I used to think the best riders of Brazil lived somewhere out in the state of Goiás (local Texas), wearing jeans, plaid shirts, and wide-brimmed hats. You know, driving through a town like Interlândia, you almost always spot a few of them riding horses along the roadside.

Turns out I was wrong.

The most relentless rider I've ever met – riding bareback, of course, – was right in the middle of the city of São Paulo.

And he was wearing a baseball cap.

He rode me into the ground.

For well over an hour, he squeezed every last drop of energy out of me.

The video ended up so long that I had to split it into two parts.

Today, Part One: where we get started and warm things up with Edgar @only_edgarr