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What’s up capoeira nation! welcome back to the Capoeira Experience podcast, I’m your host Inst. Caxixi. before we get started I just want to say thanks again to all the capoeira community that keeps supporting my work by sharing the podcast, I still want to interview a lot more people and I hope you can join me one day and share your capoeira experience so make sure you watch the interviews on YouTube and you can see how fun they are!!!
So on today’s episode I have a the pleasure to interview another female capoeirista with an awesome voice, she started capoeira in 2004 in California, her first class was fun and full of energy with really good capoeiristas, her first classes was with the wonderful M. Amen and CM Girafa and fall in love with capoeira since then specially with the Capoeira music, so she join her group since then! I want to introduce you to Professora Saehee from Capoeira Batuque Los Angeles, California!
Caxixi: Hey How Are you doing?
Saehee: HI, wow thank you for that great introduction
Caxixi: Of course! of course! I love our capoeira community so everyone has an especial spot in the podcast, thank you for being here with us
Saehee: Of course, thank you for interviewing me, this is awesome
Caxixi: yeah absolutely
Caxixi: so, before we jump to everything, what are your social medias and how people can find you?
Saehee: my Instagram is “@mustlymouve” people try to tell me to change that name to make it something capoeira related I haven’t done it yet so I’m no super super super into social media but can find me on Instagram or you can also find me on Facebook.
Facebook Here
Instagram Here
Caxixi: tell us a little bit about yourself, who is professora Saehee? and who are you in the capoeira community.
Saehee: in the capoeira community… well as you were telling me as you were saying in the introduction I started capoeira sometime in 2004 just randomly me and my friend went to take a class and it was with capoeira Batuque and it was taught by Contra Mestre Girafa at the time he was a professor and our Mestre Mestre amen was trying to promote his class and he was visiting prof. Girafa’s class it was this awesome class and ever since then I’ve been training on and off it was a time where it was 2 years period that I took a break capoeira has definitely being you know something that I had to own up to something that gave me a platform just to carry on my life so it is just like another capoeirista would say amazing and a huge part of my life that practice that allows me to express a lot of my passions
Caxixi: is that name or nickname?
Saehee: Saehee is my real name is the name that was given to me by my parents I don’t really have a nickname is kind of an ongoing thing with my Mestre I’ve gotten a lot of different nicknames from different people but none have really stock so I’m kind of a brat on that way I just choose not to use any other name that I got
Caxixi: what is one thing that you say that capoeira helped in your life in your entire life?
Saehee: I think, I mean one thing I would say it give me like I said kind of like a platform to see myself to go through the ups and downs there either ups and downs in life but I could not think of ups and downs not as much as down being a bad time and up being like good time is more like you practice something and you master it, you practice something and you fall, you fall and the you get up, you know that constant up and down and I think not just the game of capoeira just me as a capoeirista is always kind of like up and down emotion I have to be okay with that sometimes
Caxixi: how do you think capoeira can help a person?
Saehee: I think capoeira can help you just kind of go with it and be in the moment you know that’s kind of like a metaphor for life but we have this amazing art form that you practice some moves and sometimes we are afraid to sing a song or I don’t know afraid to do moves that we have master yet but it just allows to kid of trust your practice and go for it allows you to not seek perfection so much and just maybe seek the greatness of being in the moment
Caxixi: why do you think is important for capoeira community or capoeira people to learn the music and learn instruments?
Saehee: to put it very simply I don’t think that you can fully say that you do capoeira unless you can connect with the music I mean it might sound I little bit harsh maybe but I mean to me is true if I’m having a bad day and I can’t play really well I just go and can to the roda and play interments and I can feel connected I mean so much is passed on not just the songs itself like the lyrics there’s a lot of history, there’s a lot of stories been told and capoeira comes from an oral tradition you know
Caxixi: would you sign a song for us?
Saehee: *singing “Beira mar”*
Caxixi: capoeira events coming soon?
Saehee: capoeira Batuque will have a batizado this year is our 30th yeah 30 years of being in Los Angeles and we normally will have like a Zumbi day sometime in the winter which concede with zumbi’s day
Batuque Batizado Here
Caxixi: tell me again your social medias
Saehee:
Facebook Here
Instagram Here
Hey, thank you so much for your time and sharing your experience!!!