Comments on: Challenge: In Six Words or Fewer, What Does Capoeira Mean to You? http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/ (noun, feminine): capoeira player who is skilled, experienced, intelligent, powerful, dangerous, and not to be underestimated Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:26:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nzinga http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1959 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 02:39:19 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1959 Who’s this artist?

]]> By: Tani http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1680 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:51:44 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1680 “‘Body exerting, mind at peace”

“Movement of body; stillness of thought”

“Cocktail of energy, playfulness and desire”

“Physical freedom, mental paradise”

I dunno, I guess I’m trying to grasp the feeling I get when playing capoeira…
My body is working hard, and I’m so completely focused on capoeira that all my troubles melt away and my mind is at peace.

]]> By: Joaninha http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1317 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:08:43 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1317 Thanks for adding to this, guys!

Robin, yours is awesome.

Hahaha Cobrador…someone had to say it! XD

]]> By: cobrador http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1315 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:44:02 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1315 an afro-brazilian fight-dance. (buuaachhh)

(sorry for being discusting)

actually i have a better one

get to know yourself

]]> By: Robin http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1313 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:10:31 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1313 A physical parallel to the Blues.

]]> By: Joaninha http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1081 Wed, 14 May 2008 12:04:40 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1081 Cool, it must be interesting working with such a variety of ages…oh yeah, and what do you tell them? “I can win against a ninja AND a pirate!” :P

]]> By: Leão http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1079 Tue, 13 May 2008 22:46:13 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1079 The students I’ll teach are secondary school… So for you Canadians, it’d be Grade 9 through Grade 12. Though sometimes I’ll teach middle school, so I’ll teach students as young as 12 to as old as 18 (and if I’m at a certain school, as old as 25).

]]> By: Joaninha http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1077 Mon, 12 May 2008 20:54:06 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1077 Wow Caneta…you sure have an active family! That’s awesome. Haha, a capoeira haiku, love it! I tried posting a “capoeira haiku in 3 minutes” once while travelling (3 minutes was how much time I had left on my computer at the internet cafe), but then deleted it right after. XD

girl in a circle
surrounded by energy
nothing but motion

]]> By: Caneta http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1076 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:55:07 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1076 ooh, how bout a Capo’ Haiku?

traveling fam’ly
two hours away from home
to work and play hard

]]> By: Caneta http://mandingueira.com/2008/03/30/challenge-in-six-words-or-less-what-does-capoeira-mean-to-you/#comment-1075 Mon, 12 May 2008 19:51:16 +0000 http://mandingueira.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-1075 Learning art with friends and family. This would be my story. While Capoeira in of itself is enough for me to be enamored of it and to thoroughly enjoy it, the fact that my husband and our children all do it together makes it the icing on the cake.

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