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CAPOEIRA CHOREOGRAPHY FOR SHOWS

CAPOEIRA CHOREOGRAPHY Creating a Capoeira show is only limited by your imagination. Regardless your limitations, there is always a way of being able to do something that will make an impact. So many people worry about getting the best tricks, or focusing on showing ‘something that has never been done before’. From my experience, it [...] [...more]

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CHAN’S DEMO VIDEO

hey everyone, Just thought I would post my demonstration video. It is just a compilation of things I have been working on for the past couple of years. I have been training lots of other styles of martial arts which has been hugely beneficial for my movement capabilities and ideology. However, Capoeira has and always will be my [...] [...more]

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Nuba wrestling

African combat games can be categorized into the following: wrestling, hand fighting, kicking, headbutting and weaponary. So we are going to start of with Nubian Wrestling, a close range fighting system. Nubian wrestling is considered one of, if not the oldest martial arts recorded in history. Popularity: 82% [?] [...more]

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Intentions in Capoeira

Sensing Intention How do you know whether a person wants to harm you or not? When does the game turn from a game into a fight? Where do people’s true intentions lie? Popularity: 35% [?] [...more]

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HOW TO MAKE A CAXIXI

This is a way I was taught on how to make a caxixi. I am by no means a professional, but at least this is one way, and you can develop/discover other ways from here. Or simply ask your Capoeira instructor how! Popularity: 39% [?] [...more]

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MARTIAL ARTS CREED

Sifu Francis Fong, Guro Dan Inosanto, Ajarn Surachai “Chai” Sirisute. These are some beautiful writings inscripted on the walls of Guro Dan Inosanto’s Academy in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles. Guro Dan Inosanto is one of the most amazing, inspiring Martial Artists I have ever known. If you ever get the chance I would highly [...] [...more]

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BAHIA- THE BAY OF ALL SAINTS

12th of Jan 2002 It is in your eyes beloved Bahia, The sandy scent of scarlet streets the cobble stoned winding curves caressing glinted glances of coloured heat Popularity: 11% [?] [...more]

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Dias Gomes- Capoeira the artist, the athlete, the poet

This is a quote that was pinned up in Mestre Moraes’s Academy when I was visiting Bahia in 2001-2002. I thought it was particularly beautiful. Popularity: 12% [?] [...more]

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AWARENESS and MALANDRAGEM

Awareness is something that needs constant maintenance. Sometimes I feel myself stopping in the middle of the day, ‘waking up’ and asking myself, what have I been doing today? and I find it really hard to remember. I never seem to be able to catch up with the world. Regardless of how much I try [...] [...more]

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A CAPOEIRA CLASS WITH MESTRE BAMBA

monday 9th/2/04 Today I survived one of the scarest classes of my life. Without a doubt, just one of the many to come. Popularity: 16% [?] [...more]

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