Month: February 2019

09 Bambu Morales GCB DTWLA

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What’s going on Capoeira world!!… Inst. Caxixi here!… As I always say, on this podcast everyone gets interviewed, any experience works to help our community grow, so today I have the pleasure to have as a guest one of my Capoeira Brothers, you know when you travel and you meet new people and you just click with them, he is been doing capoeira for 5 years, and I met him my first time I went to Chicago and since then we became really good hommies!!… He is student of Professor Saracuru from Capoeira Brasil Downtown LA. I want to introduce you to Bambu!!

 [00:01:45] Caxixi: How are you doing man over there?

Bambu: good man, just enjoying the raining southern California

 [00:02:38] Caxixi: So, I like to start the episodes with our guest stories, now tell me when and how did you start capoeira?

Bambu: ok so I tried capoeira a few times when I young one when I was 16 ones again like at 20 something years old I really caught on when I met my professor, professor Saracuru, I met him walking one day and he was like “yo, why don’t you come a try the class?” and I’m like “alright yeah!!”

my mom lives in downtown, coincidently on the same block that he does, so I just happened to be there and yeah just randomly ran into them just a conversation that was brought up, I was already doing martial arts at the time I was already doing judo, but I was kind of like uh falling you know.

 [00:13:18] Caxixi: how many times per week do you train?

Bambu: so that’s a tough one it depends on the week, average it used to be I can tell you this right now for sure is twice a week but I’m gonna start wrapping it up I used to train every day like every day you know every day we would go we would meet up, or we said let go to a park.

 [00:15:38] Caxixi: have Capoeira been helping you on something?

Bambu: I mean I would definitely agree with that, outside from right now, how nervous I am right now you know, but usually you know I’m very hey what’s up what’s happening, you know very out there, very out spoken, I mean I try to be out spoken, it really brought out my personality it gave me like a confidence that I never had before to be honest, it really gave me strength, like a different kind of strength.

[00:24:24] Caxixi: if you must describe capoeira with one word, what it would be??

Bambu: man, that’s a tough one, if I have to say one word I would say “inspiring”

 [00:37:49] Caxixi: Are you planning on traveling for any events?

Bambu: there’s the big one for this year is in July Mestre Paulinho sabia is having his batizado in Brazil so that ticket is not cheap, so I think that’s gonna be the one for this year.

 [00:38:25] Caxixi: how many times have you travel in these 5 years?  even locally?

Bambu: like locally, vie been Chicago, san Francisco, san Diego Mexicali I went to Colombia couple years ago

[00:41:33] Caxixi: what is your favorite song?

Bambu: there’s a lot of songs out there, I usually like very simple songs, you know the song “laa laaue, laaue laaua” something about the sound that pumps me up and I’m just like “alright we are about to play” dud is like “is about to go down right now”

 [00:49:39] Caxixi: an advice for beginners?

Bambu: I mean, as hard it is, is gonna be tough at the beginning it always is, but that’s the fun part you know, cut in the future, I’m sure you experienced it you remember when it was so hard you remember when like the struggle trying to do this moves try to figure out how to play the instruments, it was so hard but you love those moments, you know those moments are gonna stay with you forever, like “man I remember when I was a wacky at this” it makes you feel proud you know.

[00:51:50] Caxixi: how people can find you?

Find Bambu on social media:

Instagram Here
Facebook Here

08 Inst Sua Ache Brasil, Calgary – Canada

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.

Social media:

Instagram Here https://www.instagram.com/instrutor_Sua/

Facebook Here

Website Here https://capoeiraabc.com/

07 Instra Valente GCB Cali Desert

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What up Capoeiristas!! This is your host Inst. Caxixi!! And todays episode we (and BY WE I MEAN YOU AND I) are having a very very good friend of mine!! I met this person a while ago as always Capoeira does, in a Capoeira event and since then we have been good friends!! and I am very happy to have you with us INSTRUTORA VALENTE!!!!!! From Capoeira Brasil Cali Desert!! SO happy to have you here today!!! How are you doing my friend??

[00:01:25] – Valente: I’m good thank you so much for having me, I’m excited to be on your podcast

[00:01:30] – Caxixi – Yes Yes thank you for making the time, the little window for sharing this experience, so like any interview I’m gonna start from the beginning, from your very beginning on Capoeira, so when you started from the first day until today and you can start however you want.

[00:01:55] – Valente – ok so actually I sing up for my first capoeira class in San Diego at university California San Diego, in the year 2000 and was a recreating class from campus and unfortunately last minute before I started the class I had to change my academic curse schedule to another class that was schedule on the Capoeira nights and I was sad I already paid for it so actually one of my best guy friends at the time I said “hey you know have you hear about Capoeira?” and he said “no” and I said “well it is this kind of like breakdance thing you should check it out” and I said “I paid you should take my spot” and he ended up becoming very good capoeirista practicing every day for a few years and I went to his batizado I believe 2003/2004 and I saw him and his friends doing Capoeira at a party in about I think was 2005 then I said ok that’s really cool but I wanna learn breakdancing.

so I moved to Seattle after san Diego and I was living up there 2005/2006 and 2006 ok I can’t find a breakdancing class but there is a capoeira class, I’m gonna try then breakdancing from Capoeira so I went to group axe capitol hill in Seattle and an amazing class it was Coquinho who was the instructor at the time and it was a great group very very friendly and after the first class I said ok I don’t care about breakdancing Capoeira is it, Capoeira is my thing and I knew from day one that it was for me for the rest of my life.

[00:05:30] – Caxixi: What is the story behind your nick name, Valente?

Valente: I receive my name I believe after a year, year and a half in Capoeira, end one thing that anyone who remember, when I first started in Capoeira in los Angeles, I didn’t really have a good understanding in my level compare to people much more experienced so I’d play in the roda as if I’ve much more experience than I did I’m sure didn’t look that great but I didn’t care I just went forward, I played every one very hard and thankfully I did not die in that processes but just had no sense of fear at all I just didn’t have any worries about it I just went forward I just loved it so much that I didn’t care, and no matter how it looked so I be alive that’s why I got the name “Valente”

[00:08:08] – Caxixi: What do you think about the business and Capoeira? Your own perspective on how or what do you think about those combination?

so I’m in a interesting situation because Mestre Mindinho and I actually created a non-profit for our academy, I receive no income at all for teaching and we put a lot of heart and soul into this so for me it’s all about the love of Capoeira even thigh it takes up about as much time as my day job and I work in a hospital, even though it take about as much time as my day job, you think about my training the administration the website, read the communication with families, the marketing, everything, teaching itself, cleaning the academy, I think the academy, Mestre Mindinho cleans the academy. I would say I spend as much time in Capoeira as I do in my day job, and personally I’m not receiving any money back that’s a choice from me. I absolutely love Capoeira and I just wanted move it forward with that being said of course still a business for example we have a standalone studio, there is nothing other than Capoeira in our studio and is a nice space, so in order to maintain that of course we have to treat that as a business, so of course is constant marketing to get more students, sell uniforms, having events, we have lot of workshops, keeping cost low, and I do actually have to deal with the business side every single day.

[00:15:03] – Caxixi: what do you think the benefits that Capoeira can bring to society, from your own perspective?

Valente: I’ve been teaching probably, I wanna say I’ve been teaching for like 3 years, 3 and a half years, in my own studio each time, both time have been in my own location and because of that all my students come to me without any Capoeira experience, totally fresh and I’m going to tell you it is so dramatic the change that I see in confidence, all my students for me that’s everything

Valente Social Media:

Website Here

Instagram Here @mindinhoValente

Capoeira Brasil Cali Desert Here

Facebook Here

06 Mestre Mindinho GCB Cali Desert

Whatup whatup Capoeiristas!! I am your host Inst. Caxixi… So for this episode, I have the very big honored to bring to our show one of the many Capoeiristas that I personally admire a lot, this is MESTRE MINDINHO from Grupo Capoeira Brasil, Cali Desert, Puebla Mexico, and other schools!!!

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[00:01:16] Caxixi: How you started in Capoeira, from the first time you saw it?

[00:01:32] M. Mindinho: Well is Basic, I started as a kid, I started since 11 years old in Brazil, I am from Rio de Janeiro, and like everybody else a funny story, is just like I heard about capoeira some times on TV but I never really have any experience with capoeira, but I was in school, and have this girl that I had a crush on it, and she come to me and said “oh I’m going to my first capoeira class today” I said “wow that’s awesome, let’s go together” and I went with her, we took the first class together, it was really fun, she never came back and I’m still here today!

[00:04:05] Caxixi: Everyone in Capoeira, obviously, each of us have a nick name, capoeira apelido, how did you get the Mindinho? How People find you as Mindiho?

[00:04:18] M. Mindinho: That was very natural, like when I started Capoeira at 11, I was very very short, small and my teacher used to teach class just for adults, for long time I was the only kid in class, everybody was huge in class I was the little one, “Mindinho”, mini, like a Pinky, and that’s why, like a little finger, then I was the little one in class.

[00:14:00] Caxixi: What do you think about the good benefits that capoeira, I know is many, but the benefits that capoeira brings to society, like how do you think that can help our communities?

[00:00:00] M. Mindinho: well has so many ways in Capoeira, is amazing, has so many stories, capoeira has work with refugees, that’s advantage in our communities around the world, but I wanna go a little more specific, to United States, because I’ve been here for 16 years now and those years has been absorbed how capoeira works. One of the main things is I think Capoeira has really help many communities in the United States, is about create an open community, like a family sense.

M. Mindinho’s Social Media:

Check M. Mindinho’s Website Here

M. Mindinho’s Instagram Here: @mindinhovalente

FaceBook Here

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