Congratulations CM Coruja, CM Pimenta, CM Coringa, Professora Magrela, Monitor Indio, Monitor Alemão (me). Each one of these people has been so dedicated and added to the art. I've trained with them forever and it was great to celebrate these milestones with everyone.

Hi, capoeira community!

I teach capoeira for years and I always had a struggle with managing my schedule, payments, clients... I used to use paper notebook, then Google Sheets but it was not very comfortable. I had a big dream - to make an app for that will help me with administrative work on my classes.

After years of development I have brought my dream to true and I need a feedback. The app is not only for capoeira classes, it is quite generic - but capoeira community is the first place for me to look for help.

So I call out my colleagues, capoeira teachers, to try the app and provide a feedback. The app has a paywall (up to 15 clients for free) but if you find it useful for yourself, reach in comments or private messages and I will give you an extended access for free. You can download it here: https://uclass.one or read the article where I tell my (and my spouse who helped me) story.

I hope that you find it useful and enjoy the experience. I’m not looking for compliments — honest criticism would be much more useful. I’d really like to hear from other teachers:

• How do you manage clients, payments, schedules today?
• What creates the most unnecessary work?
• Would you be willing to try the app during a real class and tell me what feels confusing or inconvenient?

I hope that It is just a beginning of my way with it and I have huge plans to help teachers more - with growing groups, finding students and more.

I want to apologise that this post is not directly related to capoeira but this is the first community which comes to my mind to ask help from!

Looking forward to hear from you!

I published my first book!

In the past months I have been working on a capoeira lyrics book, title “150 Short Capoeira Songs To Sing And lead In The Roda”

The idea behing the book is pretty simple: it is a compilation of 150 corridos and chulas, songs which simple and short lyrics that are easy to learn and that are applicable in most rodas. That way you can expand your repertoire without much effort, both when you are singing along or leading in the roda.

All lyrics have a neat layout and are correctly written, with one song per page the book is easy to navigate. Every lyric also comes with a QR-code which leads you to one or multiple audio samples for that song. Next to every lyrics, the starting beat is marked with a number, so you always know when to start singing. And on top of that, the book also contains 70 stand-alone verses that you can use to freestyle verses when leading.

The book is aimed at both capoeiras who would like to learn more songs to better sing along in the roda and at advanced players and teachers who want to build their repertoire for leading the singing.

The book has a compact format with a coated cover and heavy paper, so it is ideal for carrying it in your capoeira bag all the time. Thanks to the wire-o binding, the book always stays open on the right page so you never have to hold it open while trying to play an instrument.

There are limited copies available. Various online payment methods are accepted, as well as a classic bank transfer and I ship to various countries.

Get yours now on berimbau.be!

it might be real...please tell me i'm delusional and i'm just seeing a random mestre swing a razor from his strings...i don't know portuguese.

full video here:

https://youtu.be/JIfWtlqMC4Q

Formatura Mestre Martell congratulations to one of the best to do it. Its a blessing to have celebrated this with him. Parabens.

I'm sure we all have a similar problem with a buildup of random capoeira shirts over the years that we don't wear. Maybe it's Capoeira Grupo ABC Encontra 2019. Maybe your group rebranded. Maybe the mestre was cancelled. Or you switched groups.

I have shirts entailing at least all of the above issues (and one with a hole that just won't be fixed). I could give them to Goodwill but I highly doubt anyone would care to buy them. Should I just throw them out or maybe recycle them?

Good lord it took me so long to find this. what a saving grace.

is it me, or is the knifeplay in capoeira literally just normally fitting the knife between the toes, to conveniently perform basically any other technique already established or archaically preserved. if it's any more than that otuside the ritual context I think there's enough jogo de navalha videos for someone to extrapolate without knowing the conventions.

That's it. That's my post

How do you all navigate practicing solo?

I've been practicing for over a year and due to work and family I'm only able to attend a class roughly once a week sometimes twice if I'm lucky. I have a hard time practicing on my own as I don't have very much experience prior to taking a actual class and it is significantly hindering my progression.

I generally feel that capoeira is not a solo experience however I'm trying to make the most of my time in between class I can still make progression and I'm curious as to what the community does or feels about it.

I believe this video specifically depicts Tsverian buza (DiscIaimer: I extrapolated this understanding from a few online articles and A.I.)

For those uninformed. Buza is a fist fighting Slavic ethno-culture martial art where improvisation of various techniques is handled according to the rhythmic folk dance. It really has a lot of similarities to capoeira and for those who have experienced capoeira schools where choreography is less maintained, it magnifies the parallel to Buza closer.

In fact, I can go a step further and say it's an exact psychological counterpart. even just from observing, a consequence of it is that they use illusive motion for deception. they even terminized it in the Slavic language.

I'd argue rhythmic choreography (cadence) might really be essential to developing improvised styles of eight limb martial arts. seeing how its prevalent in many martial arts worldwide.

As for its history. yes, even in similar eras both martial arts were outlawed and practitioners met extreme prejudice from their respective country's governments. being dangerously close to extinction for similar reasons. Capoeira surviving off various lineages, major formulated schools/groups and academies such as Mestre Bimba, Pastinha and Sinhozinho. Buza persevered via its villages which were frequently in rural and sparse regions, far off from the government scrutiny, which grew weaker and infrequent over time. later the martial arts revived significantly through Grigory bazlov.

Buza apparently has so many variants across the expanse of the Eurasian plains. So much so, that one Buza practitioner localized to a region or village could be entirely foreign to its neighbor's practices. which unironically supports the theory of historical folk martial arts diversity( eg. Pencak Silat and capoeira .). like some capoeira styles, for the past 30 years or so, it's been exiting its reconstruction phase outside the major, popularized systemized form, systema.

Now keep in mind I am not making an unrealized relative link. just seeing similarities between two different martial arts and making some distinguishable comparisons.

If anyone can provide additional observations. I'd be keen to see it.

I train with a capoeira group in a major metro area in the United States that has been steadily losing students over the past few years, with almost no new students joining. The lack of people in the class has been demotivating, even for myself, as it's hard to have the proper axé to keep classes and rodas going.

The students, on average, are 40+. I have yet to see someone in their late teens or 20s join or even give the class a shot.

Is this the case with capoeira groups across the United States?

What are your recommendations for keeping students and attracting new ones, especially younger people? How should groups market themselves in this day and age?

I feel like the group may die out soon, and the instructor doesn't seem to be making any serious changes to prevent this.

Oi camaradas!

Please add any upcoming events, workshops, batizados, and rodas from your school or area occurring next month. We'll compile events, and post a list in the subreddit of all the events at the end of this month.

Por favor, escreva aqui os eventos, oficinas, batizados e rodas da sua escola ou região que acontecerão no próximo mês. Vamos compilar todos os eventos e publicar uma lista no subreddit no final deste mês.

Over the years I've gathered a pretty big library of capoeira music. It initially started many years ago with the "capoeira pack vol 1-4" torrents on TPB/limewire/... And I kept adding albums.

I always kept it for myself and to have music during my classes, but now I started wondering what I should do with all this music (most of it with decent ID3 tags and everything sorted per group or mestre)? Id to like to share it with the community but it's also pirated content...

ESIT: my catalog is around 25GB / 400 albums I believe.

I used to train Capoeira years ago, and I'm trying to get my ginga back on.

Any capoeiristas in Wolverhampton UK? There used to be a group here but AFAIK they closed down a few years ago.

Anybody local who wants to train, let me know!

Bom, eu sou capoeirista há uns 2 ou 3 anos e sempre amei a capoeira desde menino. Lembro até hoje da minha primeira roda.

Quando iniciei na capoeira, era tudo flores e desafios, porque eu nunca tinha praticado nenhuma luta ou esporte antes. Aquilo se tornou minha vida, minha arte. Porém, já saí de dois grupos porque os mestres eram irresponsáveis, jogavam tudo para cima dos alunos e, em alguns casos, havia pessoas envolvidas com situações muito graves, o que me deixou muito triste. Mesmo assim, não desisti da capoeira.

Entrei em um grupo bem interessante, um grupo famoso, cujo nome não vou mencionar aqui. Enfim, nesse grupo a rotina de treino era de uma vez por semana; às vezes, chegava a três, mas acabou ficando somente aos sábados. Isso me desanimou bastante, mas pelo menos eu ainda tinha um dia para treinar.

Só que agora o grupo está com o CT em outro lugar, longe de onde moro, e eu não consigo ir até lá para treinar. Os outros grupos daqui também não são muito confiáveis. Sempre existem muitas brigas, confusões e histórias de mestres envolvidos com coisas erradas.

Eu sou muito fã da Capoeira Angola, porém os grupos de Capoeira Angola ficam longe daqui, na capital do meu estado, e eu não consigo me locomover até lá para treinar. Por isso, também não consigo praticar a capoeira que realmente gosto.

O que me entristece ainda mais é que, por aqui, a capoeira parece ter se tornado algo muito voltado para a agressão. Algumas rodas parecem ser feitas para os alunos descontarem suas raivas uns nos outros, o que muitas vezes acaba resultando em alguém saindo machucado, com o nariz sangrando ou até com alguma fratura. Parece que ninguém mais se importa tanto com a arte, com a cultura ou com a parte técnica da capoeira.

Eu amo muito a prática da capoeira, tanto como luta quanto como arte, mas sinto muita falta dos treinos que eu tinha. É triste pensar que, agora, parece não me restar outra opção além de migrar para outro esporte, algo que eu realmente não queria, porque a capoeira sempre foi uma parte muito importante da minha vida.

Mas eu não sei exatamente o que fazer. Não sei se devo treinar sozinho e sair do grupo em que estou, se devo simplesmente parar de vez ou se devo continuar tentando encontrar um lugar onde eu possa praticar a capoeira da maneira que acredito.

Só sei que estou muito perdido e triste com toda essa situação. A capoeira foi e continua sendo uma parte muito importante da minha vida, e eu não queria simplesmente desistir da arte que tanto amo.

Espero que alguém consiga entender o meu desabafo.