What up Capoeira nation welcome back to the capoeira experience podcast. Today we will continue the female series, on this opportunity I have the pleasure to interview a female Capoeirista that started capoeira back in 2004 after seen capoeira for the very first time and falling in love with this awesome are since then, let me introduce you to Graduada Baqueta from Capoeira Ache Brasil, Calgary.
What’s up capoeira nation, welcome back to the capoeira experience podcast where you learn the whys for your capoeira community why people do what they do in capoeira and the reasons behind and objective and everything about our capoeira community you can learn anything. I have an episode where I taught how I usually teach how to learn berimbau check that out and today I have this beautiful guest this’s my wife Canarinha.
Canarinha: hello hello
Caxixi: so, I had her on episode 12 go check it out
you can go a little bit deeper into her capoeira story
Canarinha: who am I
Caxixi: Canarinha!
Canarinha: Canarinha!
Caxixi: so, today’s episode I want to talk, or we want to talk about the capoeira and the body wellness, so how important is fitness or taking care of your body. but before we start please telling your social media:
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.
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
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On today’s episode I would like to teach you some tips and trick to learn berimbau, if you apply these tricks to your daily routine you can learn to play berimbau in a very fast time and you won’t need the berimbau every single time to practice, but I still recommend you to have your own berimbau so talk to your instructor or professor if they have berimbaus in the academy that they can sell to you and you can support your school by doing that.
Listen, berimbau is a basic skill if you want to get into high ranks in your school also learning berimbau is really cool for many reasons, you can help to play in the roda, demonstrations, or any time a berimbau is needed – so all the time right? by learning berimbau you also are going to help a lot your instructor or professor, for example when you learn berimbau and you play it, you are allowing your teacher to play in the roda and that helps a lot and makes us happy so we can get to play with all of you, so put your hands on it, learn berimbau and show off your skills after this!
Alright, so this is the way I learned berimbau 18 years ago and after I practiced this way for a few months I was able to play berimbau in the roda, I wasn’t able to sign in the roda but I was able to play, and singing and play instruments come with a lot of practice so I encourage you to do so after you learn berimbau, so this is how I usually teach berimbau and it works for a lot of people they learn pretty quick, so after this it will be up to you put this in practice so be accountable for it.
Before, we gotta learn the part of the berimbau, the berimbau consist of 6 parts and the names on Portuguese of these 6 parts are: Verga (which is the body of the berimabu), Arame (which is the wire), Cabaca (which is the gourd), Baqueta (which is the stick to play it), dobrado or pedra (which is that big metal coin or the stone or rock) and of course a caxixi (which is the shaker).
That been said, there are a few basic berimbau rhythms that you can learn and they can help you to get set up to learn the rest.
we have Angola
we have sao bento pequeno
we have sao bento grande de bimba
we sao bento grande de angola
and we have one a little more complex one called Iuna
All those rhythms are composed by only 3 kinds of sounds, but each of them is on a different pattern.
These 3 sounds are:
The xiado (is with the rock very softly pressed against the wire): xixi the don (rock won’t touch the wire): dondon and the din (press hard against the wire): dindin
Now that you have and recognize these 3, you are going to practice these sounds with your mouth:
For example:
Xiado you are going to do: xixixixixi
don: don don don don
din: din din din din
AGAIN
practice those sounds every day with your mouth so you can recognize these sounds. if at some point you listen to capoeira music anywhere, pay attention to the berimbau sounds and try to copy them with this sounds I just gave you.
Rhythm practice:
Now we put them together to do the first rhythm, “Angola” makes this sound with your mouth – warning: don’t be shy to do so
The are 2 xiados, 1 don, 1 din
Sounds like this: xixi – xixi – don – din
It repeats over and over
Sao bento pequeno
Now this one is just backwards as angola
The are 2 xiados, 1 din, 1 don
It sounds like: xixi – xixi – din – don
It repeats over and over too
Practice these 2 with your mouth and with the berimbau so you can get into the more complex ones
Sao bento grande de bimba
This one is a little more complex but it is pretty easy once you get it
I’m going to break it in 2 parts for you
The first part is:
First part sounds like: xixi – xixi – don – xixi – xixi – din
Second part sounds like: xixi – xixi – don – don – din
It repeats over and over too
Sao bento grande de angola
This one is a little easier and fun as well
I’m going to break it in 2 parts as well for you
The first part is going to be: xixi – xixi – din – don – don
It repeats over and over too
All these sounds are very easy to practice, you just gotta comment and keep practicing with your mouth but especially with the berimbau and ask your teacher to help you practice some music and I am sure you are going to be able to play berimbau in a few months if you really really practice this tips and tricks.
what’s up Capoeira Nation, welcome back to the Capoeira Experience Podcast where you are going to learn more about our Capoeira community and where you can express your experience, Thank you so much for your support, it means a lot to me and it helps me to stay motivated to keep doing this!
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.
Whatup capoeiristas, welcome back to the capoeira experience podcast, where you are going to learn from all kind of experiences to increase your knowledge in capoeira, and even to find your whys in capoeira.
Today I have the pleasure to have with us my very first
student in the US, the first American that I wanted to teach capoeira and pass
on not just my knowledge but also my passion in and out of class, not just as
my student also as my wife and this is Canarinha from capoeira brasil Indianapolis
[00:02:02] Caxixi: We
gotta start from the beginning I usually start all the interviews from the
beginning I just want to know how everyone starts in capoeira from day one till
right now, tell me a little bit of your story from the very beginning
Canarinha: ok well
I meet you in 2012 I heard that you did capoeira and you were staying in the US
just for 2 months so I asked the person that you knew if you can teach me capoeira
and maybe we can get together, do something. The guy finds out that I liked you
from there he kind of introduced us and we started talking, hanging out. We
didn’t really do capoeira, we you were here, but when you came back, I would
say I officially started training with you, probably in 2014? I started
training with you.
[00:07:38] Caxixi: For
you what was that eye catching for capoeira?
Canarinha: the
kicks, for sure! I think all the kick are amazing, throughout the years the
acrobatics got me be the initial thing that got were the kicks.
[00:09:03] Caxixi: what
do you like the must about capoeira?
Canarinha: I like
the energy the most I think all the people all the moves and everything that
brings together when you are in the roda, I think is that explosive energy and
that makes me want more you know is very like I said, when I saw you it was
very contagious and I think your energy is what attacked to it, so for Capoeira
when I’m in the roda when I’m in a festival or class is definitely the energy
that fires me up.
[00:12:15] Caxixi:
if you have to choose on word for capoeira what it would be?
Canarinha: contagious,
don’t matter who it is or what it is or where it is, if you are at a capoeira
event no matter what kind of group who or whatever you are always going to be
like in a Roda, you always end up in a roda with some people not even like a
playing Roda, you are standing, you are talking you are creating this group of
people.
[00:17:07] Caxixi:
Why Canarinha?
Canarinha: well is definitely not because I sign amazing
I feel in capoeira people base it of a look, or characteristic or personality or something that at the
moment have to be with you, so when you first met me I was partially blonde, I
was half blond half brunet I probable kept that for about 3 years? yeah yeah 3
years and I think that probably that pop in your head.
[00:019:07] Caxixi:
from the student-wife perspective, what do you see from there, like from
outside, behind the scene and everything?
Canarinha: well
first of is more than love of capoeira, you have like an obsession with
capoeira, I would say that you love capoeira more than me but that’s another
story, I think is awesome, I think is awesome, you know as partner wise if you
have something in common that you both love or both really like to do I think
it really helps your relationship you know push each other both up.
[00:29:33] Canarinha:
I have a question for you, so I know that you’ve dated capoeira people in the
past, how does it feel to take or to meet someone that never do capoeira you
know never has any experience on that but you know you brought them into it,
how does it feel, 1: dating someone outside of capoeira and 2: your wife,
getting your wife into capoeira, having student as your wife?
Caxixi: That’s a
good question, I’ve never got that question before. yeah I dated a few out of
capoeira, at the beginning is definitely hard, is hard but exciting at the same
time, because that person doesn’t know about capoeira unless that person is
interested in capoeira of course, like you were at the beginning because you
were looking at me with such a big eyes, I got more excited because I wanted to
show off.
[00:38:08] Caxixi: what
kind of skills of benefits capoeira has bring to your life?
Canarinha: for
sure not being as shy and as nervous and I wanna say thank you to everyone I’ve
meet you know in some way you actually have helped me to come out of my shield
and not be as nervous or be self-conscious in capoeira you know you’ve definitely
made me a better person who I am today weather was bad or good or you know,
kick me in the face whatever I just feel that I’ve learn so much from each
person I’ve met.
[00:47:17] Caxixi: what
do you recommend to capoeiristas out there?
Canarinha: don’t
hold back, don’t be scare to do what you wanna to do, if you wanna to try
something don’t be scared, don’t hold yourself back because what you think
other people think or what other people judge you or you look silly you know I
mean.
[00:00:00] Caxixi:
what are your social media?
Canarinha: I do I
little bit of everything but it’s
