[Dynasty1]

Originally Posted by stu3ufc

hows home life dyn

You adjusted back home

everythings great, i love sleeping in my bed, driving my car, being in my house, its good man, im happy im here

the first week was a lil rough cuz i couldnt stop saying thank you in portugues like at restaurants and whatever, and every once and awhile even now, ill blurt out some stuff without realizing

[Dynasty1]

Originally Posted by TheLionTamer

are you gonna end up training at huntington beach with chute boxe us?

yeah for sure man...thats the next step in all this..should be great ive seen the gym, looks like its in a real good area, should be a good change for me..ill be able to have my life here, and be able to train, which will be a welcome change

[Dynasty1]

Originally Posted by stu3ufc

Is that cos u went over your 6 months tourist visa --What happened--did you get fined--How long are you banned from brasil for


let me know

well i stayed past my 6 months, way past...so when i went to leave from sao paulo to go to new york, when i went to the federal police who check your passport, they stopped me, asked me why i had stayed, i told them, and he was real cool about it..and told me when i come back i have to pay a fine of 800 reais, and i have to wait one year before i can go back...could be worse, so im not too upset about it

[stu3ufc]

Originally Posted by Dynasty1

well i stayed past my 6 months, way past...so when i went to leave from sao paulo to go to new york, when i went to the federal police who check your passport, they stopped me, asked me why i had stayed, i told them, and he was real cool about it..and told me when i come back i have to pay a fine of 800 reais, and i have to wait one year before i can go back...could be worse, so im not too upset about it

damn about $500 that sucks

[stu3ufc]

Originally Posted by Dynasty1

everythings great, i love sleeping in my bed, driving my car, being in my house, its good man, im happy im here

the first week was a lil rough cuz i couldnt stop saying thank you in portugues like at restaurants and whatever, and every once and awhile even now, ill blurt out some stuff without realizing

ROFL --withdrawl symtoms

and you miss guys welcoming you with a handshake and smiles......and girls kissing you on your cheek and there not bitchey at all

[Killed by Death]

how much potuguese did you know before you got to brazil?

did you have to practice it alot, or does it just come naturally from being there?

[cheath]

Wow, I just read all 78 pages of this thread! Mostly I looked at Dyn's posts, but I read about half the others. Wheew!

Seeing the last couple pages of this thread peaked my curiosity on what it would be like to do something like this. I started looking around the internet at other resources, other people's adventures, Brazil camps, etc. etc. My interest then crossed into an obsession yesterday when I decided to read all 78 pages!

I'm now considering taking Portugese next school year (fall '09/spring '10) and saving the money to do something like this for about 4-6 weeks in the summer of 2010. Hopefully before then I can sneak in a couple shorter camps, but this would be such an amazing life experience!

Dynasty, you've inspired me bro! I even found a nice camp by Felipe Costa (BBB-Brazilian Black Belt) right by the beach in Rio that I'm considering! Brasa I think it is.

[Team Dragonfire]

brasa camp is wonderful. ive heard amazing things about it and anywhere that's sported the coaches that they do must be a blast.

[edo]

just finally caught up with this thread, great information you should really put it into a book of sorts, at minimal just for yourself.

Makes me want to visit brazil.

[codysweet02]

Hey Dynasty, i was wondering if you knew much about what the jails, not prisons, are like in Brazil? I watched the movie Carandiru, about the prison that got shut down in Sao Paulo. And have also been watching Locked up Abroad. It shows the prisons of a lot of South American countries. It showed a local jail(not prison) in Venezuela and what they showed was terrible. Two brits got locked up and the cell was a 6 man cell with 20 people in it. The brits had their cloths stolen, beat up, slept on the floor, etc. etc. Obviously this could have been for the shock value to get viewers, and may not have been 100% accurate.

It made me wonder what happens when you get locked up in Brazil for say public fighting or urinating in public or something like this? Obviously prisons are bad everywhere in the world, but what is it like if you get locked up for a night, or few days, in the local jail? In California you get thrown in teh drunk tank with a bunch of other drunks and sleep it off for a 6 hours or so. No one gets robbed/beat up really because you are seperate from the people who are getting ready to be transfered to prison or other violent offenders.

I was just curious because im sure hundereds of tourists get locked up overnight for stupid shit every year in South America. You got any info or stories about what it is like to be a tourist and get locked up for something minor for a day or so? Are the local jails where they hold the drunks as bad as what i saw on the show about Venezuela?