Afleveringen
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Your wild capoeira stores here.
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A look back on 2023 and a look ahead to 2024. Did we make good on our past resolutions? What's in store for the coming year?
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We got weird shirts, unicorn mugs, awkward sayings, and the perfect gift for alienating a teen girl from her dad. Plus our unanimous best and worst capoeira-themed gifts of this year.
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Prompted by a listener's email, we discuss emergency protocols when someone takes a meia lua to the noggin.
Azul's interview on The Life Capoeira podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zw2dYywGNetOcXSaC8t8c
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Join us as we muddle our way through whether we, as capoeiristas, have an obligation to be political activists. That's right, we're talking about Israel and Palestine, and we're just as lost, confused, and upset as you.
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A (not so) spooky Halloween episode where we talk about what it takes to make a good Haunted Roda.
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How can we best prepare ourselves for the violence in capoeira? How do we control our emotions instead of losing our cool?
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Etiquette in capoeira is like gravity - you can't see it but it rules everything.
Use three berimbaus. Don't cross the instruments when you volta ao mundo. When you volta, make a completed circle. Wait to play by crouching down. Wait to play by standing up. Don't buy the game during a chorus. Only the buy the game during a chorus, never a verse.
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Video here https://youtube.com/watch?v=GPqN4xTgJL4&feature=share9
We battle about whether two capoeiristas who are way better than any of us are actually any good. Bonzinho says yes, Azul says maybe, and Varal says no because he can only speak from a place of deep envy.
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Our recap of a very special batizado.
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Good friend of the podcast Fome joins us to talk about returning to capoeira after a decade away. He tells us that it's hard, it's ridiculous, it smells bad, and it's wonderful to be back.
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A mailbag episode. We talk about some great emails we got recently, especially one from a listener who's decided not to host batizados anymore. Bonus - a meal that would save you after 3 months in the Sahara.
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Today we don our mining helmets, switch on our headlamps, and dig through the book Capoeira and Candomblé: Conformity and Resistance through Afro-Brazilian Experience by Floyd Merrell. There's some great stuff in here about the similarities between the two Afro-Brazilian philosophies and their history, but it does take some backbreaking labor to get it out. You can read the book here, but we'd advise listening to this episode first.
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The big one fifty! Some nice informal capoeira talk to fill out what we think are the best practices for capoeira. What side should your cord go on? What's the best dish at a churrasca? When training, should you go man bun or long hair don't care? Tuck your shirt or let it fly loose?
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Azul has some important revelations about hand strikes in capoeira, which brings us to a nice discussion contrasting old school and new school types of capoeira. We got stuff for you on motivation, energy, rule-following, loyalty, special snowflakes, and boogers.
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Video of Alex and Cobra Mansa Here
How to Watch a Roda. A famous mestre who happens to be very old plays a less-famous Insta star who happens to be pretty young, and it is a delight to watch. There's a lot to dig into -- the stages of evolution of the game, the give and take, the theater, and Cobra Mansa's total command of capoeira.
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Bonzinho fed a couple capoeira-related prompts into ChatGPT and got some interesting things back. We go through some "common complaints about capoeira" as defined by the AI to see if they're legit.
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Azul and Bonzinho hosted Mestre Silvinho for a workshop and they fill us in on how it went. And Bonzinho has been doing a lot of flipping and thinking, which thoughts he wants to share. Azul and Varal respond with a nice chorus of "I told you so."
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A guide to which acrobatics are worth your time to try and learn. Some moves look great but they take way too much work to achieve. And some moves can be pretty easy, but they're undignified. Where's the sweet spot between the work required and the result? Hint: steer clear of armada dupla.
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When did you start to find your groove in capoeira? How do you keep your wrists healthy? What are the best ways to develop vision in your game? The internet asked and, unsolicited, we answered.
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