In Part 1 we explore au de cabeça.  Can you break your neck?  How do you make a tripod?  Would Jodie Foster do an au de cabeça if you asked her?

Part 2 has us responding to a listener's email about our body types episode.  What does it mean to be successful in capoeira?  Is OTS too dismissive of people with physical limitations?  Can you only be successful if you leave your spouse and kids?

Our Halloween Special episode.  After much confusion regarding the existential status of our hosts, we hit the ground lurching with the terrifying origin story of capoeira.  Then Bonzinho administers a capoeira trivia game (cue much shame from your other hosts).  And Sucão finishes the day with a story of a peculiar, haunted takedown he witnessed at a street roda in Brazil.  

(Spooky Beats by Blue)

After 12 episodes, we've finally made it over to the ginga.  We all think of it as a move, but is it really just a transition?  Or is every move just a transition to the next move? 

And that's the end of the harmony.  Part 2 brings much disagreement about legitimacy in capoeira, and whether you need to do things like samba, maculele, puxada de rede, etc. to up your AfroBrazilian street cred.  In essence, as Bonzinho says, we're asking, "Can Miley Cyrus twerk?"

In Part 1 we start off with some tips all about the atabaque.  As usual, Sucão takes it too far - his relationship with the atabaque is not PG13.

Part 2 has us discussing different ceilings in capoeira and how to slide around them.  We explore some self-imposed barriers like fear of the roda and whether you can be a true capoeirista if you're not Brazilian, and external barriers like discrimination or downright mean teachers.  And we learn that "Bonzinho" is Portuguese for "swol elf."

The episode that almost never was.  We begin already furious with each other and go straight into whether rasteira de mao is any good.  A great way to take someone down safely?  Or too spammy and inelegant?

Part 2 has Azul take the lead with some observations on other sport communities and how they compare to capoeira.  What makes the capoeira community unique?  Maybe music, maybe history, maybe culture, maybe marching alongside your fellow soldiers into combat.

If you do a handstand on a spinning body (like the Earth) isn't that a hand spin?  We're characteristically divided on our advice: either it's the hips, or it's the atom you select to spin on, or it's the breakdancers you talk to.

Then it's on to how strange and difficult becoming a teacher can be.  It's in the personality, or it's in the curriculum, or it's all about your winning smile.  Plus we solve the mystery, "What country does Brazil come from?"

We go overboard on meia lua de compasso. Varal endorses foot switching but not one-handed meia luas, Sucao trains it so he can stop time and go in reverse, Bonzinho weeps at the sight of a 1000-year kick, and Azul predicts someone's time of death based on their technique.

Then 3 of us debate the merits of running family classes compared to standard kids classes (1 of us is seriously unqualified in this area).  Plus a bonus argument over the benefits of teaching practical self-defense in capoeira classes

CM Versatil and his Masters degree in Counseling join us to talk about flirting, sex, batizados, bystander intervention, and emboscadas (ambushes). 

Note: Versatil was being driven through Nevada while we recorded and sometimes the aliens interfered with his audio.  I hope everything is intelligible, and any mistakes or technical glitches are mine.  -Varal

Join us for an extended discussion on an Angola class Sucão took and an open roda Azul and Bonzinho attended.  We learn how to buy the game, some explanation for hand balanço, that a chair won't judge your meia lua de compasso, and that you should always call ahead.

We leave off with a short discussion of flirting and overt sexual behavior at rodas.  More on that coming in Part 2.

We finally get around to talking about bananeira after referencing it in so many other episodes, going over details like a tucked pelvis, tight core, and not pooping your pants. 

Then our guide to aging gracefully, which is not so much a guide as an argument.  We're the youngest old people you'll meet in capoeira, so we're the perfect podcast to suss out how to prioritize capoeira as life moves on.