Last Sunday, Caminante teamed up with Hotel Zapata's first "GIVE.SWEAT" weekend. For their final activity the guests and their awesome trainer Gerren Liles invited the Niños Trabajadores for an afternoon of Capoeira and BBQ!
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| Gerren & Rob explaining the history of Capoeira |
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| Warming Up & practicing watching your partner! |
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| Push Ups in the sand are challenging! |
Capoeira is a form of martial arts created by Brazillian slaves to prepare for battle against their slave owners. To keep their owners from realizing what they were doing the Brazillian slaves practiced with very determined and precise dance like movements. They also practiced in circles while singing songs so that everyone could watch and train together.
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| Rob and Gerren demonstrating Capoeira kicks. |
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| So focused! |
While my immediate thought was, oh no, teaching a group of very active boys martial arts is not going to go over well... the boys did amazing and Capoeira required them to really focus and make slow precise movements!
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| Playing Games during the BBQ! |
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| Rob getting his late afternoon work out in... |
The boys, Zapata and Caminante staff, and the GIVE.SWEAT participants had an amazing afternoon together and rewarded themselves afterwards with a delicious BBQ! Dancing and adult beverages were enjoyed by all (after the boys went home, of course) after a GIVE.SWEAT afternoon on the sunny beach!
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| GIVE.SWEAT Team & Ninos Trabajadores |
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| Grill Master |
A special thanks to Hotel Zapata, Cristina Marques Hendel and Rob Zapata for making it a great activity!
Sounds like it was a successful event, Ashley! So funny, I was just talking to my friends who is in Brazil right now and he wants to learn Capoeira. Nice.
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