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20 Inst. Energia, Batuque Capoeira, Amsterdam

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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!!!

18 Profra. Saehee, Capoeira Batuque, LA

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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!!!

17 Inst. Caxixi – Tips and Trick to Learn Berimbau

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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.

Thank you listing!

15 Prof. Soquete Kadara Capoeira – Toronto, Canada

What’s up capoeira nation, Welcome back to the Capoeira Experience Podcast I’m your host Inst. Caxixi, if you guys don’t know who I am yet, go back to episode 01 and listen to a little bit of my story. Also, I want to say thank you so much to all the support and please help to get to more people so we can grow even more, and please don’ t forget to leave 5 stars and a nice a beautiful review.

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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.

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!

12 Canarinha – Capoeira Brasil Indianapolis “The wife, The student”

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.

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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

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!

02: Gugu Quilombola de luz [PORTUGUESE]

On today’s episod, we had the pleasure to do this interview to an amazing Capoeirista with a very good trajectory in Capoeira and Champion of the Red Bull Paranaue 2018, he talks about how capoeira is in Germany, Europe and around the world, he also shares with us some of his capoeira projects helping kids and also some of his knowledge and of course pieces of advice for us as well! I hope you enjoy!

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Caxixi: is my pleasure to have you here, I follow you on social media you have a very nice work I like your capoeira and I think that you have a very nice capoeira.

[00:01:40] : how is your story? How did you start in capoeira?

[00:01:45] : I can say that I have to path in capoeira, that is a formal and another informal, I am burned and raised in the central region of sao paulo, which is also called central periphery, and that was a well accustomed to capoeira, we had a mestre suasuna academy for example there in downtown sao paulo, we had a region of plaza republica, bela vista, santa cicilia, vila buarque there are many interconnected, they are neighborhoods in the downtown sao paulo, and there is also plaza republica, and always as a kid I was walking around those neighborhoods and that is the way I made some contacts with capoeira.

[00:05:40] : what was your age by then when you started?

[00:12:15] another question that I would like to ask you that have such a long-time doing capoeira, how do you think that capoeira can help our communities? Because my capoeira perspective, capoeira has so much to give, it is so so big, that can help a lot of people. How do you think capoeira can help communities?

[00:12:38] good, I can talk for myself, from my own experience concrete, I come also from communities, so I can say that I am an example and living proof that capoeira works, and it can help communities.

how do you think can help with something positive our communities, like projects, and stuff like that?

because the objective of our material is to reach and give out for those than do capoeira, and those that doesn’t do capoeira, so they can participate more in capoeira

very good!

so I think there is a lot of people that watch capoeira, mas they don’t know the strength that capoeira have, so that is pretty much my objective I want to do with all this, with the experience from all capoeiristas, like you that have a lot of experience and with those that don’t have a lot of experience, and how capoeira helps to transform them to better

very good! With capoeira you can work different aspect which can help humanity, like healthy people is better, so capoeira brings that, people with a good mind so through capoeira we can reach that faster, capoeira is perfect for the world.

[00:15:25] what do you think, because there is a lot of people that would like to make a living out of capoeira right? But culture is a good side of capoeira but to make a living you also must make money right, and what do you think about using capoeira as business to make it lucrative? Do you think that would help?

that’s part of the process, people must survive, no one would eat with thank you, or congrats, right?

*laugh* or hugs *laugh*

yeah, you won’t be able to live just with hugs, so yeah, I agree, people must be compensated, honored, make their money with the art, I really agree because today’s day what you can’t sell, you pay taxes for everything now *laugh* we have taxes for everything

the government wants to take their money first right! *laugh* and you will see how they can take more. So, I also think that we can do business with capoeira, because we can bring capoeira to those big companies like red bull, stuff like that, I think that also helps grows capoeira

for sure, that is right. Capoeira help in any area, and for sure it can help with capital as well, that is inevitable

[00:17:50] yeah, I believe that too, and how do you think capoeira is going there in Europe, there in Germany, do you think capoeira is growing over there?

yeah, capoeira continues developing in the entire world not just in Germany, not just in Europe, also in Asia, African countries and so on, this is how I believe, that capoeira goes with the timing, and it adapts with the time and helps the timing as well, and to provide, it will continues growing no matter where, the capoeira level in the entire world with no exceptions it’s already very very good! Any place in the world where you go, you can find very good capoeiristas

yeah, I really think that capoeira breaks all the barriers

that’s right!

I think this will be the last question, I think *laugh*

*laugh*

[00:24:11] good… Sometimes we are way too perfectionist, sometimes we want to do everything perfect, but this capoeira path is good because when preserve with the time when you couldn’t do that but you insisted, following instructions, continuing right, but you also have to be patience, capoeira teaches you to be patience, you have to have a little more patience, and one step at the time, respect time, the time will teach us too, so we don’t have how to quit, so we have to understand that, that we have to respect timing.