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11 Prof Espirito Grupo Ginga da Alma

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What up capoeiristas, welcome back to The Capoeira Experience Podcast, where you are going to learn about the Capoeira community, where all of you are more that welcome to express your experiences because we all got experience, so that being said, on today’s episode we have a guest form Europe, he teaches in the Netherlands, he is from Grupo Ginga da Alma… Welcome to the podcast Prof. Espirito.

Caxixi: How are you doing man?

Espiritu: I’m doing fine man! what up!!

Caxixi: I like to start with capoeira stories.

Espiritu: I started capoeira late 1997 in the Netherlands a lot people from my generation were not Brazilian, grew up with a movie – really bad movie, only the strong, I saw later when I read about capoeira, but my introduction to Capoeira was from a tv commercial, from a Nokia cellphone, Nokia commercial and what I can remember there were 2 people on a beach dressing white and making beautiful movements you know, I was mesmerizes I was like “what? what is this?” because since my youth I grew up in martial arts like karate aikido, you know, did some gymnastic, and already did some crazy stuff on my own, jumping around you know, my mom going crazy, she was just like “just go outside and do your thing” but when I saw the commercial, I was like “what is this” because I didn’t have any knowledge about it “what is this” and I was memorizing by it, and also in that time I also was into gaming and 3 fighting games at that time, was street fighter, mortal combat, and tekken you know, you know tekken?

Caxixi: oh tekken! yeah yeah when tekken just came out, yeah Eddy Gordon of course!

Espiritu: yeah yeah I already had tekken, then tekken II, and then I was waiting for tekken III because I knew I like tekken III, and I bought tekken 3, and there was a character, you know the character, and I was like “oh is new so let me choose the character” Eddy Gordon, so what the hell is this, and I was meshing the buttons and was like, “eehh what is this this is awesome” I recognized it this is the same thing that I saw on television you know.

Caxixi: what kind of benefits does have capoeira bring to your life? like some positive influence on your life?

Espiritu: Friends, family you know, you travel a lot to different places you meet people that share the same thing also being secure about myself and be less aggressive because back in the days, and not because I was aggressive but I had a temper capoeira helped me, yeah self-control you know be more aware of my surroundings, be more aware of people you know and yeah it helped me a lot specially meeting people you know and sharing, and yeah self-control and be happy.

Caxixi: how do you like the capoeira community in Europe?

Espirito: so far I didn’t go everywhere in Europe but what’ve seen what’ve been through, the capoeira community in Europe is good, like you said people are ore knowledgeable also about capoeira you know they are seeking they are hungry no just for capoeira itself, also the community, the community part of capoeira you know.

Caxixi: How did you get your nick name? when and how?

Espirito: ok, first when you started capoeira I was the only black guy in the class, I was the youngest in the class so my teacher back then, because I have several teachers, he came with the name feijao, I didn’t know it meant back then “oh feijao, nice nice” so I went with then they started calling me feijao, and I started asking what does that means that means Bean and I was “oh alright” like feijao preto. I was the only black guy but I also was the only guy that could jump and do crazy stuff because my gymnastic background you know, so jumping bean, feijao, alright whatever you know, I think I got call that name on 1998 or something 1999 but it was not official it was not during a batizado the teacher wanted to separate from that thing you know from his own group we weren’t part of a bigger organization big association was just a own small group.

Caxixi: how do you like about teaching?

Espiritu: the main thing, is to seeing people being happy, thing like I show you something I will help you and if I see and smile, I like it.

Caxixi: What are your social medias? or how people can find you?

Instagram:

Ginga Da Alma Here

Prof. Espiritu Here

Facebook:

Bernardo Lendore Here

Ginga da alma Here

Website Here

Caxixi: Do you have any event coming up, or are you planning something for 2019

Espiritu: yes, this coming June 14, 15 and 16 of June we have our Capoeira festival, I will make an event on Facebook (here) and I will post on social media you know.

Caxixi: What Advice would you give to Capoeiristas out there?

Espiritu: play with a smile, sometimes we have that series game face, whenever we are playing you know, sometimes people forget to smile to be a kid in a big playground when you go in the roda, when you are playing in the roda be happy that you get to playing the roda be happy that you are able to play with one of your idol

Thank you so much!

10 Inst Quebrado CBLA

What up capoeiristas! Inst. Caxixi here! Like I always say, everyone has a spot in this podcast, doesn’t matter your level, where you come from, doesn’t matter what is your group or even if you don’t do capoeira, that’s valid too, all I want to do is help OUR capoeira community. So today I have the pleasure to have one of my hommies from LA! I met this guy my very first time I went to LA in 2013, we have been following each other journey since then and I am very excited to go back to see you and play some capoeira with you again and do your class, today I want to introduce you to Inst. Quebrado from Capoeira Brasil LA!..

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Before we start, what are your social medias or how people can find you?

Instagram Here

Instagram Classes in Burbank Here

Facebook Here

Website Here

[00:05:50] Caxixi: Speaking about social media, dude I see that you are killing it on social media man!!… Tell us what are you tricks man! how do you make so much noise in social media?

Quebrado: I think with social media it’s really tricky my point I have no idea what I’m doing, is working sometimes it doesn’t work sometimes it does work really good you gotta know what they want they are waiting for something that they wanna see, they are waiting for that cool trick, or they are waiting for that moment in the roda and then hashtags help a lot, #Capoeira #CapoeiraBrasil #Rio #SaoPaulo #Brazil #berimbau #Africa #axe is like different hastangs a lot of people that I know, sometimes I do it go a research #Capoeira and go over 100 post and see who is doing what and like people’s hashtag with #Capoeira.

[00:08:11] Caxixi: so, lets jump back on time for a sec here, and tell me a little bit of your story man, how did you get into capoeira?

Quebrado: in 2006 I moved to America to California from Lebanon, from an Armenian family, Armenian descents, no capoeira, we only had people in breakdancing and hip-hop, I was always active I was like 8 years old and I had my own hip-hop class and it was like no space like underneath in a building that wasn’t built yet I had like 3 students like couple years younger than me they paid me with like a chocolate or half a dollar you know with coins stuff that I never took a class before I just liked the movement I kind of follow and followed this guy he was a really good hip-hop dancer back in Lebanon, he’s still kind of famous right now he is a dancer big choreographer so I kind of started hip-hop with him and we started breakdancing as a whole group of good friends like 6 or 7 of us so we go together we train together and I was kind of dedicated you know I wanted to be good at it, I was a little more chubbier and I just wanted to do something and stick with it and a month or two later they were all gone nobody stayed there and then was me and the teacher this is amazing is like private right now, the I started to getting better breakdancing, and then I started b-boying more and more, 2004, 2005, and then at 2006 moved to California actually I’ve seen capoeira once in Lebanon, in the dance school there were couple morocco guys, from morocco, and they just showed up and I think there were dancers that they’ve done capoeira before then, I remember them so well and they just came in the were b-boy and by that time they came together, and then they were “oh Brazilian moves” and then that was it, it was just a small memory.

[00:12:10] Caxixi: Why Quebrado?

Because of breakdancing, so the first few months I mean I was tough with myself I was going through a lot I didn’t know how to communicate with other people I was very shy I kind of only talked to Pavao a Chegado at the beginning I was very timid and after class I always wait to everybody to leave then I used to breakdance and I used to train and they looked at me and then “oh the breaker” and the breaker translate to broken and got translated to Quebrado.

[00:16:14] Caxixi: where have you travel?

Quebrado: this past year as did go to Bali, to capoeira me leva with Mestre Pedro, also went to Japan to capoeira Batuque events, and then I went to Lebanon, to see family and did capoeira as well, this was last year, and the following year Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico, I don’t even consider Mexico because Mexico is right here.

I like to travel, I like to travel, if capoeira can be part of the travel it’s even more amazing and for capoeiristas I think traveling is really really important, and no matter what level you are no matter if you are invited as a guest or you are student or your friend is having and event, traveling helped me a lot to grow.

[00:35:55] Caxixi: any event coming up for you? Local at your class?

Yes! Local events yes, so in December I hosted Mestre Itabora it was amazing, so that event with Mestre Itabora getting to know him personally more and share his energy, share his story, I couldn’t even, how you say it? is priceless, spend time with anybody as a person with that much energy that much love for the art that much he does for the community I was very privileged for him even to be in my place in my house a share a few hours with us and I’m very thankful for him and I would love to keep going, I’m very thankful with the community, because their supporting.

In March 16, is Saturday I’m hosting a workshop with Instra. Foquina and Instra. Borracha they both capoeira brasil green cords and green cords are dope!

[00:39:54] Caxixi: Mestre Boneco events is coming up when?

last week of September is the 28th 29th, 29th is the batizado but our event usually starts on Tuesday nights, last year was amazing, amazing diversity.

[00:41:50] Caxixi: What advice do you have for beginners?

I mean capoeira has change my life, and still is changing my life, at work I still think that I’m in the roda, and right now my mission for beginners is nothing fancy like I said at the beginning of the podcast I don’t them to do crazy floreios and helicopters and flips, I just want them to enjoy capoeira which it mean capoeira just coming to class ginga, kick and Esquiva and them to do that for long time if they do stick with it for long time and become consistent their life is gonna change when committing to something.

[00:45:11] Caxixi: you mentioned couple of time, fir the last question, during the whole conversation you mentioned couples of time that capoeira has change your life what do you think or where did you change?

change in life is how I think how I feel you know I mean places that I’ve been people that I’ve met, someone like you I would never do this podcast if we have never met.

Thank you so much man!

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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05 CM Bambu Axe Capoeira Chicago

Whatup capoeiristas!!! I’m your host Inst. Caxixi and today we have the pleasure of having Contra Mestre Bambu from Axe Capoeira Chicago! very happy to get the pleasure of having him today, CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS NEW ACCOMPLISHMENT by the way!!

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[00:01:00] – Caxixi: You can start from how you saw capoeira for the first time, or your capoeira story pretty much.

CM Bambu: I started capoeira in 1998, I started a lot like most of the more American of people foreign from Brazil, on movies, “only the strong” I saw a preview for that, in the movie theaters, then later I saw it in video games, then other couple cultural outlets, got me interested, I always wanted to do martial arts as a kid, my parents never put me into it because it was a lot of money, we didn’t have a lot of money back at that time, they didn’t think I was stick with it because as a kid I wanted to do something and the next week I wanted to do something else. Then they did when I finally move away from home for school originally, there happen to be a capoeira class at the university, which is Indiana University, yeah they had a little group there so I have the opportunity to start my brother started before me, he really liked it so I kind of joined in, it was a small school just students, no real teacher, no real master, just a group of people who like capoeira, that got together, who has some teaching and training from other people in the past.

[00:03:04] – CM Bambu: then we met a guy, he said there was an event in Chicago, with a local group here and then we came up to participate in the event, in the workshop, and then from there I met my Mestre, Mestre Barrao, I met him here, he was just a guest, end we talked to him about wanting to find a master to pursue our training with an actual Master in Capoeira.

[00:10:30] – CM Bambu: For Capoeira I felt that kind of passion, I feel that I feet with the right group, with the right Mestre, that push mu forward. this day I feel in debt it to him because he believe in me and he out his seal on me, without know anything about me, in the time when people outside of Brazil, where not necessarily seen good for capoeira, I even on of this events when I was in Chicago with one respected Mestre that I would look up too a lot, and we had on of this Q&A session, where we seat down and talk with them, and one of the other Mestre told me that I gotta be careful because everybody was looking at me like with jealousy, when you play capoeira you have to be careful, they always say be careful because people are looking at you, and I felt a little bit like “why are they looking at me” and he said well maybe because you are no Brazilian.

[00:22:12] – CM Bambu: My master, he is a friend, he is a father, he is a teacher, he is to me, I don’t know what it would be without him, and when I see people that sometimes they leave the group to go somewhere else to have another Master, I don’t know how I can ever consider myself or someone else my Master, because the bond that I have with this person, he is the one that thought me how to the culture, about the dances, about capoeira, how to play, how to fight, how to ginga, how to do this, how to do that, and he is the one still guiding my way of life.

[00:38:14] – Caxixi: when you have to be at the school you gotta take care of financials part too, for example you still gotta pay rent for studio and all that stuff, what do you think about the part of the business of capoeira, what do you think about that?

CM Bambu: I was discussing with my wife recently because we were talking about samba schools and I think it a difference in between building a business around spreading Brazilian Culture and using a Brazilian Culture to create a business, I think it is a difference in that kind of wording so I think if you are try basically take advantage of a nitch like everybody wants to do capoeira now, oh in the movies so we are gonna do a capoeira stunts class or these kind of stuff is kind of that’s using capoeira and taking part just to use for something else that stuff is what I don’t agree with, but if the goal is to spread capoeira, to make sure capoeira has a future and make sure the history and the culture does die with the times then of course I can feel like, why not? I consider myself a professional, I’m a professional athlete in capoeira, I spent 20 years training, I training every day, I work out I do all this thing, why is it different, why should I not be paid for my services, for my work? I feel like I have a lot to offer, and I feel like any one who is dedicated that life and that time to capoeira and putting and giving back to the culture not just I’m doing this for myself, I do this, and I give back to the culture.

Social Media:

Website: http://www.axechicago.com/

Instagram: @axecapoeirachicago @Professor_Bambu

Facebook: Axe Capoeira Chicago https://www.facebook.com/axecapoeirachicago/

Contra Mestre Bambu https://www.facebook.com/axebambu/

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01 How everything started – Solo

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What up everyone I am you host Harly Materan AKA Instructor “Caxixi”. Right now I am a Capoeira Brasil Instructor located in Indianapolis, under the supervision of Mestre Kim, if you don’t know who Mestre Kim is, check our website out “https://www.capoeiraindy.com/” and I have a short info about him right there, our you can check a lot of his music on YouTube, so he is one of the oldest students of Mestre Paulao do Ceara which is one of the 3 founders of Capoeira Brasil.

Show Notes:

By then in 2001 I was 15 years old, [00:06:13] I was very very introverted kid, and because of that on that exact same day I knew it about the class I talked to one of my friend, his name is Leonardo so he could go with me because I was shy to show up by myself right, then when I talked to him I was like “dude you gotta see this stuff that Miguel’s brother and his friends were doing at school man they were doing a bunch of movements, hand stands and back flips dude, the classes are in the university and Miguel said that he can take us to the class on Tuesday so we gotta wait for him at 3:30 because class is at 4” and Leonardo said “dude that sounds fun!! yeah man I will go with you don’t worries!!”, then that Tuesday came, I called Leonardo, I would say around 2:30, like 20 times man, and nothing, then I was like “you know what I don’t care I’m just gonna go, nothing is gonna happen”…

[00:10:24] But let me tell you this!!, I don’t know if it was destiny, but I walked for about 6 minutes and I walked right straight to the capoeira class!! how crazy is this right?!

[00:11:30] I remember perfectly so they were seating on the ground in a circle practicing a capoeira song that the instructor was teaching at that moment, I remember the song was “malandragem” [If you want to listen to the song click here]

[00:15:52] I was super super happy because I just felt good, I just had a feeling that even today after 17 years I can’t even explain!!

[00:16:09] After that day, my entire life, and I really mean that my entire life change 360 degrees. Classes was from 4 to 6 for beginners, the roda was about 5:40 and for me it was time to go home, and I still remember some of those days I saw the roda for my first time like at 5:50 then I went running home because my mom!!… Then one day I was like “meh just a little longer” then one day I saw the time and I was already leaving by 6pm and my mom was super mad at me, but I was very very happy haha I was doing something I really liked, something that make me feel free, makes me feel where I can be myself!!

[00:18:50] How I got caxixi as my capoeira nick name

[00:21:20] I made so many friends!!! Friends that I still have till today, some of them, some of them have leave this plain and are play capoeira with all those bad asses masters!!

I went to Brazil just a couple of times, I would looove to go more ooobviously!!… My first time I went to a small town right passing the border of Venezuela with Brasil, called Boa Vista, we did capoeira all week long, I don’t really remember if we went there for 1 or 2 weeks, I think 2. And my second time I went to a different state called Piaui to the city called Teresina, by then I stayed there for about 5 weeks, it was awesome, capoeira since day one till the very last day, THE FOOD WAS AWESOME!! I actually gain a few pounds haha.

[00:26:55] if you are listing to me right now, and you are trying to teach, don’t give up man, try, keep doing it, kkep rocking it, but you gotta go out there, you gotta keep trying.

[00:31:53] What do you like about teaching?

[00:32:10] I always believe that Capoeira was created from a group of people to help others!! I think today’s day we are understanding this, that helping each other is better, that come together and have fun doing what we all love makes life a beautiful thing, and

[00:32:37] that is why I came up with the creation of this podcast, a way to help each other to connect, to learn even more, to open up more our horizon, use technology to help each other, to connect each other, connect our hearts, to give all this love that we have for capoeira to capoeira.

[00:33:02] Capoeira has so much to offer to our countries, to our society, to our communities, to our friends, to our family to everyone! and I can tell you this… I’m a living proof that capoeira can help people to improve anything in their life, like it did to me, I was a veeery very shy person, I didn’t use to make eye contact with people, I never said hi to anyone, I was that kid that sat a the very far corner, don’t talk, don’t move, I just did my class then went home. Capoeira helped me to feel better with myself, to believe on myself, to really believe that I am worthy and I don’t need to put myself in a bubble, and like me, out there are many people that I am 100% sure capoeira help them with so many positive changes!!

I really think if we have a very good internal organization, and very good structure we can make a living out of what we love, we just gotta find the right tools and the right way to do the stuff, and I am talking about the business part of this, legal structure, how to file our taxes, what kind of business insurance, how to approach corporate business in order to make some projects, all that needs a structure, nothing like that is gonna happen just because we know how to play berimbau, we gotta go beyond that, read, learn, ask but most importantly, take actions for it!

If one day you are in town, reach out to me to “capoeiraIndianapolis@gmail.com” and let’s train, let’s play capoeira, let’s have a chat and I will also have you as my guest here in our podcast so people out there can know your perspective and your experiences with capoeira and how it is helping you or how it helped you!!

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