So much to think about, and yet so little time to write about it. Online at least. I've been keeping my thoughts to myself, luckily, in the form of notebooks. Since...I'd say around February, the notebook where I keep my bible study notes became the notebook for just about everything. Observations, thoughts, sketches, bible study things and the like. Really, it's useful to have a notebook on you. You never know when you need to jot something down, cause texting a note in your phone or just trying to remember it won't cut it.
So Capoeira.
The Afro-Brazilian martial art that can be considered or confused as a dance, whoever you're talking to. Some people think it's stupid. Some people think it's wonderful. Whatever they feel, it's rather big, and at the same time, it's not. The interesting about Capoeira is that, to me, it's everywhere, but a lot of my friends really don't know what it is, or even never heard of it. I see giant roda's, small roda's, containing people of different walks of life that practice it. It had its origins in Africa and/or Brazil and then, somehow, into todays world, made its way to Japan, Israel, the US, Canada, and different parts of Europe. You name it, Capoeira is probably there, SOMEWHERE.
Even in a town like Rochester.
It's been a great past 3 weeks for me and capoeira. Coming from 2 quarters of an endless barrage of work, I was so out of practice when I started practicing again a couple of weeks before the ImagineRIT event, and then a week after, the Batizado. I hated it. I hated not being able to play and I hated being so out of practice. Work takes priority, does it not?
Nevertheless, playing week after week in the last couple of weeks have been great. It has reinvigorated my willingness to improve, especially when the Batizado came along. It was my first all day event, and it was the first time in a while since I've played someone from outside of the club. Trying new things was refreshing. Playing new people made me wonder how my game can improve. In small steps? Leaps and bounds? We'll see.
Here's to summer training.
-Nick
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I have a lot of male associates and friends who are into martial arts. What concerns me is that I believe they lead to competition, and no matter what people say, that competition is tinged with anger. It's hard for me to support that.
I hear ya. I'm not too fond of sparring with Vernon and the rest of them. But they're interested in practicing. What I hope they don't do is bring that kind of "anger" into what I practice. The whole concept is to play, not fight.
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