Yeah, I gotta admit, I love MC Hammer. Makes me remember the good ol’ times when I was young and innocent Actually, this post won’t be something about 90’s hiphop, dont worry, it is still something about Capoeira. It came up when I was reading an interview with Mestre Waldemar on the more than recommendable [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 12, 2008
Lessons in self-control – The Roda
This topic is roaming my mind since a couple of weeks. I’ll tell you the story behind it. In one of the groups I am training in we have this really promising guy, who is just a beginner yet, but crazy as hell when he gets into the Roda. He has not developed a nice [...]
March 10, 2008
Modern Malandragem – or: should we take lessons from thugs?
Manduca da Praia, murderer of 27 people, hired muscle for a lot of politicians, feared by police and criminals in mid-19th century Rio. He was a Capoeirista. Besouro Manganga, got into fights with the police regularly. Usually just beat them up and did sent them back to the police station. Or went there personally to [...]
March 6, 2008
Capoeira Culture in ‘the Diaspora’
Until a couple of months ago I heard only once or twice about events about capoeira, which neither workshops nor batizados, but Cultural Events. Then I heard of the 1. Capoeira Film Festival which was organized in Amsterdam in the beginning of this year. When I heard of this I was immediately intrigued.
The day I heard about the film [...]
March 3, 2008
Surviving a Capoeira Angola Roda
This might be of high interest for all of you people who want to try playing Capoeira Angola in a Roda de Capoeira Angola. The reason I start this topic is because I have seen a couple of people who usually train Capoeira Contemporeana and then end up being very frustrated in a Capoeira Angola [...]
