New Look!

Changes...
- First) Notice the lovely picture at the top, and click on it to follow a link to all my recent photos. The picture was taken while I was in India in March this year, right outside Mahabodhi temple (where Sakyamuni Buddha meditated under a tree and reached Nirvana)
- Second) I put up a video of my Capoeira King of the Hill roda in Bangkok, at the very very bottom of this page. It's about 12 minutes of me playing nonstop!
- Third) ...there is no Third!

Look for me at 1:32 in the video (that is...1 minute and 32 seconds in)


The above video was taken smack in the middle of Mong Kok, a busy shopping area and one of the most densely peopled areas in Hong Kong.

Some highlights(good and bad) of my week of Capoeira workshops:
1.) I took a video of all of us Capoeiristas singing in the MTR - the subway system in Hong Kong. If you know HK, then you would know that that would be a very peculiar and rare thing to see...a bunch of folks singing call-n-response in Portuguese interspersed by British-accented: "Please stand back from the doors". Unfortunately my phone has issues, so sorry, don't have the video!
2.) I kicked a beginner in the head really hard (with a mealua decompasso). He said he was fine that night, but the next day he got dizziness and a headache, and took off work to go to the hospital. Turned out he was OK!
3.) The night after that, playing with a guest instructor in the roda, I was taken down really really hard, and on hard wooden floor too. For some reason I'm really easy to take down. Actually, go to about 7:30 in the Capoeira video at the bottom of this page, and you'll see me get taken down really bad...but at least it was on grass.