…Capoeira de Angola é devagar!
The aim of this post is to highlight an important, but often overseen aspect of Capoeira Angola. I myself do oversee it far too often and while I was thinking about it the idea came up to make a blogpost out of it. The aspect of Capoeira Angola I want to [...]
Some of those who know my blog might know the title of this post, at least its first part. Most things to know about surviving a capoeira angola roda were already posted in one of my first posts. Today’s post is about a certain aspect of a Capoeira Angola game. But this aspect is also [...]
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 [...]
or: Visiting an unknown group/Roda…
Let’s face it. Most of the time a Capoeirista does spend his time with Capoeiristas he knows. He plays in Rodas where he knows the rules. Most of the time, we spend or time in our groups. That is where we are most secure and thus, most confident. Even when we go [...]
A little test by the side: You are playing Capoeira in a Roda. Your partner in this circle is better than you are, which is – per se – nothing bad. At some point he does turn his upper body and your inner eye already sees the leg speeding towards you head, so you move [...]
Capoeira is, as you people might have heard a lot, a conversation (among other things). And in Capoeira Angola this is even more true than in other forms. With this post I won’t go into the technical play itself, because that is something everybody learns, when he is training Capoeira. I want to put the [...]
This topic is quite difficult to handle, because it is about things which are hard to explain or to grasp rationally. It is about beauty. You hear a lot of people say that this or that game in a Capoeira Roda was expecially cool, exciting or beautiful. And we should all know that when you [...]
Before I start telling you things about the Chamada I have to explain why I am doing it.
In the last few years I have seen many Capoeiristas, students learning Capoeira Regional, Contemporeana AND Angola, being quite surprised when the other one lifted his hands to the Chamada. Most of them usually did not know how [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
