Life in a Day - Rasganço (Portugal)

The "Rasganço" (Ripping) is an ancient tradition with more than 700 years old and it's performed only by the senior students in their last year of the University of Coimbra.

This tradition represents the end of the life as a student.
The student's uniform is ripped to shreds by their closest friends.
They are now ready to be productive members of society and start looking for a job!


Students: Lúcia Silva and Joana Silva.

Produced and shot on the 24th of July by: Paulo Fajardo & Gonçalo Ermida.

Spoken language: Portuguese.

Notes: Everybody in this video agreed to be in it. The footage and sound were compressed for the upload. The songs performed by the "Tuna Mondeguinas" group are freely adapted from popular Portuguese music.

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[Excecutioner147]

great tradition, looks like poeple enjoy it.......do you have any footage just before the ripping starts

[PCFajardo]

@Excecutioner147

Yes I have... we recorded about 3h of phootage that day!

[Excecutioner147]

@PCFajardo can we see some of that footage as well?

[PCFajardo]

@Excecutioner147

Who do you represent and what's your interest in the footage?

[Excecutioner147]

@PCFajardo represent??? i dont represent anything...a football team maybe lol.....my interest is that where i'm from we have a sim tradition where we break something thats important to show the start of a new chapter, theres a speech, a few other silly little thing we do, some dancing etc etc etc......so just interested....nice to know we're not the only ones who have these little qurks......thanks for your time.

[PCFajardo]

@Excecutioner147

OK, no problem. This footage and the other footage that we colected will be assembled in a documentary about the subject.

In 2011 the rest of the footage will be uploaded.

All the best.

[123mrresidentevil]

WHY DON'T WE HAVE A TRADITION LIKE THIS HERE IN DA US

[maryvsc]

Olá

Mondeguinas e não Mondeguinhas.

Cumprimentos

[Excecutioner147]

@PCFajardo can we see some of that as well? give us a better idea how things get started, is there a party before? a tradional speech? etc etc.....thnaks for the footage