Capoeira night

Last night I went to a capoeira class in Dallas. Capoeira (cahp-oh-aid-ah) is a Brazilian martial art that combines fighting, music, and dancing and originated from African slaves in Brazil. I went with my YW 1st counselor and her husband, who know it pretty well. While she was at BYU, Sister Kemp trained with an international group called CapuraGinga and the guy who's teaching this class, so she was very excited when he and his wife moved to Dallas and he decided to teach capoeira. After Sis. Kemp got married they convinced her husband to start doing it. The teacher and his wife are amazing. Everyone in a capoeira group gets a Portuguese nickname, and his is Furacao. It means hurricane, and he is one, let me tell ya. After the class he showed us a few sweet kicks, including a 720-degree one and one that almost hit the ceiling fan. I also mastered tambourine playing. It was a fun night! These are pictures of the group CapuraGinga playing in the roda (ring). Furacao is the guy in the second picture playing the stick thing and I think that's him flipping in the last picture. Recognize the building behind him? Yep, it's the Salt Lake temple.