What’s up everybody, today we are having the pleasure of interviewing a capoeirista with personal training, with Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu experience. and he is also in Charge of the classes of the group Capoeira Ache Brasil in Calgary, Canada.
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[00:01:34] Caxixi – Let’s start from the beginning of your experience, tell me your capoeira story.
[00:01:44] Sua – I’m originally from Russia and immigrated when I was a kid to Israel and capoeira is very big in Israel is huge huge huge like every city has capoeira in Israel, and when I was 13 I started training in 2002 in a city called Eilat it’s a very hot city kind of looks like brazil you know is a little warm and I actually had the opportunity to start with a teacher when we moved to that city so before that no was no capoeira there and when the teacher moved at that time was monitor Mimi, now is a Mestre, at that time I moved to the city and started training no I was one of the fist students and few years after that I moved to Canada and continued capoeira in Canada but I started originally in Israel in the Group Corado de Ouro.
[00:04:57] Caxixi – how did you get your nickname?
Sua – I came from Group Corado de Ouro and I started when I was 13 so at 13 years old you are looking for who you are as a human being as a teenager what are you going to do, and luckily I was able to start Capoeira and live that life as a kid as a teenager, and when I moved to Canada all I knew was Group Corado de Ouro so like Mestre Coquinho, it was very specific training and when I moved to Canada groups here actually must of them are from Recife and the capoeira from Recife is very different you know they play a lot of banguela, a lot of regional so the capoeira is very different. so, when I came, I was playing in the rodas and everything and all the song I was singing you know they were like oh Suasuna, Suasuna so they started to call me Suasuna.
[00:19:58] Caxixi – How do you keep your motivation to train and to teach?
Sua – I think is very healthy to have like a community it could be even on WhatsApp or whatever, we have a like WhatsApp group with my Mestre with all the teacher in our group and all the time all every day you get different video of people training like “oh I did toady 1000 kick” “I did today this” “I did today that” all the time so you almost feel accountable to always training always put some videos that you are training we are from all different towns and the only way to connect is that and that one way, just to have to be accountable weather is for people to be like I wanna out that nice Instagram capoeira video twice a week so people comment on that, so I try to do different things like that, I go to the gym I start working out, lifting weights listening to capoeira music sometimes half way through is like I’m done go to the court do some kicks do some movements is crazy but I think when you are excited you’re passion and you feel committed to teach your students good information then you have to be committed you have to be training outside of class because I think in town where is not a lot of capoeira we have hustle more, we have teach more classes, then different areas of the town and that leave us less time to training and really focus on what we need as teachers how do we grow an specific skills is very important to set those session at side like is off the class before class is like what do I need as a teacher I need to improve my banner, I got to work on that, I need to improve this, improve that, so is important to have that off training outside of what you are teaching in class.
[00:23:29] Caxixi – how is the public reacting to capoeira in Calgary?
Sua – I think in Canada is a very very multi-cultural country so in theory it should go very good and it should spread easy but I think in Canada a lot of people like hockey and they love skiing this kind of stuff winter sports and is tough for people to really get into something so exotic and so different like capoeira, so the public when they see the demos they made they are like “oh my god” but people like they don’t feel “oh I want to go and try this and be like that” they enjoy the show but is a very specific people right, Capoeira me Chama, capoeira is calling specific people, and if capoeira called you then you are lucky. you can performance to a 1000 people and nobody will come from that demonstration.
[00:32:50] Caxixi – Do you have any kind of program or project going on right now?
Sua – We teach in our academy, so we rent a space, we do little projects here and there with children hospitals, cancer foundation, volunteering and stuff like that with low income family sometimes we do here and there but we are focusing on hopefully moving to a new spot in the years or so, and kind of a semi academy so it won’t be like full 100% capoeira academy maybe like a studio that we want to be in charge of rather than rent per hour and once we have our spot 24/7 we can create more projects different kind of cool things that we can have on our spot and have people come in.
[00:35:40] Caxixi – Do you have any batizado coming soon?
Sua – so our batizado is schedule August 03er to the 06th so is in the summer so it should be hot we have a lot of time to prepare for that, but we have a little encounter happening next weekend, we are about to feature. is not a batizado is just a mini event just a little excuse to do capoeira and have some energy.
[00:39:17] Caxixi – What advice do you give to people that are starting in capoeira?
Sua – yeah I mean is gonna be a little different to advice one month in capoeira to a few years in capoeira but overall is find the right people around you if you can like the right teacher the right Mestre the right connection and try to get as much knowledge as you can, it’s important to have the guidance coming out from your group, all the philosophy coming down because that’s what you would be learning and eventually passing on.
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