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White shirt, red tie and cummerbund, knee breeches and stockings, with a decorated short jacket are a traditional 18th century style of costume worn by two of this team of eight forcados (bull tacklers) who are participants of the ritualized Portuguese-American form of bloodless bullfighting. Seven men have lined up behind this man in the blue cap who is the capo (leader). He is enticing the bull to charge him and firmly holds his jacket to keep his arms from moving upward as he prepares to perform the first movement of the pega (tackling). A fighting bull lowers its head when charging but if it saw any upward motion of the man's arms it would follow the movement and raise its head (and horns) into the man's upper body. This man will be attempting to take the impact of the bull's charge in his midsection as he goes over the animal's head and grabs hold of its neck, trying to hang on while the other forcados help to subdue the bull.
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