EPTYeah boy boy, another interloud. First, my reasons for doing an interloud instead of a normal blog:
1- I have little time. So little time. My time was only enough for watching Turkey's national team against portugal, and I couldn't stay and watch the rest after Turkey sealed it with an undisputed 3-0. I'll tell about them later on.
2- This is the reason of 1: Today I was somewhere like a village or a farm with full of beans, tomatoes, peppers etc. I came back even after the Turkey-Portugal nation war started.
3- After a stunning 3-0 with solid gameplay, this morning, I went 0-5 against 2 Zergs, 2 Terrans and a Protoss with all except one against a Zerg are cheap lame strats with decent execution from my opponents. Will be mentioned later in this blog and part 11, which is tomorrow morning for me.
4- Hellsing Ultimate Episode 8 is not released.
So, let me tell you about my capoeira life in this interloud, I remember someone requested this. Shoutout to LSB.
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Play this before going on:
First of all, we have to go back in time. To 2003 or 2004, the time I played Tekken 3 for the first time. Just like Terran now, everybody was crying and whining that Eddy was so damn strong and you can win with just pressing kick buttons (I doubt if they know anyone called Law or Hwoarang in Tekken 3). So, me and one of my elementary school friends borrowed a friend's ps1 and went Tekken 3 all day long. I had a winning streak of something like 57. And all of them were with Eddy. I knew just two comboes: Armada-Au Macaco-Salto (<-+O+OX) and Batido-Rasteira-A no name kick-Martelo de Negativa (->+O+OX+OX). Even at that time, I had affection towards Capoeira. But I didn't know its name until high school.
At high school, Turkish students are nerds without hobbies. They mostly study for their University Entrance Exams for all of their high school life of 3 years (mine was 3, it was changed one year after me, now it's 4 years). But, I'm not even OK with mass nerding on maths, chem, physics, geometry etc. I knew that there were capoeira courses out there, I even knew where they were, but as a high school student, my family wanted me to nerd as much as humanly possible becauseof my own sake and future they can show me off to their friends when I enter a good department of a good university. But I neither could nerd, nor start capoeira. After each parent-teacher meeting, my house was like: "Why is he fucking better than you? You're more clever than him, why are your teachers not satisfied of you like they are satisfied of him/her?". So, with that kind of family at that time, I was a kid who is supposed to nerd so that my parents would be able to show me off. This situation was like that until the last year, and last year, there were 3 different things: I was so fucking determined to show everyone out there that I can enter which department I want without mass nerding, I never told my family about parent-teacher meetings at school during the last year, free time turned from uncommon to super rare. And, I couldn't start capoeira again. University entrance exams deserve a seperate part of its own, and now I was a university student in the best university of Turkey and the best department of that university. So yay for my parents, they can show me off!
University, freshman year. After having mass fights with my family and not that 'mass' nerding, my capoeirista spirit was like asleep. Until that time I meet one of my friends who started capoeira. I was like "damn, i have to wait next year so that I can start capoeira". And I waited all the spring term and summer for the start of the next fall term, and finally it was the time: The first capoeira training! I think it was a thursday of the start of the october, I was fucking excited because I was going to train capoeira and learn it as much as I can.
A small detail: I know spanish at a basic level. But, this small detail would turn into a huge advantage over all of my capoeira friends at the end of June 2010. And, because of this thing, I could understand every terminologic word of capoeira, mostly in portuguese, without needing the explanation.
And it was the time to meet our instructor, but I saw his photo before, he had long curly hair in the photo. When I saw her at the class, his hair was short. I thought out loud "wasn't his hair longer than this?" and my instructor heard it. He liked to have someone who looked at the club's website before showing up around.
In my first class, we only learned what Roda and Formação means, and the most basic movement of capoeira: Ginga.
Roda:
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Ginga:
And, class after class, I learned new things like esquiva de frente, mea lua de frente, esquiva de costa, queixada, armada, mea lua de compasso, also practicing my aus, my handstands, learning song after song, downloading them, doing rodas in trainings, and the fall semester, and my first semester doing capoeira faded away like never existed. The highlight of my first semester was a big capoeira meeting with most of the capoeira groups in Turkey, which was organized by my group and at my university. Most of the students from other groups had 2-3 years of experience at least. And I had something like 4 months? That was not completely a joke for me, but at least in some parts it was. Especially if you're trying to make a not-so-big roda and play 5 simultaneous games instead of 1. People crashing each other, people jumping into the game out of nowhere, people getting out of 1 game and going into another one right after, Over 150 people training simultaneously... It looked like a joke first, but it was hell nice. Another highlight of the semester, I had a girlfriend who hated capoeira, thought that capoeira is dangerous (even comparing with football, futsal, basketball, capoeira is wtf.), couldn't pronounce the word capoeira, saying "that bullcrap" instead of capoeira etc.
Start of the second term, it was like march 2010 or something, I broke up with my girl and we started doing outdoor rodas. The main purpose was to get people know capoeira (not everybody is like me here), and thou have some fun outdoor. For your interest, you do capoeira barefoot. So, feeling the grass with your feet and doing capoeira at the same time is a good thing until you come across a stone-wood-something pointed. Fortunately, we had none of them. Besides playing outside, singing out loud, showing off our skills (not my skills, I was a low skill noob at that time and I still am). But it was then, I first realized that I actually developed a game sense. Mostly, I used to look at the incoming kicks instead of dodging them. At that time, I started dodging most of the kicks.
After the spring semester officially started, and we made an orientation meeting, we had new people, one of which is the girl who threw a party for me on my birthday, which was yesterday. We train in 2 seperate groups, people with belts and people without belts. We, pwob group, had 2 generations in it. Old new guys, and new new guys (lol omg wtf). We were the old new guys, who started in fall semester, and new new guys were the ones who started in spring semester. We as pwob group train in 2 seperate groups of ong and nng.
We, ong group did physique orientated trainings combined with some capoeira sequences whereas nng started with basics and mostly technique oriented trainings. We ong were preparing to get ashgray-yellow belt, and nng were preparing to get ashgray belt and our batizado was coming closer and closer.
And I reserved another paragraph for that girl for two reasons: I think she deserves it and I got nothing else to write until my batizado. We started talking in and after trainings, became close friends after that (lol, the stepping stone was playing backgammon :D another fyi thing, backgammon is go's equivalent in Turkey. It's so fucking common among 16+ year old people). Drank a couple of times together, both bringing ice tea to trainings, and we're still so close friends because none of us fell for the other. Good thing. Try at least once.
And here it came, the batizado. It was a 3 day organization, we had 4 guest instructors from spain and portugal, all brazilian and nobody except our instructors could communicate with them, and of course there is me who knows basic spanish. We trained 2 days with guest instructors and last day was show-time. We were training together for 4 hours, starting at 12 pm, give 1 hour break for eating, train back 4 hours. We trained some capoeira, some maculele, some samba, got our nicknames (as most of you may guess, mine is Lobo, which means Wolf). And last day, we did our show, got our belts, had more fun later on.
Highlights:
1- I, as the only spanish speaking student, was eating alone with all 4 guest instructors on the last day, the most experienced one said something to me in spanish and I didn't understand it. I said that I couldn't understand, it was like:
- Of course you did.
- No i didn't
- Hahahaha, you did.
- No, i really didn't :D
- Hahahahaha, you did, I know.
- No really :D
Then, another one said in English: "You need to fuck a girl". We were all like "WTF ROFL :D:D:D:D".
2- On the show day, a guest samba dancer girl appeared on the scene. We knew that she would appear, but we had no clue about what she was going to do. In the middle of the show, she came down from the stage, at that time I was sitting next to a girl, we were talking about how the show is. Dancer came to us, held the girl's hand, she was being dragged to the scene, and I was like "hahahaha good luck on the scene :D". Then suddenly the dancer turned, started dragging me with her other hand (It would have been a lot better if there was nobody else there), girl replied: "good luck to you too". And we as a trio danced together on the scene with only me having no clue about what to do, eventually I either missed all the turns, or turned in the wrong direction (my samba isn't a miserable fail like it was on that stage, but i just had no clue about what out main dancer would do).
3- All 4 of our guest instructors rejected the flowers that we gave them on the stage, and after the show, I got all 4 bouquets of flowers and presented them to the samba dancer along with myself. This was a total highlight as everyone including the samba dancer and myself was "WTF ROFL" and nobody could say any word.
- Are these all for me?
- Yes, of course. Thank you for honoring us with your presence.
- Ooooooooooooooh, thank you so much.
Lol, it was awesome :D.
4- We were about to do samba, main instructor said "is there a man here, to company this girl" addressing to the girl I would later sit with in the last day's show and dance on the stage. One of our friends stepped up and instructor said "no, not you". Everybody Rofl'd.
5- Another one from samba, from 2nd day, rule is: Everybody changes partner once the song stops and go on with new partner when song goes on. Song stopped, everybody changed partner except me, I noticed that one of our instructors didn't change partners, I grabbed his partner and said "go change partners man".
Everything about it was awesome.
After that, we continued trainings in the summer and now, the new semester will start on monday, we'll do an orientation meeting for new guys soon enough. This will be just too much fun for anyone who is interested in capoeira.
That's that, until I blog about capoeira again. If you were able to read all the wayup down to here, congrats for you.
1- I have little time. So little time. My time was only enough for watching Turkey's national team against portugal, and I couldn't stay and watch the rest after Turkey sealed it with an undisputed 3-0. I'll tell about them later on.
2- This is the reason of 1: Today I was somewhere like a village or a farm with full of beans, tomatoes, peppers etc. I came back even after the Turkey-Portugal nation war started.
3- After a stunning 3-0 with solid gameplay, this morning, I went 0-5 against 2 Zergs, 2 Terrans and a Protoss with all except one against a Zerg are cheap lame strats with decent execution from my opponents. Will be mentioned later in this blog and part 11, which is tomorrow morning for me.
4- Hellsing Ultimate Episode 8 is not released.
So, let me tell you about my capoeira life in this interloud, I remember someone requested this. Shoutout to LSB.
----------------------------
Play this before going on:
First of all, we have to go back in time. To 2003 or 2004, the time I played Tekken 3 for the first time. Just like Terran now, everybody was crying and whining that Eddy was so damn strong and you can win with just pressing kick buttons (I doubt if they know anyone called Law or Hwoarang in Tekken 3). So, me and one of my elementary school friends borrowed a friend's ps1 and went Tekken 3 all day long. I had a winning streak of something like 57. And all of them were with Eddy. I knew just two comboes: Armada-Au Macaco-Salto (<-+O+OX) and Batido-Rasteira-A no name kick-Martelo de Negativa (->+O+OX+OX). Even at that time, I had affection towards Capoeira. But I didn't know its name until high school.
At high school, Turkish students are nerds without hobbies. They mostly study for their University Entrance Exams for all of their high school life of 3 years (mine was 3, it was changed one year after me, now it's 4 years). But, I'm not even OK with mass nerding on maths, chem, physics, geometry etc. I knew that there were capoeira courses out there, I even knew where they were, but as a high school student, my family wanted me to nerd as much as humanly possible because
University, freshman year. After having mass fights with my family and not that 'mass' nerding, my capoeirista spirit was like asleep. Until that time I meet one of my friends who started capoeira. I was like "damn, i have to wait next year so that I can start capoeira". And I waited all the spring term and summer for the start of the next fall term, and finally it was the time: The first capoeira training! I think it was a thursday of the start of the october, I was fucking excited because I was going to train capoeira and learn it as much as I can.
A small detail: I know spanish at a basic level. But, this small detail would turn into a huge advantage over all of my capoeira friends at the end of June 2010. And, because of this thing, I could understand every terminologic word of capoeira, mostly in portuguese, without needing the explanation.
And it was the time to meet our instructor, but I saw his photo before, he had long curly hair in the photo. When I saw her at the class, his hair was short. I thought out loud "wasn't his hair longer than this?" and my instructor heard it. He liked to have someone who looked at the club's website before showing up around.
In my first class, we only learned what Roda and Formação means, and the most basic movement of capoeira: Ginga.
Roda:
Ginga:
And, class after class, I learned new things like esquiva de frente, mea lua de frente, esquiva de costa, queixada, armada, mea lua de compasso, also practicing my aus, my handstands, learning song after song, downloading them, doing rodas in trainings, and the fall semester, and my first semester doing capoeira faded away like never existed. The highlight of my first semester was a big capoeira meeting with most of the capoeira groups in Turkey, which was organized by my group and at my university. Most of the students from other groups had 2-3 years of experience at least. And I had something like 4 months? That was not completely a joke for me, but at least in some parts it was. Especially if you're trying to make a not-so-big roda and play 5 simultaneous games instead of 1. People crashing each other, people jumping into the game out of nowhere, people getting out of 1 game and going into another one right after, Over 150 people training simultaneously... It looked like a joke first, but it was hell nice. Another highlight of the semester, I had a girlfriend who hated capoeira, thought that capoeira is dangerous (even comparing with football, futsal, basketball, capoeira is wtf.), couldn't pronounce the word capoeira, saying "that bullcrap" instead of capoeira etc.
Start of the second term, it was like march 2010 or something, I broke up with my girl and we started doing outdoor rodas. The main purpose was to get people know capoeira (not everybody is like me here), and thou have some fun outdoor. For your interest, you do capoeira barefoot. So, feeling the grass with your feet and doing capoeira at the same time is a good thing until you come across a stone-wood-something pointed. Fortunately, we had none of them. Besides playing outside, singing out loud, showing off our skills (not my skills, I was a low skill noob at that time and I still am). But it was then, I first realized that I actually developed a game sense. Mostly, I used to look at the incoming kicks instead of dodging them. At that time, I started dodging most of the kicks.
After the spring semester officially started, and we made an orientation meeting, we had new people, one of which is the girl who threw a party for me on my birthday, which was yesterday. We train in 2 seperate groups, people with belts and people without belts. We, pwob group, had 2 generations in it. Old new guys, and new new guys (lol omg wtf). We were the old new guys, who started in fall semester, and new new guys were the ones who started in spring semester. We as pwob group train in 2 seperate groups of ong and nng.
We, ong group did physique orientated trainings combined with some capoeira sequences whereas nng started with basics and mostly technique oriented trainings. We ong were preparing to get ashgray-yellow belt, and nng were preparing to get ashgray belt and our batizado was coming closer and closer.
And I reserved another paragraph for that girl for two reasons: I think she deserves it and I got nothing else to write until my batizado. We started talking in and after trainings, became close friends after that (lol, the stepping stone was playing backgammon :D another fyi thing, backgammon is go's equivalent in Turkey. It's so fucking common among 16+ year old people). Drank a couple of times together, both bringing ice tea to trainings, and we're still so close friends because none of us fell for the other. Good thing. Try at least once.
And here it came, the batizado. It was a 3 day organization, we had 4 guest instructors from spain and portugal, all brazilian and nobody except our instructors could communicate with them, and of course there is me who knows basic spanish. We trained 2 days with guest instructors and last day was show-time. We were training together for 4 hours, starting at 12 pm, give 1 hour break for eating, train back 4 hours. We trained some capoeira, some maculele, some samba, got our nicknames (as most of you may guess, mine is Lobo, which means Wolf). And last day, we did our show, got our belts, had more fun later on.
Highlights:
1- I, as the only spanish speaking student, was eating alone with all 4 guest instructors on the last day, the most experienced one said something to me in spanish and I didn't understand it. I said that I couldn't understand, it was like:
- Of course you did.
- No i didn't
- Hahahaha, you did.
- No, i really didn't :D
- Hahahahaha, you did, I know.
- No really :D
Then, another one said in English: "You need to fuck a girl". We were all like "WTF ROFL :D:D:D:D".
2- On the show day, a guest samba dancer girl appeared on the scene. We knew that she would appear, but we had no clue about what she was going to do. In the middle of the show, she came down from the stage, at that time I was sitting next to a girl, we were talking about how the show is. Dancer came to us, held the girl's hand, she was being dragged to the scene, and I was like "hahahaha good luck on the scene :D". Then suddenly the dancer turned, started dragging me with her other hand (It would have been a lot better if there was nobody else there), girl replied: "good luck to you too". And we as a trio danced together on the scene with only me having no clue about what to do, eventually I either missed all the turns, or turned in the wrong direction (my samba isn't a miserable fail like it was on that stage, but i just had no clue about what out main dancer would do).
3- All 4 of our guest instructors rejected the flowers that we gave them on the stage, and after the show, I got all 4 bouquets of flowers and presented them to the samba dancer along with myself. This was a total highlight as everyone including the samba dancer and myself was "WTF ROFL" and nobody could say any word.
- Are these all for me?
- Yes, of course. Thank you for honoring us with your presence.
- Ooooooooooooooh, thank you so much.
Lol, it was awesome :D.
4- We were about to do samba, main instructor said "is there a man here, to company this girl" addressing to the girl I would later sit with in the last day's show and dance on the stage. One of our friends stepped up and instructor said "no, not you". Everybody Rofl'd.
5- Another one from samba, from 2nd day, rule is: Everybody changes partner once the song stops and go on with new partner when song goes on. Song stopped, everybody changed partner except me, I noticed that one of our instructors didn't change partners, I grabbed his partner and said "go change partners man".
Everything about it was awesome.
After that, we continued trainings in the summer and now, the new semester will start on monday, we'll do an orientation meeting for new guys soon enough. This will be just too much fun for anyone who is interested in capoeira.
That's that, until I blog about capoeira again. If you were able to read all the way
