Capoeira – alper.nl

Playing capoeira and eating lots of meat

I’ve never come as close to a depiction of paradise as with this picture:

Last weekend I went to my fourth â€”I guess, I lost countâ€” annual capoeira camping in Wapse and it was again a resounding success. I’ve got the pictures to prove it.

Merry Christmas

Shot a guerilla Christmas vid of the gang after last Thursday’s training:

Breaking the berimbau

These last couple of months we’ve been having regular music lessons. It’s a lot of fun and we are making crazy progress.

This is Divino playing something awesome¹ which we’ll be learning very soon.

You can watch it in HD at the main YouTube site just like with Vimeo. [↩]

Current affairs

My days in Berkeley/Oakland¹ used to be filled with:
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And now my days are filled with:

Tomorrow it’s back to the city and doing some last things before flying back early Sunday morning.

About which more later. [↩]

A weekend with friends for me only reaches conclusion after the pictures have been edited and placed online. The process takes some time but also allows/forces me to relive it. This time the process has been further prolonged because I have to wait until somewhere next week to pick up my developed film.

Last weekend in Wapse with friends was quite awesome, here are some stills:

Normal service

Back from holiday, the surf was mostly flat but a good time was had, judging from the pictures on Flickr¹.

Normal service will resume here at least until half of August when I will break shortly for Wapsen and maybe thereafter a bit longer for the former Yugoslavia.

Still sorting through the bunch from Apremont and Nantes. [↩]

Some capoeira pictures

It’s been a week but I’ve just gotten around to processing them after the event. Here’s a small selection of capoeira pictures:

Fast Portraits

Last week we had the batizado for our group with people coming in from Amsterdam, Norway, London and Portugal just to celebrate this event together. The batizado with associated parties and barbecues is a highlight of the year and this year proved to be a great amount of fun.

Traditionally the batizado ends on Sunday with a churrasco and having everybody together and mellow is a nice opportunity to shoot some pictures. For this set I took gnomo‘s Nikon with 50mm f/1.4, a splendid lens if ever there is one and I ambushed everybody for their portrait within 10 minutes.

Here’s a small selection:

Category: Capoeira

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