What is capoeira?

Once, I asked his little pastant "What is capoeira?" And he, a respected old master, was silent, turning his soul. Then he answered calmly and in the form of a litany: "Capoeira is a game, it is a toy, it is to respect the fear, it is to dose well the courage. It is a fight, it is the wind in the sailboat, it is a bumpy body, it is a well -touched berimbau, it is the laughter of a little boy. Choir is to feel all the taste of danger in the mouth, it is smiling at the enemy and squeezing your hand.