And now for something completely different
Not everything in my world revolves about IT, OpenSource, Linux and listening to podcasts made by strange animals like this…
named Jono Bacon among others *g*
Martial-arts (more specifically capoeira) and tricking (note: capoeira != tricking and tricking != capoeira) is a way to rock my world outside of Linux and OpenSource. It is always cool to see a god-like athlete like Sesshoumaru, who packs so much artistic style in his routine, perform. Almost rocketing hissing in the air with each jump, flip and twist this show-cases an ability, which could fill his pocket-book quite easily. I am wondering when folks like him are going to land some advertising-contract with the likes of Nike, adidas or whoever or will be featured in the next flick from Jackie Chan.
On the weekend-trip to our capoeira-groups anual batizado (in Berchem, Belgium) we listened to a few nice boogaloo-, forro- and capoeira-tunes to get in the right mood for two days full of roda, flipping and generally a good time. With the rush we were in, when getting started on saturday, I forgot to take my berimbau with me. No chance to practise playing music with some of the experts. Damn! There were many guests from all over europe visiting this event… some even from as far as down under, the land of eyers-rock, koalas, kangaroos and digeridoos.
I finally learnt to get this macaquinho-movement down. I’ve been trying to learn to pull off correctly for almost a year now.
I hope to get some photos and videos of this batizado uploaded here soon.
May 5th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
You are a man after my own heart! Martial Arts and Tux do mix! I’m a Muay Thai man myself, but have thought for a while about trying a Capoeira class.
As for movies, have you heard of Tony Jaa? He is an excellent Thai Boxer and the star of Ong-Bak and Tom Yum Goong. The first is probably the better movie IMO, but the second features an excellent fight sequence with a Capoeira fighter. Unf. for you, the Thai boxer comes of best, but it is an excellent sequence none the less
Take care and thanks for your work on Compiz and the like.
Col
May 5th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Be sure to check out capoeira! It’s totally different from muay thai, but very rewarding. You’ll see.
Of course I know Tony Jaa. The two films he stars in, "Ong Bak" and "Tom Yum Goong", are already classics for me. I especially like one of the final scenes of "Tom Yum Goong" where Tony Jaa confronts Lateef Crowder, a very capable capoeirista. While much movie-fights are generally questionable, in terms of realism, this particular fight is very well shot! One of my favourite duel scene of all time.