u/DugganSC

I basically started my capoeira journey with the ASCAB school in Philadelphia. I now live in Pittsburgh, where almost all of the groups have been Angola. I am planning to attend the batizado in Philly in about 2 weeks. My memories of playing with them was that they had a very mixed game, a lot of fast spinning kicks and acrobatics, but also tesoura de Angola and chamadas. I'm not really worried about proving myself to anyone, but it also like to not stink up the place, and I'm a bit worried that I will wind up in a rapid kick exchange and just not really have a good way to respond. My group does tend to play a little bit more slowly and deliberately as a whole. I don't really have anyone to practice with at home. What kind of things can I drill to try to put myself in the best position?

Curious if anyone else is running into this. Lately, my Pixel 4a has started to overheat. It was understandable when I had it in the phone holder above my steering wheel, as I found my card is not air conditioning that area very well. But weirdly, I'm getting it more often when I am using the rear camera on my phone (the one on the back of the phone). I'm not experiencing that issue when using the front / selfie camera on the phone. I did get the battery replacement that Google did last year due to their firmware change causing battery life to plummet. Has something else changed recently?

I had this pop up in my "Shows You Might Enjoy" on Netflix. So far, only ten episodes, but there are some nice ones like "Goodbye, Mr. Hooper".

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After a decade or so of playing Capoeira (but really kind of only once a week for the most part), I'm good enough to hold my own against people at the intermediate level and at least make things look fun if they cooperate with people at expert levels, but one area where I feel like I fall short is playing against beginners. I've been improving on the not springing gotcha moments on them when they leave themselves open, but throwing those slow and telegraphed kicks seems to lead to so many snapped response attacks to the inner thigh or groin... And I know that this probably is revealing weaknesses in my practical Capoeira in that I expect people to only go after the "valid" targets, but I can't seem to find a balance between "play in a way that gives them an opportunity to attack" and "play conservatively enough that I don't get hit with panic kicks".

My son saw a book of Daniel Tiger's 5 Minute Stories at the library with an option for having them read to you by an electronic speaker embedded in the cover. It seemed like an interesting idea, an audiobook paired with words on the page so that he can hear the words while reading them. Except... there's no way to go directly to a story, so unless you go through the whole book all at once (an hour of stories assuming the narration really is 5 minutes), you're going to spend a lot of time skipping pages when you power it up again to get to where you left off. Also, the narrator uses random notes whenever he hits a song in the story (most stories have 1-3 songs in them). And lastly, I'm pretty sure the narrator was not given the text of the story in question, as he uses different words at times. And, rather bizarrely, he apparently has something against the word, "toots", because when Miss Elaina shows up, he simply omits that word every time.