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A black-and-white photo of a person mid-air in a Superman-style body suspension pose, supported by multiple hooks in their back and legs, smiling joyfully toward the camera. They are suspended horizontally in a large indoor space with high ceilings and visible rigging. A group of onlookers—some seated, some standing—watch with expressions of admiration, amusement, and support. The atmosphere is lively and communal, capturing a moment of shared experience and transformation.

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Walk like a Brazilian

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RooRaaah Crumbs

I refuse to make any fruity jokes, there’s a time and a place..

You’ll understand what I mean after you’ve watched this beautiful clip of Alexandre performing a Kavadi bearing in Brazil.

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DivX download link for BME members: Extreme2 or Full members

[Editor’s note: we’ve added a kavadi category to ModBlog and of course there are also the kavadi photo galleries and kavadi stories, which include the story of this kavadi bearing, on BME]

Comments

11 responses to “Walk like a Brazilian”

  1. Leroy Avatar
    Leroy

    I can see Kavadi listed under the post’s title, but on the left-side, it’s not under the category section.

  2. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar
    RooRaaah Crumbs

    Leroy – It’s a subcategory of Ritual in the same way that Faces is a subcategory of Tattoos.

  3. Ego Kornus Avatar
    Ego Kornus

    Nice video i was suprissed with the music.
    For Iam’ers here is IAM Kavadiforum for kavadirelated questions.

  4. Leroy Avatar
    Leroy

    Ah, ok thanks. 🙂

  5. Ego Kornus Avatar
    Ego Kornus

    Iam Kavadi

  6. kaylee Avatar
    kaylee

    nice music

  7. Tommy Avatar
    Tommy

    Pecoooo! 😀

    Saudades!

  8. PeCo Avatar
    PeCo

    IAM Happy to shared this here too…thanks Roo to link here. 🙂

  9. jlandby Avatar
    jlandby

    Beautiful, didn’t have music, but it looked very good.

  10. RooRaaah Crumbs Avatar
    RooRaaah Crumbs

    Jlandby – There is music, make sure the volume slider is up in the video window.

    PeCo – My pleasure!

  11. T. Angel Avatar
    T. Angel

    It’s really beautiful.

    Peco <3

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