Day 13

Today, True Fitness introduced Capoeira to their members in USJ Taipan for the very first time. The advertisements around the club were very enticing - "Brazilian martial arts / dance to funky music", or something of that ilk (sorry, I ad-libbed). As expected, the studio was PACKED to the MAX. It was very scary to see the amount of people stuffed into the room. And as you all know, capoeira requires a LOT of space, because of all the kicks and ginga (the basic, fundamental move in Capoeira. Is basically side-step + step to the back, then repeat on the other side. Got a sort of "rocking" motion going on). We could all barely move!

But nobody budged an inch... everyone had to stay to see what the whole deal was about. I also kiasu, I tried capoeira before (and the music was far from funky... it was like Balinese prayer music) and wasn't impressed, but wanted to see what TF had to offer.

I have to say, that the guy (Mr Quek? Quack?) was really good. But he was a bit too advanced for us... seriously til now I have no idea what the steps were. And because of the space limitation, I don't think it was a good idea to have all those fancy kicks. (But if no fancy kicks, how many other moves left to teach?) As it is, I kicked someone's hand... twice. Damn bloody terrible wei.

The music was much nicer than the capoeira class that I tried at Celebrity Fitness. Yeah, it's definitely funky! The best part about the class was at the end, when he let us learn how to do cartwheels (small-small only... must wait til arms muscular then only go and flip around), and then do bridges. ^^ Wah, back pain now.

Anyway, it was an alright introduction, will definitely be back next week. Am I wicked for hoping it won't be as popular next week? Need. More. Space. Didn't get to sweat much this round. Luckily I went for a run on the threadmill before the class (up to 9.2kph again!) and then did 25 x 4 abdominal trunk crunches. Yummy. =)

Signing off,
~leech