shack!!

1st ever training by mestre ousado yesterday.. i have only one word to describe: shack!!
it was the first time that my t-shirt is wet all the way from warming up till the end of the roda..
we started with normal warm up, then the nightmare came it..
we did normal ginga first, then followed by combinations of cartwells, rolling, kicks, negatives and such.. we did this non-stop for about fifteen to twenty minutes!! and we thought he was going to give us break after the last combination, he started showing us the next one! man..
and i have all my respect to this 50-year-old mestre of ours.. respect man..
half a century old, yet still energetic and enthusiastic..
jumping around, relentlessly pushing us to ginga faster and faster, shouting out his commands and orders when he saw that we were slacking down, or not doing the combinations immediately after his explanations..
some of them are quite new and interesting i would say, that even so of my seniors had some difficulty executing it..
but then again, i would say that it's because it required some flexibility and that most of us had not been consistent in stretching regularly. for me, i stretch regularly, especially after wednesdays' training with kai zhao of nus..
back to the training, we had only a 5-minute drinking break and he would get us back into training after 3 minutes! and we started doing some practice with a partner..
and after that, roda!!
although he is still recovering from a surgery, he still joined in the roda,and kicked all our arses! up, down,left and right..
it was also the first time to see the roda smeared with so much, no, not blood, but sweat.. all our sweat..
silvano, our instructor when mestre went back to brazil, even slipped twice on it.. haha..
after that, he gave us teaching, on our movements and insight on capoeira culture..
he likes to talk, although sometimes i couldn't figure out his english at all, oh well, at least i got the general idea..
now, i'm only looking forward to his training this coming wednesday.. salve!!
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