Boneco is one of the heads of "capoeiral brasil" and touts himself as quite the stud. He's got magazine covers with himself on it and some brasilian film credits and so forth, but having met him I always wanted to ask a Brasilian if he really was a "name on the street" or if he was just on the covers of small local publications who had no news to print.

Yeah, Mindinho went to capoeira for the first time as a young kid, to hit on a girl. His first class was her last class, so that didn't work out, but he fell in love with the game. But he was about 12 years old with a bunch of adults, so they called him "pinky." And now 15 years later he could kick my butt 12 ways from tuesday but I still get to call him pinky