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whats up capoeira nation welcome back to the capoeira experience podcast, today is the last episode of the female series, it was so much fun and super amazing how much we can learn from each other, so thank you very very much to each and every single of you female capoeiristas that came to this platform to share your experience and wanted to give an enormous value to our capoeira community.
Just a heads up this episode was done in Portuguese so I encourage you to pay a lot of attention. In this episode I had the amazing pleasure to interview Mestre Francesinha, I met her on my last trip to Brazil, in Fortaleza. She actually was the person that inspired me to start this female series, because when I met her, she had a papoeira where she talks about how important women were in capoeira, and that gave me the idea of starting this series.
Here we talk about women in Capoeira, women in maculele and even the history of the word GINGA.
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What up capoeira nation welcome back once again to the capoeira experience podcast, thank you so much for spending some time here with us and sharing the podcast with your friends.
So close to finish the female, series on today’s episode I got the pleasure of interviewing one more female capoeirista, she started capoeira in 2002 but wasn’t till 2007 when she really stick to capoeira till today, she started in Puerto Rico with Anaue Capoeira and now is part of Karkara Capoeira in Florida, let me introduce you to Monitora Vermelinha!.
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Whatup Capoeira nation welcome back to the capoeira experience podcast, finally back to the episodes and back to the female series thank you so much for your support!
We are going to continue the female series and this female capoeirista started in 2005 while she was living in Ecuador. She became a graduate student of Mestre Preguiça in 2014 she currently teaches classes in 3 locations, Kanopy Dance Studio, madison west high school, and at a pediatric mental health facility in Madison, Wisconsin. Let me introduce you to Bruxa, Omulu Capoeira – Madison, Wisconsin.
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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.
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what’s up capoeira nation, welcome back to the capoeira experience podcast, where all of us get our Capoeira community closer and stronger, thank you so much for the support and listing to all the episodes.
today we are going to continue the capoeira female series and we are going to talk about taking care of our body and how it can help our capoeira, for this I will have the help or a female capoeirista, she started back in 2016 and since then she saw that capoeira was something beyond just an activity so today my guest is Semparar from Axe Capoeira Chicago!
Caxixi: how are you doing?
Sem Parar: good thank you, how about you?
Caxixi: pretty good, excited… finally we made it work
Sem Parar: I know, it took a while
Caxixi: I remember you told me that you are personal trainer, when did you start the personal training stuff?
Sem Parar: I officially being a person trainer for about a year, but I’ve been working in the industry for the last probably 3 years since the first time I started training capoeira
Caxixi: oh cool cool are you officially full time as a personal trainer
Sem Parar: I was till recently I’m a fitness director in the operations manager of a gym I do training and I teach classes as well
Caxixi: oh man that’s awesome, so you are full full time into the fitness pretty much
Caxixi: you started capoeira in 2016 right? now tell us a little bit more about your story and how your started till now and you can start however you want
Sem Parar: ok yeah!… So I just moved to Vancouver, dc, and I was looking for whatever ways to connect with the community there and do things that were around my life style so I was looking for just different classes that I can take and you know all different kind of movements so dance and parkour all different things and it happened that I moved just down the street from axe academy there and my roommate was going so I ended up going to a beginners course kind of like you know didn’t think too much of it did know too much going into it and yeah the next thing I know I’m here it becomes my lifestyle and hopefully will continue to be for as long as I can see to the future
Caxixi: what are your social medias, how people can find you and all the stuff
Sem Parar: I have the instagram: @axe_semparar
Check the website here https://taylorpearon.com/
Facebook: Taylor Pearonhttps://www.facebook.com/taylorpearon
Caxixi: how do you think from your own perspective how important is taking care of our body?
Sem Parar: yeah I mean I think capoeira is so unique because you are doing it as a lifestyle is so high impact that it demands so much of you right more than anything else because is not like a team sport that we have a game and we are practicing for a specific time I mean is the roda but is like a continues level of training that is required…
Caxixi: what do you think how or what is your perspective about that since you have been stepping on both, fitness and capoeira?
Sem Parar: right, yeah I mean I’m still within that window in both right only within the last three years for me so there’s a lot that I haven’t seen because I haven’t been able to seen over all in that time but I do see that women and you know as a trainer I work primarily with women so that have been very interesting I haven’t be exclusive but that has been who have saw me out…
Caxixi: how do you think women can step up more in capoeira?
Sem Parar: in capoeira I think again it all comes back to the individual capoeira I think one of the great thing is that give confidence in so many people children and adult right and for men and women an I think I using that continuing part of it that capoeira gives you the confidence but also you have to create that for yourself right I was just speaking to a friend that is so much about internet motivation like yes we learn from each other, yes we have our teachers that give us so much but you have to be motivated to make it happened
Caxixi: what would you think is your advice for the female that is listing to this this podcast?
Sem Parar: my advice is to play in the rodas as much as you can, you can use that as a metaphor right, in life in capoeira in all the contexts I think just push yourself to do thing that you are scared to do but want to do, I always think on things that scared you and excited you at the same time are usually the best things to do…
Caxixi: what are your social media again?
Sem Parar: I have the instagram: @axe_semparar
Check the website here https://taylorpearon.com/
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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:
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What up Capoeira Nation, Inst. Caxixi here! Today I just want to talk to you about self-motivation, to tell you my why and to explain to you why I am doing this Podcast!
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What’s up capoeira nation! welcome back to the Capoeira Experience podcast, where we connect our capoeira community and help motivate in a very positive way our community to help with tips and advice to help you understand this beautiful art. This is your host Inst. Caxixi and I just want to say thank you so much to the capoeira community for the support.
Today I have the pleasure to interview a capoeira from Amsterdam, capoeira change his life completely, gave him another opportunity to take a different course in his life, he has about 10 years doing capoeira and he has a really good work in Europe with kids and adults, he is a good example that capoeira can help us to change our life, I want to introduce you to Inst. Tum from Batuque Capoeira, Amsterdam.
Caxixi: hey thank you so much for been here with us!
Caxixi: so before we jump to your experiences, what are your social media and how people can find you?
Facebook Here
Instagram Here @batuquecapoeira_holland
Website Batuque Capoeira Holland capoeiraholland.com
Caxixi: tell us more about yourself, who is Tum? and you can start however you want
Energia: my name is energia, that’s my capoeira name so as kid I was really into martial arts like Bruce lee and stuff but I was from a very small village and didn’t know any martial art back then we only had karate and boxing and that’s it and judo so we played this game takken you might know it takken 3 so I was playing it and I was like wow, and I had 3 older brothers and I saw this eddy Gordon you know, and we didn’t know it was capoeira by then and we were like yeah eddy this crazy dace fighter so I was always playing eddy and doing stuff and I wanted to train martial arts and this one friend in school he did karate or taekwondo or something and I saw to my mom “mom can I train with this guy, can I do it as well” and my mom was like “no, no martial arts, you can play hokey, you can play piano” and that’s it man, so skip forward 10 years later and I was like 16, 17 and I moved out of the house to go to college or something you might called university or whatever and the first thing I did I was like “man I wanna do martial arts” so I was with my friends into the heavy metal thing back then and I was like you know I’ve never been an aggressive guy so I wanted to be like different you know and I saw this capoeira then I remember man capoeira that’s what I wanted do so I google where are them and I got in contact with my professor Chris and I said man when can I start training capoeira and I was imagining I will learn all this crazy flips and spring kicks and the first thing I heard when I walked up the stairs it was the berimbau and I was like “what” and then heard the guy singing “paranaue and zoom zoom zoom” like I saw in the movie only the strong and stuff and I was like “wow this is like I saw on the movie this a real thing” yeah man I was in the roda and my teacher some time still laugh at me for the face I made that day
Caxixi: how old were you when you starting to smoke weed and drinking a lot and all that?
Energia: man it’s kind of weird because you know I have two older brothers and I was like 14-15 and just started in high school and I was smoking you know weed one per week twice per week and then when I started living on my own right before I started doing capoeira it was daily at school, after school, it was the only thing in my mind you know
Caxixi: how do you get from day one or when you start teaching to full time, how do you get there?
Energia: so form e the thing was I’m like all or nothing guy with everything, weather I’m training capoeira or training whatever it’s either 200% or zero, so I was thinking about you know I want to train more and I was traveling and training an going to brazil and everything and one day my Mestre he called me and he said “energia I need to talk to you” ok you know, he said “we have this grupo in this city far in the north and I need you to teach there” so I was like okay cool I have to do one class you know I did some classes when my teacher was ail or injured so I was “okay” he said “no no no, permanently, take over the group” and I was like “wow what happened?” and he is like “the instructor is moving and stuff are happening you know so there is a group there 3 or 4 people small group but yeah we need someone to take it over and start bringing some new light to it”
Caxixi: do you have any kind of nonprofit or do you have any entity there for your school?
Energia: oh yeah it’s 3 thing actually first stuff is the group you know Batuque Capoeira which is my Mestre, Mestre Vladimir, Contra Mestre Salsicha, my Prof. Verminosoand then it expands to different instructors we are in like 15 cities now I think our strength divided into all these cities we have so much unity for one group
there’s a part the business side which I’m instructor like by myself, I have my own company which is you know like the group and we have my part which is capoeira energia and I teach my classes under that name and if people want workshops and we have demonstrations then they call my company or the end of my company but I do everything under that name of the group
Caxixi: how do you reach people for your classes?
Energia: for the regular classes anything I can do to promote capoeira but the funny thing is not with the mindset to promote capoeira is because I love doing it so first thing one day I did the first workshop they called me and then the first demonstration in the city I was teaching there are 2 or 3 groups in the same city is not a big city and they all masters and I was like how am I you know I’m nobody and then I started growing and growing because every time the city had anything I always said yes always I always went even if I had to pay even more traveling expenses that I got I didn’t care
Caxixi: capoeira events coming soon?
Energia: yeah we have in weeks we have the annual children festival camp so all the children from our group divided in all the cities so I’m like kids their kids there and over a 100 kids they come to this 2 days festival where they have sleepover, they have capoeira quiz, capoeira rodas, capoeira rodas, capoeira play time everything capoeira related and they all get together so again the community you know
besides that we have our batizado event but is gonna be in the fall so its gonna be a bit later
Caxixi: tell me again your social media
Energia:
Facebook Here
Instagram Here @batuquecapoeira_holland
Website Batuque Capoeira Holland capoeiraholland.com
Hey thank you so much for your time and sharing your experience!!!
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What’s up capoeira nation! welcome back to the Capoeira Experience podcast, where we connect our capoeira community and help motivate in a very positive way our community to help with tips and advice to help you understand this beautiful art. This is your host Inst. Caxixi and I just want to say thank you so much to the capoeira community for the support.
So I get very happy when the capoeira community reach out to me to connect and talk about our beautiful capoeira, and I hope one day you out there reach out to me so we can have you on the podcast!!! that been said for today’s episode I’m very excited because it is my very first time that I will interview here on the podcast an Angoleiro, so he started capoeira in 1997 in Detroit after 7 years he knew that there was more than he could be tapped in, during that time he met Mestre Caboclinho Aruanda at his first workshop in Michigan falling in love with capoeira Angola so in 2007 he decided to start over in Capoeira Angola “Centro Tabcat” thanks to the blessing of Mestre Caboclinho Aruanda. Right now he has a nonprofit called “Creative Movement Brazil” helping kids, teens and even adults in Capoeira Angola, music, dance, and culture, so let me introduce you to Contra Mestre Pequinininho from Detroit, Michigan.
Caxixi: How are you doing man?
Pequinininho: Alright, how about yourself?
Caxixi: pretty good, pretty good, sorry for such a long intro
Pequinininho: oh no problem, muito obrigado!
Caxixi: of course! of course! our capoeira community how we were talking before you know this podcast is for our capoeira community and I strongly believe that capoeira was created to bring people together
Caxixi: so, before we jump into the interview and all the questions, what are your social media?
Pequinininho:
Facebook Here @tabcatdetroit
Instagram Here
Website Here http://www.detroitcapoeira.com/
Caxixi: the show consists of 2 parts, to people to understand so people can stay a lit bit longer they can hear the whole story the first part is going to be about your story, capoeira story, your journey and everything till now then we are gonna jump to how you handle you no for-profit there and it works for the community there.
—- > Part 1 – Capoeira
Caxixi: Now that been said tell us more about yourself, who is Contra Mestre Pequinininho? and you can start however you want
Pequinininho: ok well let’s see, everything much started in my past I’m an artist ever since my mother would always make sure I was in some type of creative aspect so if it wasn’t science it was art by birth I’m an artist I like to draw that actually transpired into actual physical creativity from martial art itself so mostly everybody around we all grow up seen Bruce Lee as our martial artist but it is great I was like oh this is something unique that the actual body can do however there was always a thing that always itched me that is just I feel is something you know my culture actually has not just to say you know I never saw anybody like me then it came around when I saw couple different thing like James Kelly Raven Kleve different martial artist as well that we know now in the actual black community and then they were inspirations for me wow something different
but later on, I’m gonna give you a good laugh this is about my capoeira journey, I actually came across my first movie everybody always will say sometimes that the first movie that inspire me was only the strong and the you know I heard the berimbau playing and then and I was like wow this is, like wow, so I’m 13 and I was looking at this I was like oh my god I want to learn this so bad and this is like so long ago when yahoo groups existed so it was a limit so the only time that I can research it so I was like is in brazil, well my mother is not gonna let go to a whole other country and been 13, yeah exactly and I was like aaahh so I was just like you know look at it try to mimic some things but later on in high school I actually met one of still one of my best friend his name is Tertius so we’re both in art class and he came in and he introduce himself and hey you do anime art work, and you do videogame art work and I was like yeah is cool then here comes the actually funny part, so I’m riding my bike back home and I heard you know at the distance I heard like “hold one second was is that” I heard the berimbau in the distance but then I heard they sinigang the chores “Parana e, parana e Parana” and I heard and soon as I turned really quick I saw somebody in the corner doing ginga doing au and a bunch of different things and I’m like wow now the funny part is that I turned really sharp that I flipped off my bike.
Caxixi: so, did you start with capoeira contemporanea in 1997?
Pequinininho: yeah it was contemporanea and it was like a lot of different things like again it wasn’t like a solid base like I couldn’t understand it was a little bit more like topical it almost felt like you know getting get out, you know get in get out, yeah yeah you know it’s like we are doing ginga from doing ginga what about the history of ginga, what about you know what was the past of meia lua, what’s meia lua de compasso you know, I’m American I don’t speak Portuguese so even that so a lot of the time where the question that I had there were never answered.
Caxixi: What made you fall in love with capoeira Angola?
Pequinininho: well it was that I was able to find out more about the past, the history that you know wasn’t just Brazil, but it was more or even going back to the diaspora the whole transitions of everything, that really calls me because like I said as myself you know for me and couple of my friends we all grow and we didn’t really have that individuals that we can look like martial arts thing like this and that and this show that has a history that came from slaves and the something that was powerful that whole experience was like wow
Caxixi: how do you think capoeira Angola can help people or our community?
Pequinininho: I feel like a benefit for the community here is do something different and unique because more around here in Detroit, or Michigan itself we have different cultures here, we have someone teach dance, some teach Afro Cuban dance, some teach African dance, you know some teach we actually have a Philippine community, we have all kind of community, and Brazilian community here as well, except I fell that capoeira Angola can help everybody because how the community at large needs something different and needs something that has a rich history in it so they can know you know is not just this art but you as individual your story doesn’t end at the corner.
Caxixi: what do you think we can make our capoeira community stronger?
Pequinininho: I feel that what can makes stronger is that individual can leave their ego at the door, yeah because is not again it doesn’t matter what you title is it doesn’t matter what cardio you have doesn’t matter you know that you buy capoeira all the time it doesn’t matter you get to the roda and you gave 10 rasteira you mention rasteira for the game you know it doesn’t matter what matter is everybody is happy everybody is in peace everybody is learning is becoming a more infinite individual I feel that will make the capoeira community stronger
—- > Part 2 – Behind curtains
Caxixi: why nonprofit instead of LLC?
Pequinininho: well the nonprofit spoke to me more you know one I’m not really good with administration and everything as much so wife stepped in so she doesn’t hear me talking about her well which is a good thing but we sat down we talked about it initially we talk about the corporation part and the nonprofit we both came to an agreement one day you know something more for the community
Caxixi: how do you set the nonprofit up if you are by yourself?
Pequinininho: well the first thing I would say is that you really do know exactly what you want to do you have to know what exactly want you want to do you know my wife says oh we can do this oh we can do that and I’m like babe focus in this one thing so you have to have one thing, even if you want to make a nonprofit and teach people how you know paint just make sure you focus in this one aspect but there many things that creative mind wants to do
Caxixi: how are you promoting your classes?
Pequinininho: oh let see we use social media newsletter systems actual printed flyers word of mouth you know actual community events you know have vendor booth and give up flyers you know performances we actually are performing coming up this Friday for the city of Detroit at the spirit plaza is a lot of different individuals so thing like that
Caxixi: capoeira events coming soon?
Pequinininho: ah let’s see, we have our annual Brazilian festival Michigan coming up that’s September the 14th from noon to 7 here in Detroit
Caxixi: let’s break this in 2 parts, so the first part one advice to people that haven’t done capoeira, or they started capoeira what advice do you give?
Pequinininho: I would say know that is not going to be easy but you know just have a lot of patience a lot of faith not just into capoeira but in yourself you are gonna be able to grow, just have an open mind and just remember to that you are gonna be using muscles in your body that you don’t use on you on a regular basis
Caxixi: and the second advice that would be for that already do capoeira or teach capoeira what advice would you give to them?
Pequinininho: I would say don’t let ego take over, don’t let ego take over and remember that you are always an student a title is just something that yes you came to the time but remember all somewhere you have the responsibility to pass on to the next person make sure you pass on something that’s positive to the person don’t pass on you know your bad experiences you know anything like that because you can create another generation that’s not going to grow, they are gonna be static remember that you are still a student
Caxixi: tell me again your social medias
Facebook Here @tabcatdetroit
Instagram Here
Website Here http://www.detroitcapoeira.com/
Hey thank you so much for your time and sharing your experience!!!
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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!!!
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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.
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.
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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!
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Right on, on today’s episode this capoeirista have a rely good work, I started following him on Instagram and I see that he has a pretty cool creative way to keep kid busy with games which are pretty cool btw, I did my homework and I saw that he started capoeira in 1997 but came across with Mestre Cicatriz from Rio de Janeiro in 2001 and the journey in Kadara Capoeira begins from there! so I would like to introduce you to Professor Soquete!!
[00;02;00] Caxixi: How are you doing man?
Soquete: hey my friend, how are you?
Caxixi: pretty good! pretty good! how is everything over there?
Soquete: it’s great, we just finished a couple of classes, so it’s nice and quiet here in the academy and I much rather be here talking to you that swiping the floors, so I’m glad to be here
[00;02;23] Caxixi: Before we jump to the interview, how people can find you on social media and website?
Soquete:
Instagram: @kadara_capoeira_canada – Follow them Here
@professor_soquete – Follow them Here
Facebook:
Kadara Capoeira Toronto – Scarborough Like them Here
Soquete Capoeira – Follow him Here
Website – http://kadaracapoeira.ca check their work Here
I really like that website because it is very easy to remember, like for people that do capoeira can be like “oh is just learcapoeira.ca” is easy for them to find it.
Soquete: that’s exactly why I put it together that way because when you’re promoting capoeira outside of Brazil and English speaking country some time I show ” associacao Kadara capoeira Mestre Cicatriz, end then has other words in the back nobody can read any of it so even when we do public demonstration and shows we have a shirt that just says a big capoeira right on in and says Kadara Toronto on the back learnCapoeira.ca and a pictures, because that all people need to see, they don’t need to read all the other things so is simple for them to get that idea and everybody is taking photos these days anyway right, and they are posting it so is the best way to get out there, simply and easily
Caxixi: yeah that way people just I mean they can learn names and all those stuff once they start practicing and all that stuff.
[00;04;45] Caxixi: Tell us a little bit of your capoeira story?
Soquete: so I guess my journey pretty much started in 1986 I started training a martial art and it was literally was 5 house down from where I lived, so I just walked to class 10/11 years old kid then did that for 3 and a half years and then that academy moved away then a taekwondo school came in I training that for about 3 and a half years before I joined the Australian navy it’s been a few years doing the military work and when I got out I was living in Sidney, and I saw that movie only the strong in the middle of 1996. and that was before google right and you have amount of people saying the same thing it took months of me speeding the word with everybody within the fitness industry and saying “hey if you have been this stuff I wanna learn it” one day this guy came in out down a flyer on the table of my work in the lunch room, and he said “is this it?” and it was a picture of a guy doing an Au Batido in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and I was like “that’s it” and I went to class that same day
Caxixi: is like destiny came right straight to you
Soquete” yeah it was amazing, and so I trained there for a couple of years and when I meet Mestre Cicatriz it was like going from elementary teacher to a university professor, the way thing were broken down, the way he understood the martial concepts the way he held the group together, the way he had… the energy about him it was were I needed to band I have been with him ever since. The group came through a few name changes, but our lineage has always been the same, my Mestre is always Mestre Cicatriz.
[00;13;38] Caxixi: Why Soquete?
Soquete: The apelido?… I have normally large, thighs, calves, my lower limbs are much heavier than my upper body, so Mestre says very big and very heavy is like a, in Rio the Soquete is what the use to smash and pound like a motor postal thing right, so Mestre was like “your legs are big and strong” and he was like “if you hit somebody with that” and I was like “man I don’t wanna hit anybody Mestre”… Too old for that, but yeah that how I got it, is funny, I like it and is unique, but a lot of people because is a colloquial term for the Soquete a lot of people from Brazil are like “why Soquete, why Soquete”.
[00;15;20] Caxixi: how do you attack people? or how do you sell your idea to people that have never done capoeira before?
Soquete: so yeah, finding people or bring new people in that don’t have exposure to capoeira it’s a modern digital age if people know about capoeira and they wanna come, they google it if we are closer and they like what they see, they do their research they come in, and finding people that never heard about capoeira and educating them about the art form is my favorite part of bringing people in, there is a street festival here in Scarborough Calle the taste of Lawrence festival and every year so like 1 hr., 45 minutes show demonstration and when we do shows our focus is really on education so is not just set up a roda then jump around, flip around, hands out flyer and go, we do batucada, we do Maculelê, we do capoeira, we do solos, but the whole thing becomes an experience where I take the time to explain this is batucada, this is where it comes from, this is how it is used and I say ok let me do Maculelê “a dance do guerreiros” so I take a lot of time to explain the history the art, I give a separate component during the show just for the music and explain the berimbau, explaining the instruments, to explain how the music tells stories, how there is history and metaphor and lessons, to learn to the music and morals to pass on then we do the capoeira.
[00;23;15] Caxixi: how do you advertise?
Soquete: yeah we do the promo and the demos and are always great working into schools is a great opportunity if you get to do that, I just do some Facebook marketing a little bit of Instagram marketing not as much as I could or should I haven’t done it for a while we go through face where every couple of months we do an intro day, Saturday afternoon, promote for couple of weeks or month or so, and get a bunch of people in because somebody or must people don’t want to be the only newbie so if you can get 15 – 20 people in doing an introduction to capoeira again use that as an education to this is where it comes from here is a basic movement that is a kick, here is a basic movements that is an escape we all gonna do a cartwheel and we are gonna do a vengativa so something, something for offensive, something for defensive a floor movement of some kind and acrobatic movement of some kind.
[00;26;05] Caxixi: how do you get into schools? or how do you structure peppers?
Soquete: a lot of the school stuff that I have managed are from one obvers and some of them are from some kind of connection or an email that comes to me but I have some connections through the Toronto school board that have explained to me that some schools board have like a preferred clients list or a prefer performance list that they would get to come in and do things for the school board, because is easy for the school board auto rice the checks and stuff like that.
[00;42;40] Caxixi: where do you find those interactive games?
Soquete: some of the games are inspired by other teachers or other moments I had one of the must important, little kid’s game that I play, that’s my first go to I learned from Mestre in Belo Horizonte when I was there in 2010, Mestre Bimba and contra Mestra Guerreira and they teach A lot of kid’s classes and they just have this lithe simple game, with the pandeiro they play and it’s called “the response” and the kids do their little movements and everybody follows everybody else and is a catchy little song that they sign and I was like “that’s gold I’m going to take that” and then at the same workshop, the same event there where another Mestre who taught a lot stuff with ropes and it was interesting and funny to me because the workshop was Mestre Hulk, and I was like “oh this big real tough legendary guy I can’t wait to do his workshop” and we did an hour and a half of kids class stuff and he was like “community, we got to make sure that when we are teaching the kids and making them grow” and we did a lit stuff with the rope across the room and I was like impress again, this great concept in how when you give sternal drill with the rope, over and under the rope, you can’t get it wrong and end up on the right side of the rope so having a visual and physical barrier.
[00;51;05] Caxixi: do you have any project going on right now or planning any batizado?
Soquete: our batizado this year is gonna be July 20, so I just put my Facebook event to save the date, I’m still working on some guests stuff but it would be a great year is the first that I have 2 students that started training with me back in 2011 when I started here and they’re getting the graduado cord.
Register to Kadara’s batizado Here
Facebook event Here
[00;54;30] Caxixi: what do your advice those instructors out there?
Soquete: advice to teachers, that’s a challenging one, a wise man once said to me “nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care”
so, you need to create, or I be alive you need to create environments where is open and it’s welcoming and is fun and is friendly
[00;58;28] Caxixi: what kind of advice would you give to capoeiristas in general?
Soquete: uhm… I don’t feel that I have the right to speak to capoeiristas, in general, I’m just a professor… love what you do, loving what you do is really important easy for people to get jetted this happen, people to allow politics into group things to get into their way of enjoyment of the art.
[00;00;00] Caxixi: contact information?
Soquete:
Instagram: @kadara_capoeira_canada – Follow them Here
@professor_soquete – Follow them Here
Facebook:
Kadara Capoeira Toronto – Scarborough Like them Here
Soquete Capoeira – Follow him Here
Website – http://kadaracapoeira.ca check their work Here
Caxixi: Thank you!
Whatup capoeira nation! Inst. Caxixi here, thank you so much to the capoeira community that has been supporting this work, it is very motivating for me knowing that out there are people willing to help our capoeira community, if you don’t know who I am yet, I want to invite you to listen to episode 01 of the podcast, there you can learn who I am and how I got here. Alright, let’s roll.
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Today I have the huge pleasure to interview a very good capoeirista, hard worker and passionate with Capoeira! He has dedicated his whole life to capoeira, successfully growing kids and adults capoeira classes since 2000 in Boston, Massachusetts, having great designs for the website, Instagram and Facebook, and I know we can learn a lot from him, let me introduce you to Mestre Chuvisquinho from Sinha Capoeira!
How are you doing Mestre?
Before we jump to question and information, tell us your social medias:
Website Here
Facebook Here
Instagram Here
[00:02:54] Caxixi: How did you got to capoeira? Start however you want.
M. Chuvisquinho: ok, this could take the time you know! Well, my name is Lindemberg Desouza, I was born in Belo Horizonte, Capital of Mina Gerais, Brazil in 1979, 40 years ago! It’s been awhile, I’m the third generation of capoeirista in my family, yeah everything started with my grandfather and then my father and then myself, my entire life it was capoeira, and still is, capoeira is a strong force that I have within myself like many other capoeirista you know, since childhood capoeira was there, it was present. I was raised for my grandmother which is my father’s mom and she was one of the biggest motivators in my capoeira journey, and my Mestre which is my father as well, he was a young capoeirista that went after his dreams, knowing his believes, and working hard in Mina Gerais in a strong school and I was living with my grandma and she used to take me to capoeira. When I was 9 years old I used to gather the kids on the streets and teach them capoeira, I was 9 years old. And then years went by, life was happening and when the teens age hit, I was going to different roda all by myself going after capoeira you know I was on my teens and I was living capoeira to the best, of course, those are the years of the troubles, you know, he kind of disagree with all my adventures, and life happens you know, just training capoeira, living capoeira came from a very humble childhood you been raised by my grandma wasn’t a lot of easy path however I’m very grateful.
[00:10:02] Caxixi: how did you get the Chuvisquinho nick name?
M. Chuvisquinho: Chuvisquinho, because my Mestre, you know Chuvisco and Chuvisquinho.
[00:10:38] Caxixi: you are a good example to a lot of capoeiristas out there, including me, on how to grow our classes. On growing a class, how do you sell capoeira to the public or how do you catch their attention?
M. Chuvisquinho: you know is interesting I get this question a lot I believe because we have, we did have a strong work here in Massachusetts but I always come up with the same answer, if you do anything with love man you are on the right track because I don’t go to my classes and I’m like “ugh another day this is just a class because this is what I do for living so I need to be here” no I love, I literally love what I do I teach you know a small class with 3 students, 5 students, still you know 22 years later and I’m still passionate about what I do.
[00:21:31] Caxixi: how do you keep that motivation to keep the mindset to keep coming to class?
M. Chuvisquinho: every time I go to class to me is an opportunity to sharpen my tool as a teacher, as a Mestre de capoeira, as an artist, as a person, every time I go to class is an opportunity for me to sharp tool as you know all these elements, right, and I need to get to my students that’s the experience that they have up to that point so every class is better that one that passed, it’s a simple formula in my way of seeing if you go to a restaurant, you enjoy the food, and you are like “wow this food is pretty good” so automatically what are you gonna do?
Caxixi: come back to the place!
M. Chuvisquinho: come back to the place, you are gonna go again, and what are you gonna tell if you are home with your family and they say “let’s go out to eat” what is gonna be the first reaction?
Caxixi: oh, let’s go to this place, this place was pretty good, that’s true!
M. Chuvisquinho: so is the same understanding, you know anything to me that it’s extremely important and it’s initial for me in many years in capoeira or any other art but I’m talking about capoeira because that’s my art, right, our art, is how you treat people, understand it’s how you treat people, so you wanna be in an environment where people treat you well, where you feel you are important there, so I always tell my students you guys are the reason for my motivation to be in class every single day, they are my main motivation because I need to do better for them if I’m doing good for my students automatically I’m doing good for my own self, I’m doing for my school, I’m doing good for capoeira.
[00:32:08] Caxixi: Do you have any kind of marketing aspect or like strategies that you use for your classes?
M. Chuvisquinho: you knee is kind of interesting because I get that a lot, people are like Mestre I look at your pictures and your classes are always full you have a pretense in social media I get that a lot but in reality I don’t think I don have nothing different then everyone else, I don’t think I do anything different that you do, or someone else does, you know I do put effort in what I do, I do put love in what I do, I’m very picky, people that work with me they know that is tough to work with me because I’m extremely picky, extremely like different level, people that work with me have been working with me for 10, 11 years, I don’t like to be changing you know, from the one that does my uniform to the person that does my art work, I don’t like to be switching professionals I find a good professional and I’m gonna stick with him, because he understands my language with time, and he understands what I’m looking for.
[00:47:36] Caxixi: do you have an LLC or nonprofit entity?
M. Chuvisquinho: you need to have a structure right, we have our work in different part of Boston so we have a noon profit organization and we have a business as well, because you need to have it otherwise everything is on the air, right everything is on the air, if I go to a big company, if I go to a big institution and I want to create a partnership with that institution and they look at me as a person they are going to be like “ok well bye we are not doing it” so we do have a structure, but as I said, this is not new, everybody does that, is how you run, the difference to me, the X factor is how you handle, you probably have more knowledge that I do in this aspect but how you handle that, same understanding give you a bunch of vegetables this and that but you don’t know how to prepare a salad.
[01:10:31] Caxixi: are you planning on having an event next year, uncontrol de bombast?
M. Chuvisquinho: yet we have encontro de bambas every year it always happens either on the last weekend of November or first week of December, it’s a good event, good energy, good people
[01:16:53] Caxixi: how do you keep your self-motivation?
M. Chuvisquinho: you know it’s an interesting question, because capoeira is something so inside of me Caxixi, capoeira is something so strong inside of me, I don’t think I need external factors to motivate me, I like to wake up and do my own training, I like to wake up – I’m a coffee person, a cup of coffee, I like waking up in the morning, have a cup of coffee, go through my music, go through my writings, because I like to write a lot, but I don’t think I have that need of that external factor to motivate me in capoeira.
[01:19:31] Caxixi: What kind of advice do you have for those that don’t practice capoeira?
M. Chuvisquinho: you don’t know how cold the water is, the ocean is, until you step in it, that’s it.
[01:19:31] Caxixi: What about the ones that practice capoeira?
M. Chuvisquinho: “trata capoeira com carinho” – Treat capoeira with respect, treat capoeira with care, a capoeira e verdadera, capoeira is real, she is real, capoeira is not alike, you should treat capoeira with care she will treat you with care.
[01:20:00] Caxixi: repeat your social medias again?
Website Here
Facebook Here
Instagram Here
M. Chuvisquinho: Like my grandma used to say “knowledge doesn’t take space, what is the value of knowledge if is not to be shared”
Thank you for your time!
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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
Instagram here @jessimateran
