AM (thanks American Airlines and O'Hare Airport, YOU SUCK!) The last leg of this trip was pretty amazing. It was at Livre Como Vento's event in Champagne, IL. If it wasn't for this event, I probably would never have went there. Driving from Chicago is just corn field after corn field. But who would have thought that there would be a GREAT capoeira school there??? The event was amazing. I personally found my capoeira groove back. It did take 12 hours of capoeira for 3 days and playing Mestre Cabello and Tizsa to get it back. If seeing and taking Mestre Cabello's workshop doesn't put the groove into your game, you are doing it wrong.
It taught me a lot about capoeira angola...the transition hasn't been the smoothest. Mestre Marrom brought up a really good point: You cannot play capoeira with tunnel vision. You cannot go into the roda hoping to accomplish a sequence or perform one move. You have to make the moves make sense and respond appropriately. I've been stuck in this weird funk where my games have been really choppy and unnecessarily aggressive. But I think this event really solved a lot of that. Capoeira is about conversation and if you're not having fun with it, you're doing it wrong.
I also realized that a person's personality really shows up in the roda. You really can't hide anything while playing. One person, who in real life would not stop talking and complaining, all day all long, did the same thing in capoeira. He would just kick and kick and kick. He waited for you to finish kicking, so he could kick again. I will admit that I'm really pensive when I first meet a person and it will take time for me to warm up to you. My games tend to be crappy for the first 30 seconds, then, I hope, it gets better.
I have to say I'm really glad I get a week at home, because if I had to travel this week....I would have killed someone.
Now, time to make feijoada.
It taught me a lot about capoeira angola...the transition hasn't been the smoothest. Mestre Marrom brought up a really good point: You cannot play capoeira with tunnel vision. You cannot go into the roda hoping to accomplish a sequence or perform one move. You have to make the moves make sense and respond appropriately. I've been stuck in this weird funk where my games have been really choppy and unnecessarily aggressive. But I think this event really solved a lot of that. Capoeira is about conversation and if you're not having fun with it, you're doing it wrong.
I also realized that a person's personality really shows up in the roda. You really can't hide anything while playing. One person, who in real life would not stop talking and complaining, all day all long, did the same thing in capoeira. He would just kick and kick and kick. He waited for you to finish kicking, so he could kick again. I will admit that I'm really pensive when I first meet a person and it will take time for me to warm up to you. My games tend to be crappy for the first 30 seconds, then, I hope, it gets better.
I have to say I'm really glad I get a week at home, because if I had to travel this week....I would have killed someone.
Now, time to make feijoada.
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