Mestre Bimba

heres a quick deviation from volume 1 of capoeira to a short storie from volume 2.

“…the argument over the blow, said to be illegal, angered people who’d bet against Mestre Bimba. One of them, Mr. Lúcio de Tal, nicknamed Barra Preta, was so furious about the “injustice” (and the money he’d lost) that he organized an ambush at Engenho  Velho by the Ladeira da Vila América. Mestre Bimba was returningfrom a liason with a local beauty late one dark night in the area of the Ciriaco Candomblé house when he was attacked by seven me, including Mr. Lúcio (carrying a gun, and no less than six police officers armed with sabers. He dumped Lúcio into a garbage container after disarming him, and knocked all the soldiers senseless. According to Angelo Decâni, Mestre Bimba cooly collected the various weapons and hopped on his streetcar, without dropping the straw hat he’d had under his arm.”

-Gerard Taylor (Capoeira: The jogo de angola from luanda to cyberspace Vol. 2)