

Instrutor Bambu:
Kick Gargamel, not the Smurfs.
This is our street roda at Crown Center plaza in Kansas City. We like to call them capoeira flash mobs :D The security guards walked up after a few minutes and told us to leave. Ahh, the life of a capoeirista.
This past weekend was the Batizado for Axé Capoeira Kansas City. A long weekend of 4 to 6 hour workshops followed by the capoeira ceremony, the event called Batizado (baptism). If you deserve it, this is where a capoeirista can receive a promotion and a higher cordão.
I was surprised and excited to be up for promotion. Here, I play with Professor Tigrão from Axé Capoeira Calgary for my azul (blue) cordão. Just one rank shy of where I used to be before I moved away from Kansas City.