Blog Post for dendearts.com
Can you be too fat for capoeira? Probably the most physically-demanding activity I could possibly consider (other than ballet) and I think I'm too fat to do it. I'm not obese nor do I lack the motor-skills to reach different cervices on my body, but yet, I feel like I way too much to do this art probably. I'm a capoeira instructor, in a new location, and lack the ability to attending weekly classes. I teach them myself, but recent weather-related incidents have prevents my class from being taught. I'm on my own. This is the struggle for a lot of instructors (in what I imagine in anything) is that they have to rely on themselves to get better. No students, no peers- just you and an empty space. I have movements when controlling my body weight is effortless, but the majority of the moves that continues to mystify me still seem impossible. Impossible in the sense that joints would pop, and bones would snap if I attempted the movements enough times required to do them