You know you're a capoeirista when...

[lucklesspenny]

So, this is from a conversation I had with a friend a couple of weeks ago...I'd like to see what you all have to add to it.  Just complete the sentence, "You know you're a capoeirista if..."

-You have road rage fantasies that end with a well timed martelo or bensao...(no, really...)
-You not only sing capoeira songs, but you also practice your ginga...in the shower.
-You've ever thrown kicks over the chairs at your work.
-Someone asks you what you want for your birthday, and 4 of the 5 things that come to mind are capoeira related in some way.
-Every time you open your mouth to speak your friends ask "is this going to be another Capoeira thing?"
-Instead of taking notes in class, you are drawing little figures doing aus and meia lua de compassos
-You walk around bare-foot to "Toughen up your feet"
-You find yourself doing the ginga while playing with the neighbor's dog
-You start every sentence with "this one time... at capoeira..."
-Try to study and all i can think about is how i could've maneuvered better in the roda the night (or few hours) before......
-Your best friends start sounding like your girlfriend or boyfriend cause you don't spend much time with them anymore
-You desperately try to explain to your non-capoeira-playing friends that berimbau music is great
-YOU CAN'T STOP THE CAPOEIRA MUSIC IN YOUR HEAD!!!
-When you walk around in a weird limp from the skin that tore off your foot the night before, and you 're used to it...

I just want to see what you all have to add...

[ravin66]

lol soo it seems that i just noticed i'm dangerously obsess with capoeira... E.G. practicing 6 hours a week at the studio plus some unknown hours at home, lets just say 8. (14 hours a week...)...

you know you're a capoeira when you/I...

-i'm hurting myself everyday trying new moves
-waiting in the cafe by the studio every day at 3 pm everyday... (lmao!)
-asking galego almost everyday about the intermediate class lmao!
-taking yoga classes
-eating candy to stay awake just to do a queda de rins
- trying to learn how to play the berimbau off of youtube and by watching brett play
- can't sleep without doing a push up....
-when you can't sleep you decide to do some mea lua de campasso! (sp?) (i actually suffer from sleep deprivation, i can't sleep the normally recommend amount of hours..)
- doing head spins at work

wow.... theres more of my list of symptoms can go on for miles!

[CM Galego]

How about:
-every time you get a little bit ahead you blow it all on a trip to Brazil
-can't sleep at night because too busy plotting all the cool moves you're gonna do in the roda (this used to happen to me alot but not any more)
-get a massive surge of adrenaline just sitting and thinking about the masterfull takedown you're gonna use to get back at so-and-so who took you down (still happens to me alot)
-can't remember the last time 5 whole days went by without doing capoeira
-lost touch with almost all friends who don't do capoeira (beware of your future young capoeiristas!)

[Zangado]

how do you manage headspins at work? your all behind the counter and customers are giving their orders to spinning feet and stuff..

quit practicing so much, your making us other calouros look bad.

-james

[ravin66]

-when you should be finishing work for a final that is due NOW, but instead you're writing this list...
-when you actually KNOW of a site with a list full of these things
-everytime you fall you right yourself into a negtiva and role up off the ground
-people look at you strangely for playing the air berimbau
-you watch martial arts movie and begin saying things like, "that was a great armada...i mean, spin kick the jet li just did."
-you chew gum to the beat of the berimbau
-whenever you drop something and bend over to pick it up you have to finish the role
- Any time your friends see someone do a flip or breakdance they say "hey thats capoeira!" and you go off explaining to them how different capoeira is from breakdancing or gymnastics.
-When you can't give someone a hug without guarding for a banda or cabecada
-You decide that au au batido is the proper response to a handshake
-Any time you encounter a reflective surface, you start doing moves to check your technique
-You constantly check to see if the white pants a random person on the street is wearing are capoeira pants.
-The weather gets warm and the first thing that goes through your head is "beautiful day for an outdoor roda!
-When your dad screams at you at 4am in the morning: "What the hell are you doing playing capoeira at this hour?"

there!


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, <[e-mail]> wrote:

-all your Art assignments are pictures of berimbaus in different forms of art. abtract, composed, forgrouned, depth, realistic, piccasso, etc.
-when you're proud enough that your name starts with a K. K is simular to C.
- when you have to work at a lame job. No work = no money, no money = no capoeira, no capoeira = no life.
- When you can prove einstien's relative energy equation wrong.... it is E = Capoeira
- when you use tour door knob as a spotter for your au batidos.
- when ever you walk by a empty lot or an empty area of grass you say "this would be a great place for a roda."
-when you googled map the word "Capoeira" and found the city!!!!
-you video tape every capoeira event
-you believe chuck norris would've been a great capoeirista
- when you have the aspiration to make the war berimbau. (a berimbau made out of animal parts)
- when you do a role every time you get off te ground.
-when ever you start a move... you can't stop but finish it.
- when you believe bruce lee was a capoeirista.
- when you believe jackie chan copied the art of capoeira in his movies.
- when you acttualy havfe the time to write this.
- when you try to make a berimbau out of clay during art class.
-you drew a circle...... and then a berimbau.
- you dream of becoming a capoeirista vigilate
- you draw capoeira moves on your lecture notes.
- a good night sleep is a night full of rodas and berimbaus.
- when you wake people up with the berimbau
- when you use your roof to practice your walk overs.
-when you keep playing when you hurt your ankle.
-when you hurt your ankle you make it feel better with meu lua de cappassos.
- when there's a bug on your pants, you shake it off with a maccacao
- if chuck norris didnt do capoeira.... his chuck norris facts are just full of shame.

bam! capoeira!

[Trovador]

5 things i can come up with lol

You know you're a capoeirista when:

1) after setting up all your dj equipment you sing Puxada De Rede to test the mic and speakers
2) every time you see a cop Cavalaria starts playing in your head
3) every open grass area you come accross you feel a strange urge to do a Mortal or Folha Seca on it
4) you go into watermellon music just to play Maculele on the congas for like 5 minutes straight and then leave lol
5) you meet someone at a club/bar who knows capoeira and you leave for 20-30 minutes to go play a few games. Then return to the club/bar only to get asked why you're so sweaty and tired haha.