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There are actually many more of these that I’ve found, but I didn’t want to list 400 of them. I decided to pick the ones I thought were the best (for whatever reason) and give us a good chuckle.

1. Sometimes you just get this urge to be upside down.
2. People stare at you on the street for playing the “air berimbau.”
3. You have memorized the lines to Only the Strong.
4. You hear Mark Dacascos say the line “This time, I don’t play.” and you start laughing no matter how many thousands of times you’ve heard it. (And this applies to anyone doing the imitation as well!)
5. Every time you get up from a fall or sitting on the ground, you negativa and right yourself in a role.
6. Everytime you see a Mazda comercial you feel compelled to complete the line with “…Capoeira mata um!!!”
7. You constantly check to see if the white pants a random person on the street is wearing are capoeira pants.
8. Every article of clothing you buy generates the question, “Can I play capoeira in this?”
9. When trying on new pants, you perform kicks to ensure that there is sufficient crotch room for martelos and armadas.
10. All your hard drive space is used up because all of the capoeira pics and videos.
11. You can remove everything you have in all your pockets in one movement.
12. People wonder why you have a bow and arrow/fishing pole/bong in public places.
13. Anytime you see an open grassy area you get an insatiable urge to ginga and do floreio.
14. You walk around bare-foot to “toughen up your feet”
15. During the one hour of boredom when you can’t do capoeira, you surf the internet for sites like this one!

Man it feels good to be a capoeirista.