This thread is for instances of capoeira games that you think were inspiring in how well played they were. It isn't a thread for fly capoeira acrobatics, though if someone wants such a thread, start it and I'd check it out. Here, it's simple, post a video of capoeira game(s) and talk about why you think it is so well played. Cool. The following videos are all about a ritual common to capoeira known as apanha laranja (sometimes called the money game in English). I don't know it's origins, but it is a game wherein money (or sometimes some other object) is placed in the middle of the roda and the two players try to pick it up with their teeth without getting swept, kicked in the face/teeth, etc. The player to pick up the money 'wins'. It's quite the exercise in spatial awareness, proximity and agility. It's also pretty entertaining to watch, too. The first two videos show how it's typically played at most academies (the first is at an angola academy, the second clip is at a contemporanea academy): [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPC0i93mDpI"]Contra-mestre Boca do Rio with China and M Roberval - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10J84Tf4Xmo"]Canidé Capoeira 20 anos - apanha laranja - YouTube[/ame] Nicely done in both clips. From there I go on to the next two clips, both from GCAP, which show some really exciting, edgy play. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4uqiMe4mF4"]mestre braga and armandinho money game GCAP Rio 1991 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOl5uZl7r0"]mestre braga and neco Rio 1991 GCAP - YouTube[/ame] The first clip makes me think back to when I started capoeira and people would say 'You need a lot of space to do capoeira'. I'd just make no comment and smile. Mestres Braga and Armandinho have an exciting interplay of giving and gaining space here in this game. As a good friend of mine is accustomed to saying, 'Very nice.' The ease, rapidity and agility of movement is admirable. The second clip is Braga again, Playing Mestre Neco. This clip, for me is well played, but is more notable for what I call The Drama of The Rasteira (sweep, for those that don't speak Portuguese). After a failed attempt to rasteira Braga at the :34 mark, Neco sneakily goes for it again during volta ao mundo* at 1:44 (you can actually hear the contact on the back of Braga's leg) without success, causing Braga to retaliate with his own unsuccessful rasteira at 1:51. Not only is Braga unsuccessful, he is then taken down by a follow up rasteira by Neco at 1:54. Neco then immediately calls chamada**, which temporarily stymies Braga's chance to continue the game, causing those in the audience to laugh. Neco then breaks his own chamada to feign an attack on Braga. After cautiously going back to the bateria***, Neco tries to take Braga down by grabbing his pants legs at 2:29 and Braga interrupts it by sinking his weight and continuing into another chamada with Neco, where he delivers a stunning rasteira (both Neco's feet fly up) at 2:39. Ahhh, gotta love the malicia. You also have to love the bateria/audience, too. After starting off with the corrido/song 'apanha laranja', which is pretty standard for the type of game being played, they up the ante by singing 'Oi me da meu dinheiro, valentao', a song where the protaganist is telling a thug/tough guy 'hey give me back my money'. There are loads of songs like this in capoeira that serve as theatre of a sort to intensify the game by mockingly playing up stories of animosity and confrontation. Comments are welcome and if you are so moved, post up videos you like and tell us why. paz, dormindo *volta ao mundo: ritual in capoeira in which the two players walk the circumference of the roda while watching each other for signs of willingness to restart the game or signs of planning a sneak attack. People usually enter volta ao mundo after a series of movements have reached a conclusion (someone was kicked/marked, swept, or agilely avoided same) or if there has been some sort of disruption. Though it doesn't always happen, players can interrupt the volta with an attack. **chamada: another ritual wherein the two players break/interrupt the game and join in what looks like a back and forth pas de deux. Chamada can be a test of a player's awareness and agility, because at any time during the approach, the engagement or the disengagement from chamada to return to the game, either player can make an attack. Much like with volta, it doesn't always end in attacks, so the players just have to be watchful and expect the unexpected. ***bateria: the ensemble of instruments and musicians that make the music for the roda.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZhYwtJTA9g"]Mestre Branco, Mixaria, Itapuã Beiramar e Canguru - YouTube[/ame] I like to see games like these the most - obviously playful and friendly but you still want to stay on your toes, just in case you find a hard shot or a sneaky takedown coming your way. This clip also has two of my favorite guys, one fairly recent and one who has been my hero for some time now - Mestre Branco (dude all in white, as his nickname indicates) and Jorge Itapua Beiramar (the guy in the hat and yellow shirt). I don't know much about Mixaria and Canguru - the guys in white and red t-shirts respectively - but neither of them looks too shabby either. Of note are a brilliant rasteira (sweep) by Canguru, a hip throw-ish thing and a great crash pulled off by Mestre Branco; a banda de costas (outer reap) and a nasty looking martelo (roundhouse) by Mixaria; MLDC into a foor trap, again by Canguru - you can see Lelo do something similar in his fight with Tran; and vingativa by Itapua. Actually, pay special attention to Itapua. Dude is simply brilliant. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pg6a3TbF68"]Itapuã e Gibi - Roda Lavradio - YouTube[/ame] Man... sucks to be the other guy. :cry: And here is some more Mestre Branco: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB7xzigfLY"]Mestre Branco x Graduado Guarani - YouTube[/ame] I love how, after the game takes a rougher turn at 1:55, Mestre Branco starts making small circles around his temple like the other guy is the crazy one here. Playfulness, trickery - but obviously not the kind of guy to be messed with lightly. EDIT: Something to notice about the first clip is, yet again, the brilliant use of music. You can practically FEEL the energy that is conveyed from the audience to the players through the screen and it is obvious that if it wasn't for the singing the games wouldn't be nearly as brilliant.
I don't generally watch much in the way of games that don't have at least a hint of martial intent in them. Now, I don't expect each and every game to end in an all-out brawl but a canny sweep, a sneaky headbutt, sudden takedown, or a well-timed kick that stops just short of the mark serve to spice up the glorious display of athletic movement that good capoeiristas can put on. Something like this: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgwJ9fdueuU"]Capoeira Angola - Mestre Moraes(1º). - YouTube[/ame] (okay, I'm mostly posting this because Mestre Moraes is one of these guys I simply can't get enough of. He was apparently quite the tough guy in his younger years, and you can see that - for all his playfulness - he is one of these guys you REALLY don't want on your bad side.) And yet, here's a clip that popped up on my YouTube recommendation list and, for reasons I'll explain below, really struck a chord: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Nldhcq5EQ"]Quebra Madeira e Tutti Frutti - YouTube[/ame] Yes, you can still see kicks and the like, but it's clear that they're not the most important things here - what TRULY matters is the ability to move together, challenging each other to find more daring and complex routes to go, without truly impeding the partner's movements. The sheer joy these people seem to derive from simply moving made me want to jump in there and play with either of them. On another note, I didn't even LIKE the song in this clip before. Funny how some things just come together and the entire picture ends up being greater than the sum total of its parts. Call it dancing if you will and you'd be right, after a fashion - but don't expect me to lose any sleep over it.
Reposting the clip dormindo posted over in the "Practicality..." thread because it'd be a shame to let it disappear: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1hz3PLrzxQ"]MESTRE MARROM E ALUNOS (MESTRE COBRA MANSA/TATIANA) 2011 - YouTube[/ame] Wow. Simply wow. The normally fairly laid-back Cobra Mansa really looked like he was out for blood here. And Tatiana seemed to be hanging in there with him quite well which is really no small feat, given that Cobrinha - as he's sometimes called - can make even other mestres look like complete newbies: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgJcdbVYggE"]Mestre Cobra Mansa and Mestre Poncianinho - YouTube[/ame] Now make no mistake, Mestre Poncianinho is GREAT. It's just that Cobrinha is, well, Cobrinha; one of these guys I could watch and watch, take a phone-book worth of notes, and still be sure I'm missing half the good stuff. Funnily enough, I think he was a student of Mestre Moraes at one point. Small world, eh? And here's some more footage of Tatiana: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY8KiOoIpTA"]Tati & Sabia - Movimento Novo 2009 - YouTube[/ame] A separate thread could be dedicated to great ladies of capoeira but here is a favorite of mine - Faisca: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ICbtX61Bow"]Passarinho e Faisca - Movimento Novo 2010 - YouTube[/ame] Great singing voice, and actually one tough lady - if it were me taking a fall like she does at 7:15 I'd be walking out of the roda - none too hastily - nursing my battered tailbone. Now, while I don't particularly mind having conversations exclusively with dormindo - who's obviously cut his teeth on the art and whose calm and restraint I could probably stand to emulate a little more closely - I wouldn't mind hearing non-cap guys chipping in with regards to these videos, both here and in the "Practicality..." thread. Maybe - Heaven forbid! - someone's become convinced to give cap a go and, while I'm not actually looking to convert anyone (hard to believe though it could be ), I'd be greatly pleased to hear about it; any other feedback is welcome as well.
Lot's of great videos, Rand! Too much to do today, so I'll have to join the discussion/post videos tomorrow, but wanted to thank you for the posts. I also wanted to second that I'd love to hear from anyone. paz, dormindo
Hey, no sweat - mostly I'm writing to get this stuff out of my system and have it all laid out nice and orderly in front of me. And there are dozens if not hundreds of cool clips out there that I'd REALLY like to see get more traffic.
Not that I want to hijack this thread completely but while perusing the "Practicality..." thread yet again, I've noticed something Lad_Gorg has said about him reasonably being able to master the entire technical repertoire of cap in around two years if he really applied himself to it. Which is true, up to a point, though I fail to see what precisely is wrong with that - but the techniques that you can see on paper aren't nearly half the story. It's the SITUATIONS which arise within the flow of the game that truly matter - and what truly sets the great capoeiristas apart is their ability to confidently navigate sudden and unexpected turns of events. Something I wanted to stress from personal experience is that it is a thing that stays with you outside the class as well. When something startling happens in my daily course of events, most of the time I'm able to maintain a cool head and come up with a plan to deal with it on the fly. People around me noticed I seem more confident since I've taken up cap and upon reflection I'm inclined to believe them. Now just so we're all clear - I'm not necessarily trying to pick on L_G here. He brought up some points that appear fairly frequently with regards to cap and having the opportunity to answer them in writing is something I'm quite grateful for. But L_G - you could have just asked without the condescension and the snips about "flashy kicks" and such. Oh well, what's been said has been said and I'm glad to leave it at that. Just to show you a technique and the situation - here's vingativa: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYtdDs29MPE"]Escola Regional Capoeira - YouTube[/ame] Simple enough move, right? Rudimentary even. Heck, in my school it's one of the beginner techniques - though I still suck at it something fierce. :cry: But if we start going into set-ups, follow-ups, variations (I could list at least half a dozen of such off the top of my head), counters and counters to counters then quite a bit of complexity suddenly reveals itself. If someone chose to focus exclusively on the vingativa they could build quite a complete game around it - and that's even without throwing supplementary submission holds that some people teach into the bargain. Now, for the situation: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlT7Cp4GoCg"]Capoeira training 4 - YouTube[/ame] I would, naturally, advise you to watch the whole clip - Muzenza is just an awesome group like that. But the bit that interests us starts at 4:25, when the two people trade spinning kicks, one goes for the vingativa, ends up being pressed down and has a tesoura de frente (a variation of leg scissor takedown) applied on her arm. Now here's the thing about TdF, just to put it in context - it hurts like a MOFO when some clueless lug ends up mucking it up and wrenching your knee. Doing it on the arm I could easily see it ending up completely ruining the elbow joint. This is one of the many ways of saying to the other guy "playtime's over, buddy, it's your head I'm after;" hard to convince ANYONE you're just being playful here, and the odds of doing something like that accidentally are so slim as to be practically negligible. And yet, the situation is apparently common enough that it's something worth addressing specifically in training. So, on to the throw that's used to counter it. Is that "traditional" capoeira? Beats me, to be honest. Throws, locks, and chokes are a divisive issue among the cap guys so I mostly just figure that I'm going to learn what I'm shown and let others worry about what came from where. But you will agree that in this particular context this throw makes perfect sense - and if the person doing it then kicked the guy who got thrown in the face I wouldn't blame them one bit. Here we see how a fairly complex situation can develop around a fairly simple technique, how often the context of the game can justify adding "unorthodox" moves, and how - for all its playful character - the game of capoeira can often get quite rough and hostile. Not bad for a beginner move, eh?
I’m stuck In front of the computer far more than I’d like most of these days, and I need to get my capoeira fix any way I can, so expect to see a lot of monster posts from me. By now it should be fairly obvious that the thing about capoeira needing a lot of space to be utilized effectively has about as much truth to it as the thing about boxers breaking their hands as soon as the gloves come off. But in my experience a point could never be made well enough as to not bear repeating. So, without further ado, I present you one of the great capoeira inside players - Mestre Bandeira: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiimg67FkP4"]mestre Bandeira e c.m. Cueca - na roda aberta do grupo Cordao de Ouro - Saint-Petersburg, 2009 - YouTube[/ame] I first heard of Mestre Bandeira from a guy who recommended him to me as one of the few people who could hang in there with Cobra Mansa without being completely overshadowed. Now, I HAVEN'T unfortunately found any clips of the two playing together; which is a shame, since it seems the guy was onto something here. Notice, if you will, just how well Mestre Bandeira moves in and out - one second he's out there throwing spinning kicks, next he's right on top of the guy, sweeping and headbutting like it's going out of style. He's also not particularly shy about using palm strikes and elbows which, as far as I'm concerned, is always good to see. But the clip, while nice, isn't what I really wanted to show you. Here are three clips of him playing whom I assume to be his student - Formado Canguru: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zid19rtwO7k"]Mestre Bandeira e Formado Canguru 1 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP2LPel5kP4"]Mestre Bandeira e Formado Canguru 2 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHbj-mLSIds"]Mestre Bandeira e Formado Canguru 3 - YouTube[/ame] Not much space to work in, is there? And yet neither of them seems to be encumbered in the slightest, pulling off acobatics, spinning kicks, the odd jumping kick and the like - all in a space that is less than most rooms I find myself in while going about my daily chores. Notice again just how well Mestre Bandeira moves and the apparent effortlessness with which he finds himself in advantageous positions. Notice also that while neither of the guys are really trying to hurt each other, Canguru isn't overly deferential to the older capoeirista and seems to make an honest effort at trying to catch him with either a kick or a sweep. Not that Mestre Bandeira is having any of it obviously but still - it's the intent that counts. Mestre Bandeira is one of those guys who claim to make no distinctions between regional and angola ,and he's just about the only one I've seen so far who can actually make the claim stick without coming off like a half-baked mixture of the two. Great guy, for all that he doesn't seem to get much publicity.
Well, you can't talk about the jogo de dentro (inside game), of course, without bringing up Mestre Jog de Dentro, who's known for playing in crazy small rodas (despite his size) like this: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uxCt4J3OXw"]Mestre Jogo de Dentro and Minhoca-II part.Bari 2008 - YouTube[/ame] He also does well in the roda otherwise, as evidenced in these two games with Cobrinha and the third video of him playing at a workshop: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_f4ReZpMY4"]Capoeirando 2009 - Mestre Cobra Mansa e Mestre Jogo de Dentro - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X80T7pQxDhk"]Mestre Cobra Mansa and Mestre Jogo De Dentro - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZCYKdTVzk"]Mestre Jogo De Dentro - YouTube[/ame] Metre Jogo de Dentro, and good capoeiristas, period, have the ability to play inside while being every bit as closed and as mobile as one might think one would be remaining outside. So good to watch the set ups, the traps, the escapes--just good capoeira. paz, dormindo
D'oh, I just noticed that in the post #7 it may look like I'm calling myself a "great capoeirista." I'm not, heck - I'm not even particularly good; though let it be said that I do have my moments, some of which I'm STILL trying as hard as I can to get posted online.
Yeah, dormindo, Mestre Jogo de Dentro is awesome. I STILL regret missing out on a chance to meet him in person during the batizado. Oh well, live and learn. Yet another guy who is worth bringing up with regards to playing close is a student of the great Mestre Bimba - Bira Almeida a.k.a. Mestre Acordeon: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxoLDgbIE8Y"]Lateef Crowder getting second level Professor belt at Capoeira Batuque Batizado pt. 1 - YouTube[/ame] He is the older guy playing first in the above clip. Coincidentally, the guy he is abusing all to heck is one Lateef Crowder, better known as the movie industry's current go-to capoeira practitioner, who is doing a great job of trying to stop Mestre Acordeon from dropping him on his head. Just in case somebody wondered whether or not Lateef is the real deal; yup, he's as real as they get.
You mentioned earlier women who play. There are a number of great angoleiras with really nice games. One of them is Xari, a student of Mestre Joao Grande (who is playing pandeiro and wearing all white in the video). I had the pleasure of playing her myself back in 2009. Here she is playing Prof. Marcelo: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpkCE8P2BYg"]Cenorinha - Prof Marcelo e Xari - YouTube[/ame] Another is Tisza, who's beautiful voice can be heard singing in one of the videos you've already posted from abeiramar's channel. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOX1LqZFoVk"]C.M. Denis e Tisza Coelho Jogo de Angola - YouTube[/ame] Love the malicia/backhand at 1:28 above, the cabecada at 2:10 and how she constantly smiles when she plays (I love the people who smile through the game--it seems as though they're gleefully plotting to set you up). [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swP7L5qZnE"]Tisza e Juju - Movimento Novo 2010 - YouTube[/ame] Love how she keeps checking the other young lady, Juju, with cabecada. I also loves how she gets the music pumped up and going three quarters of the way through, as things had started to sound almost like a funeral dirge (to me). Yet another is, of course, Mestre Paulinha, a student of the well known Mestre Moraes. I used to have access to videos of her in her youth--talk about some fiery games! What I found on YouTube is nice, too. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLc-OKcJSwQ"]Mestre João Pequeno e Mestre Paulinha - YouTube[/ame] Game starts at 1:45 above. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUO48bUuQpQ&feature=related"]Mestre Paulinha e Fabricio - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhwegRGN1T0"]Mestre Paulinha e Miguel - YouTube[/ame] Yet another is Gege, a student of Mestre Cobrinha. Lot's of nice games! Note that all of the people she's playing in the clips I'm posting here are all notorious and skilled angoleir@s in their own right. Gege is the one in the cap in the first clip below, btw. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65HmNKK9ZJo"]Capoeira Angola Workshop - CMestra Susy and Treinel Gege - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naacHX2P054"]FICA DC Rodathon 2009 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zb-4_Y461Y&feature=related"]Gege e itapuã - Roda Piratininga - YouTube[/ame] In the game above, love the chapa de costas at 2:48 and what would have been a nasty throw had she completed it at 3:36. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0S5CDysDY"]Xandão e Gege - Vadiando Entre Amigos 2010 - João Grande - YouTube[/ame] Well, that's enough for now I would think. paz, dormindo
Funny you should mention that; my instructor CONSTANTLY wears an annoying little smirk on his face while playing and you can never say whether it means he's pleased with you, annoyed with you, or - as you said - plotting to dump you on your rear. I once saw him get into a particularly heated exchange during a guest roda and he was smirking all the freaking time which seemed to drive the other guy madder and madder. In retrospect he was probably trying to goad him into doing something stupid but they got broken up beforehand. Nothing like a bit of psychological warfare to liven things up, eh?
Nice to see Lateef in the context of the roda (I'd only ever seen him in films/stunt clips). paz, dormindo
Just noticed that it says "part one" in the title of the clip with Lateef playing. Further investigation (hurm) revealed that there is, indeed, part two: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sbuC0_0JBw"]Lateef Crowder getting second level Professor belt at Capoeira Batuque Batizado pt. 2 - YouTube[/ame] What struck me about both clips is how, for lack of a better term, conservative Lateef's game appears. Oh sure, he still does the odd handstand or cartwheel, and he's not shy about throwing armadas and meia luas but for the most part he seems content to keep his feet on the ground. Just goes to show there's more than one way to skin the cat. Funnily enough it's even less flashy than his choreography in what must have been, to date, his best showing - Undisputed 3: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rM9NRjyHRo"]Undisputed 3 Redemption - Fight 1 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB_zhLZk_-c"]Undisputed 3 Redemption - Fight 5 - YouTube[/ame] And I actually thought it did a fairly good job of portraying how I would expect a "fighting" capoeirista to look like. So even capoeira can be exaggerated for entertainment's sake. Fancy that, huh? (And before someone asks - yes, I wanted to post these clips here for a looong time. Those five minutes of footage total did a better job of portraying capoeira than "Only the Strong" did in two hours - and yet the latter is still the one most people remeber. :bang: )
Contra Mestre Cabello, student of Mestre Joao Grande is another one I enjoy to watch. What I love about Cabello is his mobility--he gets all over the place. He also is great at delivering an attack and getting out of there in the same moment. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQTr_XuHGA"]Mestre Cabello e Gato Félix - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnXg685tmk4"]Mestre Cobra Mansa e Mestre Cabello - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITDsrpavZYE"]Mestre Cabello & Itapuã - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8OocZkxOH8"]jogo do m. cabello e gaviao - YouTube[/ame] paz, dormindo
Oh, I know the gentleman in question. And yes, he is a great one ot watch. There's one more clip that's... interesting: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMdafMS9ar4"]Mestre Glauber vs Mestre Cabello - SXM batizado 2007 - YouTube[/ame] YIKES!:wow:
Just curious, dorimndo, is Cabello a Contra Mestre still or has he already become a Mestre in his own right? The titles of the clips are a bit of a mess in that regard. Meh, whatever, still an amazing gent. The first clip - with Mestre Cabello playing one Gato Felix - has reminded me of a brilliant game I've seen by the latter, with him playing Mestre Camaleao from, if memory serves, grupo Filhos de Angola: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qwLjYxuOo"]Mestre Camaleão e Gato Félix - YouTube[/ame] (Yet another clip that comes from abeiramar's channel. Not only is he a brilliant practitioner - in case someone hasn't put the facts together he's Jorge Itapua from numerous clips that have been shown here already - but the videos he posts are each and every one quality stuff; even if this particular clip could stand to be a little bit cleaner.) Notice yet again that for all their playfulness (I know I use this word a lot but that's what capoeira is most of the time - a game to be played and enjoyed), neither of the guys have any qualms about roughing each other up a little. Notice also just how adept they are at dealing with tangles and how each successful takedown produces big cheers from the audience. When people talk about "the game" and "the fight" being intertwined in capoeira this is what they mean - you can go as hard as you like and if you can shake hands and still be friends afterwards it's all good.
Rand, he was officially made a Contra Mestre at the event in the video below, as the video's description denotes. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRtGuWdceks&feature=channel_video_title"]CM Cabello e CM Jurandir - YouTube[/ame] paz, dormindo
Here's a video that my friend sent me yesterday: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfLAntx8TA"]Mestre Ratto and Professor Espirito Forte - CECAB Festival 2011 - YouTube[/ame] I'm trying to think of something at least remotely intelligent to say here but every time I watch this clip my brain just shuts down and I end up staring at the screen with my mouth wide open.
