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Alright, so on today’s episode I got the pleasure to interview a Capoeirista from Canada, he is doing capoeira since 2006 and he teaches in Calgary, Canada, I want to introduce you Inst. Gigante!
[00:42:05] Caxixi: how are you doing man?
Gigante: good man, how are you? thanks for having me
Caxixi: yeah yeah of course, capoeira, that’s what I love about our capoeira community it brings people together, even if we don’t know each other we still can come together
Gigante: yeah, a 100%
[00:00:56] Caxixi: What are your social medias, how people can find you?
Gigante: yeah you can reach me @giganteyyc” follow here https://www.instagram.com/giganteyyc/?hl=en
Our group Instagram is @calgarycapoeira follow here https://www.instagram.com/calgarycapoeira/?hl=en
Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/calgarycapoeira/
so, you can find us in Facebook and Instagram so you should check it out
[00:01:15] Caxixi: tell me your story, how did you start in capoeira, and you can start however you want
Gigante: alright, well like you said it, I started in 2006 and that’s when I started training kind of regular and full on but before that, I think one of the first time I was exposed to capoeira, I think I always knew about capoeira was that kind of breakdance fighting, everyone seems to know it like before they actually they do capoeira so I kind of always knew about it but I didn’t really over see it or kind of encounter it till one day I was in the university in another town and I came to Calgary to visit and we went to a bar and it was a night club and on the dance floor was crowded and then they announced it and the DJ goes “hey everyone clear the floor, clear the floor we have a performance coming out” and I was like “oh what is going on?” everyone is backed up they kind of push people at side to clear the a big area and then these break-dancers came out and then they do a routing and is super cool and everyone is like “yeah this is cool” and they go back and on the side somebody comes ding backhands spring, back hand spring flipped, crowd goes crazy and then soddenly everyone starts doing capoeira, and it was super cool like I said I knew what is was right away “that’s capoeira, that’s that thing “and you know I couldn’t tell you if I saw here or there.
[00:11:24] Caxixi: why Gigante?
Gigante: so yeah instructor sap looked at me and he say “I think I have a name for you” I was like ok what is this, I heard stories of like “hopefully is not like embracing or something because you heard story about people that get a name and then you have to live with it, so he is kind of on the other side of the room he was like raising his hand this and then he was like “Gigante” and I was like I think I know what that means so I was like that’s cool, because I’m tall I guess.
[00:12:15] Caxixi: do you have any kind of like training routine to get that flexible?
Gigante: I started doing stuff when I wasn’t even young when I was doing it, I started working out when I was 15 I went to the gym like but I wasn’t like I go to the gym but I was never fully into it. but I would’ve gone to the gym for fitness and then since I was someone young and then I started capoeira when I was in 2006 I was 22, but I wasn’t you know like some people that start when they were like 10 or 15 or 20 to whatever in that case when I started I always had routines for myself before capoeira I always do like setups and crunches before bed and you know workout and include stretches and stuff in my workouts I kind of did yoga here and there and stuff from yoga that I kept was the backbend and stuff like that
[00:21:25] Caxixi: how are you advertising your classes?
Gigante: so like I said, right now we don’t have too much of a presents because we are still finishing building it the plan is once the website is online, again what I do for work outside of capoeira is like my main kind of job and businesses is building websites with graphic design so I plan to get some Facebook and Instagram paid adds to create videos and post, and nowadays to people to see new businesses you have to pay money to boost the post.
[00:38:10] Caxixi: what has capoeira help you with?
Gigante: yummy… I don’t know I think there’s a lot of thing for sure like I think one of the big ones is to see how what you do makes a positive impact in someone’s life you know, like if somebody comes to class in a bad mood and they leave in a good mood, you know what happens to me all the time and if I force myself to go when I come out feeling good for somebody to say “I’ve never been able to do that” and then after a while then they do it and then you know, they know like all I have to do is try it and you feel good because you were able to help somebody get there.
[00:48:49] Caxixi: do you have any event coming up?
Gigante: we some, stay tuned, we have plans but nothing official, so we’ll post on Instagram or website and stuff, it’s important for sure to like I said once we kind of get our community growing and stuff like that and visiting other events and we want to travel.
[00:59:00] Capoeira game one word:
Caxixi: Bimba,
Gigante: Mestre!
Caxixi: Berimbau,
Gigante: Musica!
Caxixi: Community,
Gigante: family
Caxixi: Ginga,
Gigante: to sei
Caxixi: the best podcast in the world,
Gigante: this one right here hahaha!
Caxixi: mandinga,
Gigante: playful
[01:00:05] Caxixi: advice for capoeiristas?
Gigante: give it a 110%if you wanna learn capoeira, there’s a lot of ways to learn but the way you are gonna get the most out of it is to give 110% ask yourself why you wanna do capoeira and then ask those questions, find the people that can show you, and you know it’s important obviously find the teacher that can show you, and then look for a community that will build you up so the kind of community that we are trying to build is positive, safe growing kind of like these things.
[01:01:12] Caxixi: Social medias again?
Gigante:
Facebook Here
Instagram Here
Capoeira Collective Here
Website Here
Caxixi: Thank you so much,
Gigante: brigadu!