Capoeira is not only a martial art, a dance and a game. It comes along with its cultural background, which developed in the Afrobrazilian circles of Brazil and spread all over the world. It’s like HipHop, or like Yoga. It left it’s national and cultural boundaries and spread to places where some parts of it’s culture [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Philosophy’
October 13, 2008
Respect Your Berimbau!
The first time I heard and saw the Berimbau, I was amazed. Some other people were not used to its sound and did not understand it. And while learning more about Capoeira, a student does understand that having a Berimbau and learning how to play it and that listening to the sounds and the orders of [...]
September 12, 2008
Spot the mistake
Or: A painful lesson in malicia
The first time I have seen this video I thought, yep, this clip will make a big round in the web and people will start discussing about how effective Capoeira is in a fight or not. I don’t think that people who dont know much about Capoeira should judge [...]
June 18, 2008
What is Mandinga?
There are a lot of different words in Capoeira which do have an own meaning in the Capoeira world. I am not talking about movements and their names, which are anyway different from group to group. I am more talking about conceptual words. These words make up the basic elements of Capoeira Philosophy. Just to [...]
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 [...]
