Latest Capoeira Podcast Episodes
Recycle Your Creativity
Only The Strongest - January 17, 2023 00:40 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe retry some things we didn't do so well before. Some talk of how best to train au, and lots of talk about how to keep your au from getting stale.
What We Lose in Portuguese, We Gain in Japanese - OTS x For the Love of Language
Only The Strongest - December 19, 2022 22:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe podcast For the Love of Language joins us for a special crossover mashup episode. They school us on how to make learning Portuguese easier, how oral history impacts capoeira, and whether it's cool to sing songs that aren't in Portuguese. Stacie and EJ are both linguists, capoeiristas, form...
I Only Accept Perfection And Perfection Does Not Exist
Only The Strongest - December 05, 2022 16:36 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsFor students, the secret strategies by which your teacher tests your loyalty. For teachers, our top tips to ensure that you never sign up another student.
Sacred Kicks And Arthritic Aus
Only The Strongest - November 21, 2022 17:54 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe talk starting capoeira when you're past your salad days and how to achieve a few age-appropriate acrobatics. Then we move along to discussing what is sacred in capoeira. Everyone's answer is a little bit different, but why does it have to cause so much strife?
A Banana For Your Banana Tree
Only The Strongest - November 07, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 12 ratingsLotta stuff today. Bonzinho creates a handstand protocol for Varal to follow. Azul buys the game and declines to play when injured. Varal learns how to fight even when he doesn't have a tambourine. The Bonz protocol for all you handstanders (rest at least 1 min in between each): 1 min - regu...
Capoeira As Religion - Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Roda
Only The Strongest - October 24, 2022 16:58 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsAzul quizzes Bonzinho and Varal about their spiritual beliefs. Do you have to be spiritual to train capoeira? Does training capoeira make you spiritual? Why does Azul remember a handspin in LA in 2012 more clearly than the births of her children? Plus, a quick update on cannibalism.
Whistling And With Sticks - The Murky Origins Of Capoeira
Only The Strongest - October 10, 2022 17:56 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 12 ratingsVaral's book https://www.amazon.com/Capoeira-Guidebook-Investigations-Philosophy-Afro-Brazilian/dp/1523827386 Varal steps up to the lectern to talk about where capoeira comes from, why whistling is gang behavior, and why we can't decide whether capoeira even comes from Brazil.
The Ghost In Bonzinho's Basement - AMA Episode
Only The Strongest - September 26, 2022 17:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 12 ratingsAsk Me Anything! You had questions, we have answers.
A Gold Medal In Ethics And Elasticity
Only The Strongest - September 12, 2022 13:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsHere's the video (not required viewing, but still interesting). https://youtu.be/lkkJT04WBRo?t=1868 We're back! After a refreshing summer break we're ready to bloviate about capoeira once again. Today we're talking competitions and the sort of capoeira they promote. Azul thinks the games lack ...
Summer Break
Only The Strongest - August 09, 2022 15:11 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 12 ratingsWe've decided to embrace the sunga life and we'll be out for a little while. Back in a few weeks in early or mid September!
R-E-S-P-E-C-T That Spells Gatekeeping
Only The Strongest - July 25, 2022 21:10 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsFind out what capoeira means today, and where it's at re self-respect, money, and gatekeeping. Bonzinho says no more music in capoeira, ever. Varal says there's more Portuguese in capoeira than jiujitsu. Azul respects the shit out of herself, and capoeira, and you too.
Bolster Your Bolsonaro Knowledge
Only The Strongest - July 11, 2022 16:50 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsOur guide to the upcoming Brazilian 2022 election. All the madness of a US election but with that Brazilian twist. Fake investigations, real investigations, fake elections, real elections, fake covid, real peacock attacks...the list goes on.
It's An Unpopularity Contest (w/ Quebra Nos)
Only The Strongest - June 28, 2022 18:17 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsOur friend and special guest Quebra Nos joins us to air some unpopular opinions. We debate whether teachers matter, if capoeira should have even more subdivisions, whose fault it is when you don't play at the batizado, and whether Bimba's sequences are still relevant.
We Tune You Up For The Low Price Of 9.99
Only The Strongest - June 13, 2022 15:41 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsAll tunes all day today. Azul gives us a crash course on learning to sing and play the instruments (even if you fear and loath the music, like Varal). Then we hash out the top 3 best and worst capoeira songs. Spoiler: stop singing O Sim Sim Sim. Send It with OTS https://open.spotify.com/pla...
Everything You Wanted To Know About Music But Were Too Tone-Deaf To Ask
Only The Strongest - June 13, 2022 15:41 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsAll tunes all day today. Azul gives us a crash course on learning to sing and play the instruments (even if you fear and loath the music, like Varal). Then we hash out the top 3 best and worst capoeira songs. Spoiler: stop singing O Sim Sim Sim. Send It with OTS https://open.spotify.com/pla...
The Wandering Samurai Studio
Only The Strongest - May 30, 2022 16:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsAzul and Bonzinho are opening a studio! Their studio in Parker, CO opens in June 2022. We talk about their hopes and dreams, their lack of affiliation, whether their students will wear cords, their controversial motto, and what the heck is a ronin anyhow. https://ronincapoeira.com
Fairness Is (Not) A Dirty Word In Capoeira (HTWAR)
Only The Strongest - May 16, 2022 15:51 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingshttps://youtu.be/h0OfP6wqeLU How To Watch A Roda returns. A dense game that seems to have just about everything. Attacks, counterattacks, playfulness, malicia, fairness, and even a little dash of positive gender dynamics. Help us answer the question all of capoeira youtube is asking: what's he...
Old Capoeiristas Yell At Cloud
Only The Strongest - May 02, 2022 15:35 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsTo keep the universe in balance, we're complimenting our previous episode about beginners with one about creaky knees and incontinence. We ponder the idea of aging gracefully in capoeira, and try to grow out of the desire to look cool. It's gotta happen sometime, and that time is when Azul wave...
Your First Day Of Capoeira Class
Only The Strongest - April 18, 2022 15:26 - 53 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsEverything you need to know to get started in capoeira. How to find classes, what to expect when you show up, how to make friends and destroy enemies, etc. Bonzinho optimistically suggests trying a couple different studios in your area, Azul is confident the community will support you, and Vara...
A Rollercoaster Of Joy, Despair, And Legal Problems In An Intro Class
Only The Strongest - April 04, 2022 16:34 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsToday we run through an intro workshop that Varal taught to a group of bright-eyed, enthusiastic college kids and how it made him grumpy. Turns out having no instruments is cool, but bloody injuries aren't. Luckily college kids have no legal framework and they never even thought to sue. Plus, a...
Capoeira Couldn't Sell Out Even If It Wanted To
Only The Strongest - March 20, 2022 20:36 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsBonzinho leads the discussion today by posing the question: what does capoeira have in common with other previously-fringe sports like skateboarding or yoga, and why did those go mainstream while capoeira has languished in obscurity? Azul says the hierarchy ain't helping so let's get rid of it, ...
The One Where Bonzinho Declines Some Juicy Fruit
Only The Strongest - March 07, 2022 20:48 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsVaral taught a workshop where he talked too much. Azul got lazy and fell into a tesoura de costa. Bonzinho assessed where he is in capoeira and discovered that he's not an ogre.
If Capoeira Is A Conversation, Should I Monologue?
Only The Strongest - February 21, 2022 13:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsFollowing up on our last episode, does your teacher believe capoeira is about conversation or about domination (if we're being reductive enough to say those are the only options)? We debate some tells that let you know whether your instructor is training you to reduce your opponent's mobilizati...
No Safe Words In Capoeira
Only The Strongest - February 07, 2022 16:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsIt's a simple question - is capoeira a conversation? https://www.capomaha.com/capoeira-angola-a-primer-for-beginners
New Year's Resolutions (Fortified With Crowdsourcing!)
Only The Strongest - January 24, 2022 17:09 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsOur feeble minds can't be holding up this podcast all day long, so we thought we'd take a look at what our listeners have planned for 2022. What goals do we all have? Can we somehow take your dreams and aspirations and then distill them down into a 45 minute podcast with a few fart jokes?
Organic Monkey Violence
Only The Strongest - January 10, 2022 18:40 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsFor next episode: https://forms.gle/yaoUeaV7AvVQjdEi8 Varal says why not do a deep dive on the misunderstood nature of testosterone? Then we work back over to capoeira to, in our amateur way, diagnose the best medicine for capoeira's reform in this year of our lord 2022.
You're History! - OTS x Singing for Survival Ultimate Mashup
Only The Strongest - December 13, 2021 15:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsSpecial guest and host of the Singing for Survival podcast Desconfiado joins us to talk history. We subject him to our many interruptions and bad jokes, but he graciously plows on to help us understand why the history of capoeira is important to the capoeira of today, how it can helps current gr...
Shirts Not Recommended - Demos And Shows
Only The Strongest - November 29, 2021 15:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsA rundown of some ideas on running down your best demos and show (supplemental videos below). Varal and Bonzinho have a few things to say here and there, but Azul takes the reins in her teeth and is off to the races. She touches on organization, choreography, audience participation, and plenty...
Professionalism Goes Up, Assaults Go Down?
Only The Strongest - November 15, 2021 22:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsFirst off, Azul's got some problems with armada. Harking back to our early episodes, Bonzinho and Varal try to offer some helpful advice on doing the move. Then, in a frenzy of meta whatever whatever, our podcast recounts some ideas from another podcast about practical, usable changes capoeira...
Halloweira Tres - The Strongening
Only The Strongest - October 31, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 12 ratingsThe pale disc of the harvest moon rises, outlining the trees' bare, skeletal branches. Your footsteps on the sidewalk echo out into the darkness and you hunch your shoulders against the bitter wind. I thought they said the roda was on this block, you think to yourself, scanning left and right....