Cordao De Ouro Capoeira Bay Area

Meu Mestre, Chicote, gave me the blessing to teach capoeira last week in a car ride I gave after class last week. We were talking about our capoeira group in particular about how we're a fortunate capoeira group that has two amazing capoeiristas, Professor Berinjela and Xango. They're been doing capoeira togethert for 14 years now and whatever capoeira events and batizados that I've been to, I always hear about how lucky I am to have these two amazing people as my capoeira professors. Now it's time spread the knowledge of what I've been taught these past 5 years and 10 months of my capoeira life. Teaching has been on my mind for the past year ever since I received my yellow cordao last November at our Los Angeles capoeira batizado. I hope to learn so much more about capoeira as a teacher as much as I can. I hope to do well because I was a wrestling coach for 2 years and I dealt with 14 year old high school kids who didn't know a thing about high school wrestling and 17 year old wrestlers who still needed to work on wrestling techniques to better themselves. Either way, everyone always has something to learn and progress with when learning a new hobby, sport, martial art, or any other physical/mental activity. I love my cordao de ouro capoeira bay area group. I want to see us grow bigger and spread out knowledge/culture to people and introduce them to an amazing world. I think once people actually know what capoeira is, it's pretty easy to fall in love with it. It's a culture that I feel was made for me! I love martial arts, music, dancing, and a diversity of good people. The past 7 years since our group started in the bay area through Mestre Chicote, I've seen people join and choose to leave the group for their own personal decisions but I only hope now since Mestre gave me, menina and coxinha the push to go out there and begin to teach capoeira that our group only get bigger and bigger from now on. I'm really excited for the next years to come and the potential future for our group.

My situation with my life write now is a little undetermined for the moment because I'm enlisting into the Army this month. I'm going back to MEPS to finish up my physical and find out which job I'm going to be doing in the Army, my boot camp date, and where I'll be stationed at for a possible 1-4 years depending on the contract I sign when I swear in for the Army.

I hope to be stationed in northern California so that I can still be close with my capoeira group because I love them so much and we all treat each other like family. Our group is probably one of the most real, loyal, true friends I've ever had although I've only known them for about 6 years now. Although we all train and are all about the capoeira culture and what it entails as we progress with capoeira, we're also a close group of friends who are there for each other.

When I start to teach I hope to be the best teacher I can be. I'm looking forward to teaching but also learning as well. As anyone becomes a teacher of anything, they learn from their students at the same time; seeing all the mistakes the student makes, and all the hardships and reasonings for the students inability to perceive what's going on. It's the teacher's job to help the student learn and progress and work on the mistakes the student is making, to make them better.

More later...time to drive back home to Sacramento.

on a random note:

Oh yeah, the SF Giants won the world series tonight. haha..I didn't know that until I was at blake's in berkeley w/ my capoeira group and someone told me around midnight..LOL. I'm so out of the mainstream world loop in terms of news, sports and entertainment, I need to pick up a newspaper and see what's going on in the world. LOL. The past month, all I've been doing is training capoeira hella much (training kicks/movements, practicing my berimbau and learning/singing capoeira songs and researching up more capoeira history), babysitting, getting my Army paperwork all set and playing video games. haha..I don't mind though...it's all semantics. My lifestyle is different..lol

Goodnight ya'll