Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Fight like a dancer and Dance like a fighter


My new thing is Capoeira. Its a Brazilian martial art that was developed back when they had slavery. The slaves weren't allowed to train so they disguised it as dancing....its kind of like if you mixed break dancing with karate and added some samba music.
Check out this video:
That's pretty much how I look when I do it....or maybe its not.
I did actually go into the circle to spar last night. yikes! If nothing else I'm learning to not be embarrassed when I'm not good at stuff in front of large groups of people :)

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Are you still doing it by yourself? I thought TJ was going to start doing it with you. I am so impressed!

Andrea J said...

That's fantastic, I was always very impressed when I would walk past capoiera circles at BYU. Different than walking past the sword fighters for sure.

Izzy said...

Now we know how T.J. and Steve feel when we take them salsa dancing. At least you are not fleeing from your challenges....hint hint T.J. and Steve.

love - izzy