What Happened to My Weekend?

As usual the days are running together. Had a pretty full on weekend.

Friday
Bantus Capoeira Malaysia's 5th Anniversary roda. Pretty awesome roda primarily cos there was so much new energy coming in from the peeps who are training at our other little venues i.e. True Fit, Celeb, Monash, Sunway, Taylors, Shell, PW, WMAC, and Bom Brazil. Very proud of the work done by the seniors. They have really shown consistent commitment over an extended period of time which I feel is very rare for capoeira groups. In groups outside of Brazil, most of the time you will see the mestre or instructor who is running it just staying there at the top and his students will kinda some in waves and cycles, maybe leaving one or two super senior students to assist him. But I really think we have something special going on here in Bantus Malaysia and I'm very proud to be a part of that.

Back to roda commentary. Some nice games with lots of good energy followed by a quick samba de roda. After roda officially finished some of us were not satisfied with our roda time and proceeded to play some angola. Felt good... haven't played angola in awhile but I feel that unlike regional, I never loose the feel or the timing even tho I play it so sparingly.

All in all a good nights work!

Saturday
Had a demo for a college charity event and I'm sorry to say but, I was not too happy with the organizers. Had only two requests, 1 - Give us a shaded area, 2 - No pressure to start or stop, we will do things on our own time. Organizers stuck us in the blazing noon sun. They called me 5 times in the morning and when I got there, every 5 minutes they asked me when we are ready. And to top it all off, they stopped our roda when we moved to a more shady location after our brief formal show to continue, even tho I had asked them permission before hand. Sigh......

I had already downed some Fast Twitch so I just went to the gym to work it off. And work it off I did:

Super long wamrup and core stretch

Barbell bent over row (back stretch in between sets)
90 lbs + olympic bar x 3 reps x 5 sets

Squats (lower body stretch in betweeen sets)
140lbs + olympic bar x 3 reps x 5 sets

Weighted dips (chest stretch in between sets)
35lbs x 3 reps x 5 sets

Total body stretch to finish off

Sunday
Light stretch and warmdown at Celeb class