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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

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

@creativemovementbrazil

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 yo...

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

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 … Continue reading "18 Profra. Saehee, Capoeira Batuque, LA"

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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...

Whatsp up capoeira nation! welcome back to the capoeira experience podcast where you will learn more about capoeira, how to keep your motivation and much more information. Make sure you follow our social medias, we are everywhere! Instagram handle is: @PodcastCapoeira – click Here to follow Facebook is: Capoeira Podcast – click Here to follow … Continue reading "17 Inst. Caxixi – Tips and Trick to Learn Berimbau"

what’s up Capoeira Nation, welcome back to the Capoeira Experience Podcast where you are going to learn more about our Capoeira community and where you can express your experience, Thank you so much for your support, it means a lot to me and it helps me to stay motivated to keep doing this!

Alright, so on today’s episode I got the pleasure to interview a Capoeirista from Canada, he is doing capoeira since 2006 and he teaches in Calgary, Canada, I want to introduce you Inst. Gigante!

[00:42:05] Caxixi:

how are you doing man?

Gigante: good man,

how are you? thanks for having me

Caxixi: yeah yeah

of course, capoeira, that’s what I love about our capoeira community it brings

people together, even if we don’t know each other we still can come together

Gigante: yeah, a

100%

[00:00:56] Caxixi:

What are your social medias, how people can find you?

Gigante: yeah you

can reach me @giganteyyc” follow here

https://www.instagram.com/giganteyyc/?hl=en

Our group Instagram is @calgarycapoeira follow here

https://www.instagram.com/calgarycapoeira/?hl=en

Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/calgarycapoeira/

so, you can find us in Facebook and Instagram so you should

check it out

[00:01:15] Caxixi: tell me your story, how did you

start in capoeira, and you can start however you want

Gigante: alright, well like you said it, I started in 2006 and that’s when I started training kind of regular and full on but before that, I think one of the first time I was exposed to capoeira, I think I always knew about capoeira was that kind of breakdance fighting, everyone seems to know it like before they actually they do capoeira so I kind of always knew about it but I didn’t really over see it or kind of encounter it till one day I was in the university in another town and I came to Calgary to visit and we went to a bar and it was a night club and on the dance floor was crowded and then they announced it and the DJ goes “hey everyone clear the floor, clear the floor we have a performance coming out” and I was like “oh what is going on?” everyone is backed up they kind of push people at side to clear the a big area and then these break-dancers came out and then they do a routing and is super cool and everyone is like “yeah this is cool” and they go back and on the side somebody comes ding backhands spring, back hand spring flipped, crowd goes crazy and then soddenly everyone starts doing capoeira, and it was super cool like I said I knew what is was right away “that’s capoeira, that’s that thing “and you know I couldn’t tell you if I saw here or there.

[00:11:24] Caxixi: why Gigante?

Gigante: so yeah

instructor sap looked at me and he say “I think I have a name for

you” I was like ok what is this, I heard stories of like “hopefully

is not like embracing or something because you heard story about people that

get a name and then you have to live with it, so he is kind of on the other

side of the room he was like raising his hand this and then he was like “Gigante”

and I was like I think I know what that means so I was like that’s cool,

because I’m tall I guess.

[00:12:15] Caxixi:

do you have any kind of like training routine to get that flexible?

Gigante: I started doing stuff when I wasn’t even young when I was doing it,

what’s up Capoeira Nation, welcome back to the Capoeira Experience Podcast where you are going to learn more about our Capoeira community and where you can express your experience, Thank you so much for your support, it means a lot to me and it helps me to stay motivated to keep doing this! Alright, so … Continue reading "Ep. 16 Inst. Gigante Capoeira Collective Calgary Canada"