Muito axé

I had an absolute shocker of a capoeira session last night. I just started feeling massively overheated after about an hour, and just had to stop so that I could breathe properly again. I hope I'm not coming down with something. I had a bit of a rest and managed a couple of restrained turns in the roda at the end.
Mascote, the kid of the group, was the opposite of me. A fidget at the best of times, he was ludicrously over-energetic last night. In the roda he was tearing up the place, but not thinking it through. At one point all I had to do was sidestep behind him and wait till he stood up out of rolê to smack him in the back of the head. (I didn't actually kick him, of course. It's bad form, and anyway he's about 12.) Kind of a weird evening.

The cool news is we all now have our uniforms - the abadás(trousers) and cordas (rope belts), at least. T-shirts to come. Definitely makes one feel a bit more like a proper capoeirista. Despite my last post here, the bananeiras have not been going so well, but my aú and meia-lua de compasso are improving considerably. I think a lot of it is getting enough practice that you can afford to think about what you are doing next rather than how to execute it.